[Wild Coyote]

Hey Bizi! how are the restless legs?
If they continue, look into magnesium. Feel free to PM me.
Keep up the good work!

[bizi]

Originally Posted by Wild Coyote

Hey Bizi! how are the restless legs?
If they continue, look into magnesium. Feel free to PM me.
Keep up the good work!

I just had them one night thankfully. I have had them before but that was attributed to seroquel. I take 1,000mg of mag oxide for constipation. works great mostly.

Thank you for your support.
(((((((HUGS))))))
bizi

[~Christina]

Originally Posted by bizi

I cheated on my diet this evening at the homecoming football game.
Jeff was being presented as the distinguished professor of the year, and
We were on the 3rd floor VIP box with free food. I forgo the drinks hubby drank some gin and tonics.
And I ate: 2 red velvet cake balls, 3 spicy chicken salad pin wheels, one pork egg roll, 4oz of beef brisket and 1/2 cup of pineapple.
not too too bad.
I am not counting carbs....just watching them. I had gumbo for lunch. chicken and sausage it was good!
It was crisp out side so I wore long underwear and a turtle neck under a short sleeved shirt. warm socks. and a coat. I came with gloves but did not use them.
Jeff had on a short sleeve shirt, he thought he had a sweater in the car but did not.
We left before the final play...trying to beat traffic. Our team won for sure.
That will be the last foot ball game I attend.
I am not a fan.
I was happy to support Jeff since He did tell me that I had to go.
Bizi

Sounds like a nice night out you did good with food choices

[bizi]

We went to a BBQ open house for dinner tonight.
All university people, very nice. I had met many of them before.
We brought chantilly cake cup cakes and another kind of cake tres lechea (3 milks) that the whole foods baker highly recommended. no one tried it.
This is what I ate: Brats with sauerkraut and spicy mustard
were very good, as was the spinach dip with tiny cucumber slices. and 2 mini carrots.
I resisted the deserts they looked delicious! and I drank hot tea.
My social anxiety wasn't too bad.

bizi

[~Christina]

Originally Posted by bizi

We went to a BBQ open house for dinner tonight.
All university people, very nice. I had met many of them before.
We brought chantilly cake cup cakes and another kind of cake tres lechea (3 milks) that the whole foods baker highly recommended. no one tried it.
This is what I ate: Brats with sauerkraut and spicy mustard
were very good, as was the spinach dip with tiny cucumber slices. and 2 mini carrots.
I resisted the deserts they looked delicious! and I drank hot tea.
My social anxiety wasn't too bad.

bizi

You did good again with food choices. I’m not sure I could have reined myself in away from delicious desserts !

[Wild Coyote]

Originally Posted by bizi

I just had them one night thankfully. I have had them before but that was attributed to seroquel. I take 1,000mg of mag oxide for constipation. works great mostly.

Thank you for your support.
(((((((HUGS))))))
bizi

I am glad to read magnesium oxide works okay for you. It is the most difficult form to assimilate. Should you need more from magnesium, you might try magnesium citrate. The citrate formulation will very likely help more with constipation issues, by far. Love ya!!!

[bizi]

Originally Posted by Wild Coyote

I am glad to read magnesium oxide works okay for you. It is the most difficult form to assimilate. Should you need more from magnesium, you might try magnesium citrate. The citrate formulation will very likely help more with constipation issues, by far. Love ya!!!

Thanks dear.
I did not know that about the citrate. I take 2-3 mostly 3 capsules around 1250mg of the mag oxide....I would hate to mess with my routine.
I will definitely keep this in mind though.
You're a doll.
(((((((HUGS))))))
love bizi

[~Christina]

Ohhhhhh Citrate Mag ( shutter ) I was given 4 bottles of this, nasty lemon (gag ) flavor when I had a bowel blockage. I was lucky and didn’t need surgery, thank god but for a month I had to take 3 tablespoons a day.

I actually do keep a bottle in my fridge if things arent moving. More than 3 days with out a BM my Doctor told me drink at least half.

[Wild Coyote]

Originally Posted by ~Christina

Ohhhhhh Citrate Mag ( shutter ) I was given 4 bottles of this, nasty lemon (gag ) flavor when I had a bowel blockage. I was lucky and didn’t need surgery, thank god but for a month I had to take 3 tablespoons a day.

I actually do keep a bottle in my fridge if things arent moving. More than 3 days with out a BM my Doctor told me drink at least half.

Lol!

Oh, that stuff! Yuck!

it's possible to simply get magnesium citrate tablets/caps.
If this form of magnesium is not available, one might try magnesium gluconate.

Bizi, Exactly! Why fix what isn't broken!!!

[BeyondtheRainbow]

Originally Posted by ~Christina

Ohhhhhh Citrate Mag ( shutter ) I was given 4 bottles of this, nasty lemon (gag ) flavor

Cherry flavor is much, much better than lemon. Until I tried cherry I had to mix the lemon flavor with some sugar to get it down (yes, I used to have severe, chronic constipation as hard as that is to believe) but cherry I can handle fine with a straw and a very cold bottle of the stuff. There's also grape flavored but I've never tried it; it sounds bad to me.

[~Christina]

Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow

Cherry flavor is much, much better than lemon. Until I tried cherry I had to mix the lemon flavor with some sugar to get it down (yes, I used to have severe, chronic constipation as hard as that is to believe) but cherry I can handle fine with a straw and a very cold bottle of the stuff. There's also grape flavored but I've never tried it; it sounds bad to me.

Oh cherry !! That has to be better , even with a straw that lemon is horrific. I’m going to find a bottle to have on hand. Thanks so much

After my blockage I keep very close tabs on my bathroom habit’s. What I went through truly was worse than labor.

[Wild Coyote]

Originally Posted by ~Christina

Oh cherry !! That has to be better , even with a straw that lemon is horrific. I’m going to find a bottle to have on hand. Thanks so much

After my blockage I keep very close tabs on my bathroom habit’s. What I went through truly was worse than labor.

many do well to simply take the mineral magnesium. it comes in various forms: citrate, gluconate, glycinate, oxide. All are simply tabs/cap of this mineral only.

Many take this daily in order to meet daily requirements and, as a side-effect, it helps regularity.

We also need magnesium for heart function and more.
Magnesium can be very calming on the nrevous system. some people take it at night for this reason. it has been known to calm "restless legs" and muscle spasms, etc.

Some find it very helpful for calming neuropathies. -- both by mouth and the topical formulations.

it comes in topical forms and is an incredibly useful formulation for peripheral neuropathy, etc.

i do recall the liquid you are both referring to!

[~Christina]

I use to take magnesium and many more supplements on a regular basis but I remembering one day choking on a couple of the bigger ones, I was home alone and it really scared me. I shoved them in a dresser drawer and just forgot them.. I do take a multi vitamin and of course vitamin D as I’m always low on it.

Magnesium is also very good for Fibromyalgia.

Once my ultrasound is done I need to get back on them all, I know I’m lacking many things. Studies on Fibro patients has actually shown despite supplements we often are running low of important vitamin and minerals.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

I take mag oxide pills for migraine prevention. Mag citrate was only as needed for constipation when it got beyond all other treatments. The mag oxide might have helped my constipation some but it's hard to know for sure and now that's just a moot point.

[bizi]

Originally Posted by ~Christina

I use to take magnesium and many more supplements on a regular basis but I remembering one day choking on a couple of the bigger ones, I was home alone and it really scared me. I shoved them in a dresser drawer and just forgot them.. I do take a multi vitamin and of course vitamin D as I’m always low on it.

Magnesium is also very good for Fibromyalgia.

Once my ultrasound is done I need to get back on them all, I know I’m lacking many things. Studies on Fibro patients has actually shown despite supplements we often are running low of important vitamin and minerals.

May I ask what you take to stay regular?
bizi

[~Christina]

Originally Posted by bizi

May I ask what you take to stay regular?
bizi

I eat lots of vegetables, salads and fiber however I can get it.. I think what actually helps me the most is I always drink more than a gallon of water a day.

[bizi]

Originally Posted by ~Christina

I eat lots of vegetables, salads and fiber however I can get it.. I think what actually helps me the most is I always drink more than a gallon of water a day.

WOW!!!!
a gallon of water is wonderful and all natural for sure.
bizi

[Wild Coyote]

Originally Posted by bizi

WOW!!!!
a gallon of water is wonderful and all natural for sure.
bizi

Water, healthy oils, physical activity, fiber are all helpful for regularity.

There's nothing wrong with magnesium oxide if it works well for your goals/purposes for using it. It is less bioavailable however.

BeyondTheRainbow, you make a good point, some people cannot tolerate the citrate form without loose stools. Others need the citrate form. it's great the oxide formula helps your migraines.

Formulations, other than oxide, are generally considered more therpeutic.
Various formulations tend to target various conditions.

There are several formulations, each of which seem to best target specific purposes. This can be confusing. I solve this by using a formulation which has more than one type of magnesium in it.

There are formulations which have appox. 5 formulations of calcium and 5 formulations of magnesium. Example: Country Life's Target-Mins Calcium Magnesium Complex. I often use this formulation.

Country life also offers a magnesium supplement with multiple forms of magnesium, also referred toas "Target-Mins."

[Wild Coyote]

Just an FYI: ducosate sodium is a stool softener which increases the amount of water absorbed by the stool

Many meds cause constipation. Personally, I prefer to address this via using the more natural approaches mentioned above. Should those approaches fail, I sometimes resort to ducosate sodium, which comes as a small capsule. Ducosate sodium is often used in hospital settings.

[bizi]

Thanks my dear!
I can't take calcium supplements anymore because they elevated my blood calcium level.
I hope you have a good day. love to you
bizi