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Feeling much better with Magnesium Citrate and an Anti-depressant.

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After 45 years of suffering frequent PVC's I met a doctor who suggested magnesium citrate. I also dragged out the last report from my cardiologist who recommended an anti-depressant, advice which I had previously ignored. So I have been taking both for a few weeks now - 400 mg of Magnesium Citrate (not the phosphate or carbonate or sulphate just the plain citrate) and one 5mg Escitalopram. It's been only a few weeks not but I haven't felt this good in decades. I actually think I am breaking the destructive PVC's cause anxiety which causes depression which causes more anxiety and more PVC'S etc.

From getting hundreds of these every day I have gone down to less than a couple of dozen and no longer spend every waking hour monitoring my heartbeats. Instead of feeling every heartbeat every day I feel like everyone else whose hearts tick away unnoticed in the background. The anti-depressant is non-addictive too.

Hope this helps some of you.

Regards Cliff from Australia.

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It sounds like you've broken a vicious circle, and this is great news that it's working for you! Onwards and upwards!

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Well done. Not an easy circle to break.

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jeanjeannie50

Wow that's good to hear. Thank you for sharing.

Unfortunately magnesium makes my stomach sore, so I put it in my bath and also have an oil spray.

Jean

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Did you try magnesium citrate with nothing else in it?

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It's just Solgar's Magnesium Citrate and has additives to bulk out the pill.

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Great news Cliff - sounds like it`s really working for you.

Best,

Paul

I too take magnesium( glycinate) and an antidepressant( zoloft). I have fought antidepressants for years, a love/ hate relationship, lol. I want to be able to deal with depression/ anxiety without meds, but I do believe they help tame the anxiety monster. The one thing that keeps me from stopping the antidepressant( again) is thinking it keeps down the fire of anxiety that probably triggers the a fib. One way I know it helps my anxiety is that Im much more confident and brave riding my horse on zoloft that when Im off zoloft. On Zoloft, every time my horse Brumby trips, I grab the saddle horn and on Zoloft, I just laugh and tell him to pick up his feet🤣 My hubby begs me not to quit the Zoloft.....🌝😎👀

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fallingtopieces

That’s good news Cliff.

You ‘met a doctor who recommended magnesium citrate ‘. That doesn’t happen here in my experience. Not one doctor, GP or consultant I’ve mentioned Magnesium to, neither appeared to know the benefits or want to comment on it.

My magnesium of choice is magnesium citrate and I’ve taken 800mg for over 5 years. All the PVCs and PACs I’d been plagued with for years are now drastically reduced.

Hope your good results continue.

Pat

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Kingsley09 in reply tofallingtopieces

Hi am wondering why you take such a high dose of magnesium as the guides tell you 320 mg a day for women and 400 mg men I am taking it hoping it will help my afib and nerve pain. Did your dr recommend the high dose I would love to up mine but have been worried about overdosing what did you up your dosage for specifically for thanks

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fallingtopieces in reply toKingsley09

No, no doctor recommended it. After my violent AF episode in 2012, I did all the research I could for many hours(I’m good at researching) and found a very good website, the US based ‘AFibbers’. I mainly made my decision from the in depth information on that site. I tried different doses and settled on 800mg.

If your kidneys are ok( and that’s the same advice for taking anything), don’t worry about increasing your dose, you excrete excess magnesium. There are people taking much higher doses than me, more than double my dose. The advice I found at the time was to take to bowel tolerance. Magnesium keeps your bowels beneficially regular and your digestive system moving which helps if you have vagal AF. It does have an added benefit of a calming effect too.

Pat

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Kingsley09 in reply tofallingtopieces

Thanks I’ll try putting my dosage up gradually x

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