I’ve wondered for quite a while about this recipe of minerals and serotonin and migraine. Every time I try to add magnesium to my supplement regimen, which does include calcium, I seem to experience more or worse migraine attacks.
But that contradicts everything I read about many migraineurs having low levels of magnesium and how magnesium helps. So I have been left to wonder if this is coincidental for me and to try adding magnesium periodically to see what happens — and to suspect that perhaps I am just an anomaly in this regard!
Please read this brief article by Mamta Singh I was glad to find about the role of calcium in the mix with magnesium, potassium and serotonin. Maybe eventually I will find just the right amount of each ingredient for me!
*Obviously, I am a student and not an expert in this area, so please check with you doctor about supplements you consider taking.
I was just thinking about the whole magnesium thing myself. It is mentioned all the time in regards to migraines and fibromyalgia… so I figured why not. I’ve tried it before, but for the life of me I cannot remember if it did anything positive or negative or anything at all. Although, I do remember when I tried the whole vitamin regiment route, it made me feel positively ill. Then I just tamed down on it because some herbal remedies can affect medications, which by then I had pelnty of. So this time, just the magnesium and see how it goes.
Hi, Nikki! Do you take calcium as well? Please let me know how you do with just the magnesium. I’ll be interested to know; so many people say it helps.
Can’t say it is helping with the migraines and I am taking the full dose now. It is helping with these muscle jerks I was getting at night, so that is good. My next step is adding in calcium, see if the combo helps more.
Hello,
Maybe magnesium just doesn’t work for you? I took magnesium at ridiculously high doses for at least 4 years and it never made a difference in my migraines. To be honest all the supplements I tried never made a difference and I was on those for years before I finally had enough and stopped.
Just a thought. Good luck!
Brianne
Hi, Brianne! Thanks, and you are most likely right! I’m glad to hear that at least for one other person magnesium didn’t make a difference, because when everything points to it being helpful but it doesn’t help you, you start to wonder… we all have such individual and unique systems! What do you use/take now to manage your migraines? My best to you.
I hope maybe the combination will help! At least adding the calcium now most likely won’t do any harm and depending on your diet, you can probably use it…
And did I tell you that I think the butterbur, B-2, and ginger combo might be helping my situation? You just want to be sure to try things separately and gradually.
Betsy, I am unable to drink milk, so taking calcium, and joint juice which is fruity juice with glucosamine.
Also, taking 300 mg a day of b50 caplets, which helps me focus, less head and neck pain, and so far, no migraines since last year around turkey time.
Interesting.
I take calcium each day and magnesium as well. Seems to help
Heather
Wow, Heather – that is great. Sounds like maybe you have found just the right combination! I hope I do, too, and everyone else! Hope you’re having a good summer.
I take magnesium, feverfew, B2 and D for my migraines. My chiropractor suggested I supplement with Calcium and it caused me to get one of the worst migraines of my life… no calcium for me.
Isn’t it amazing – it just has to be the balance of these in each of our systems. I don’t seem to tolerate the feverfew or magnesium and for your it’s the calcium! I take B2 and D3 (and butterbur) also. I guess if we are patient and keep trying the combinations, we find one that helps. Thanks, Sue. (I hope you get enough calcium otherwise in your diet for bone strength, etc.)