Need help sleeping? Try Magnesium. Slept solid 5 hours!

[Tech Guy]

I'm not someone who likes to take pills. Always prefer a natural approach. Around 11 pm took 200mg of magnesium had in the cabinet. The last few nights have been rocky and wanted to try and relax the muscles. Dozed off around around midnight. Have a tendency to wake up every few hours. Looked at the time. It was 5 am! Can't remember waking up before that. Will continue taking magnesium before bed and might experiment bumping up the dosage to 400 mg in a week or so. Here's an article on the importance taking magnesium for sleep improvements.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/marek-d ... 11795.html

[LinkC]

BAD IDEA!!! PLEASE check with your sleep doc before using any sleep aids!

Most strongly advise against sleep drugs if you have OA. Think about it. If you have an obstructive apnea while drugged, you may not wake up. Or you may suffer effects of 02 deprivation before waking.

Our problem isn't the inability to sleep. It's the inability to BREATHE normally while sleeping. When xPAP doesn't prevent an apnea, we awaken enough to breathe. Sleep drugs may inhibit that response.

[Lazer1234]

Linkc # Sleep Drugs ? Magnesium needs of the human body to survive. It is a vital mineral.

[chunkyfrog]

Too much of a mineral can hurt you, just like too much of anything else.

[LSAT]

Linkc # Sleep Drugs ? Magnesium needs of the human body to survive. It is a vital mineral.

Magnesium and Melatonin are both produced by your body, but, too much of either can cause problems especially if they react with other meds you are taking. ALWAYS check with your doctor.

[Tech Guy]

LOL, magnesium is a vital mineral the body requires. Magnesium has little or no side effects taken in lower doses. The 200mg of magnesium is not even 50% of the recommended daily value. If you are someone taking meds for whatever reason, of course checking with your doctor is ALWAYS a good idea. Magnesium can also be found in dark leafy greens. Calcium is also recommended to take with magnesium. Magnesium has been medically shown to help or reduce fibromyalgia, restless legs, migraines and pain. Do the research !

[Lazer1234]

Magnesium is a vital mineral for many bodily functions.

For the average person, is magnesium supplements safe to experiment with on your own, especially if you know you have symptoms that may be related to magnesium deficiency or are under extra stress and so on. Excess magnesium is excreted in urine and feces, and the most common sign of too much magnesium is loose stools.
The excessive sweating that some menopausal women suffer, also cause magnesium deficiency. Their declining magnesium levels cause sleep disorders, panic attacks, body aches and depression.

[LinkC]

If you are using it to achieve deeper sleep, then it's a sleep drug, by definition. But, whatever you call it, see what your sleep doc says.

[bryansong]

This is interesting to me. I have been dealing with getting to sleep all my life. I have been taking sleep meds for years.

I printed the article and will look into it.

Thank you.

Bryan

[LinkC]

For the average person, is magnesium supplements safe to experiment with on your own.

That may be true, but OSA patients aren't "the average person".

All I'm saying is check with an OSA expert before using ANY substance that deepens your sleep.

[49er]

For the average person, is magnesium supplements safe to experiment with on your own.

That may be true, but OSA patients aren't "the average person".

All I'm saying is check with an OSA expert before using ANY substance that deepens your sleep.

Normally, that is wise advise but you have read the various posts on people's experiences from h-ll with clueless sleep doctors, right?

49er

[Lazer1234]

If you are using it to achieve deeper sleep, then it's a sleep drug, by definition. But, whatever you call it, see what your sleep doc says.

Not deeper sleep, just "normal" sleep

[GrantT]

If you are using it to achieve deeper sleep, then it's a sleep drug, by definition. But, whatever you call it, see what your sleep doc says.

By that definition, by using CPAP to increase oxygen levels in our systems we are using oxygen as a sleep drug too then?

Grant

[Lazer1234]

Magnesium and Melatonin are both produced by your body, but, too much of either can cause problems especially if they react with other meds you are taking. ALWAYS check with your doctor.

Especially important at taking supplements of magnesium if you take certain medications:
Many prescription drugs cause the body to lose magnesium through urine, as diuretics for high blood pressure, oral contraceptives, insulin, digitalis, tetracycline and some other antibiotics and corticosteroids and bronchodilator medicines for asthma. With the loss of magnesium, all of these drug-treated symptoms that inevitably get worse.

[Sir NoddinOff]

Here's something I just wrote for another thread... I'm too lazy to retype it so here's a cut and paste:

Another way to supplement magnesium, which I do, is to buy Magnesium Oil at any health food store. You spray a few shots onto your abdomen once a day and rub it in. It's not really oily but just feels that way until it dries. Your skin simply absorbs what it needs, that way no fuss about taking too many pills.