I just gave all the different bottles to a family member. Maybe I can find the notes I made to give to the doctor - who didn't even look at them. I know not to take the standard drugstore supplements, although I did try shaving a tiny bit off of a tablet each day - same effect just not as bad. Brands - I think I've tried the usual Nature Made and other inexpensive brands, as well as the specialty stores that cater to body-builders and athletes. Most recently magnesium gluconate, then magnesium orotate.
Don't laugh, but I still refer to Dr. Atkins books on nutrition and magnesium is on his list as helpful for several conditions I have - I had untreated hypertension, so now I have a slightly rapid heartbeat. I realize that tachycardia can turn me up dead, so I do take it seriously. However, I had that sonogram-type thing of my heart and it pumps just fine. no irregular heartbeat, just fast. No fluid retention, etc. I wonder if it isn't nutrition-related at least in part (age-related also).
Also, they keep suggesting it's stress, and I am not stressed, I have the physical symptoms of stress, but not the emotions that go with stress. KWIM? I have known real stress in my lifetime, this ain't it. And, I do not have "generalized anxiety disorder." Same with depression - been there - I know it when I see it.
I also have osteoporosis bad enough that my doc says I can't afford to forget my calcium tablets, and I take calcitonin salmon (nasal spray). I'm taking 10 mg of Norvasc once a day and 25 mg of metoprolol 2x daily. 9 mg of Entocort a day for close to a year now.-(This is going to change, I'm sure - I am going to take the humira or remicade if that's still what they think after my scope in November); Welchol 625 mg 6 a day - controls my D under most circumstances, occasionally loperamide. Occasioanlly Zantac, but strangely it affects me much like magnesium but to a lesser degree - makes me wonder what it really is, haha.
I think that about covers it medications and ailments. Although I had undiagnosed Crohns, I always considered myself pretty healthy, did aerobics for years, but I smoked - switched to e-cigs 2 years ago. That's nicotine in a glycerine base, vaporized by heat and inhaled.
But I have had this sensitivity to magnesium supplements for years. Way before any of this.
Heavens this is a long post. Nutrition is one of my hot buttons., though.