Magnesium supplements and atrial flutter.

[Angelo3764]

Are magnesium supplements beneficial in controlling atrial flutter? Is evidence from personal experience or clinical studies available?

[john-boy-92]

They make no difference to my fibrillation or flutter.

[BobD Volunteer]

You will not find scientific evidence to suport any claims about supplements but there may be anecdotal claims. For my part my theory is if you beleive in something then it usually works.

[G0dfather]

I had magnesium put into my blood stream intravenously twice in 5 hour sessions recently in hospital to try and stop my atrial flutter and it made no difference. I had to have a cardioversion though which did put me back into sinus rhythm so I'm sceptical about magnesium although hospitals use it a lot intravenously.

[SteveCairns]

Have done a lot of research on this as I have now got ventricular EPTOPICS and tachycardia since having weightLoss surgery ( turns out it can worsen after bariatric surgery , something surgeon forgot to mention ) , woth magesnium it’s not well absorbed via tablets and you would have to take a shit load of them , apparently

It’s better absorbed intravenously, but it depends

On the nature of the arrhythmia and how the individual reacts to

It .

[ZuckerRat]

If you go to Google Scholar and type in the term “magnesium and heart rhythm“, there are pages upon pages upon pages of research regarding magnesium, heart rate and atrial fibrillation.

The form of magnesium as well as the dosage are crucial. The majority if not all of magnesium supplements that can be bought at your local pharmacy are nearly useless.

scholar.google.com/scholar?...

[Ppiman]

The last time that I searched for evidence, I could find no worthwhile study that showed any definite effect from oral magnesium in any heart arrythmia. It's clear that doctors are interested in it and have tried to show it is useful, but, so far, no study has shown it is meaningfully useful.

What is also clear is that all forms of magnesium (e.g. oxide, sulphate, stearate, taurate, etc.) are all sufficiently well absorbed to increase magnesium levels effectively.

That said, anecdotally, some people say it helps and it must be said that a placebo response is a worthwhile aspect of human experience.

I've never read of magnesium helping specifically with atrial flutter, however, which is known to be one of the hardest arrhythmias to help in my own experience, prior to my ablation. My symptoms were awful, and my racing heart was a struggle to control until a member here suggested asking my GP for digoxin, which did the trick amazingly well until my ablation came along.

Steve

[Tarikor]

Late reply, but, guess what they use in Perth hospitals in Western Australia to treat acute AFib episodes? MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE IV. Yep... no Flecainide, nor Verapamil. Just a plain magnesium salt. And it works. Coincidentally enough, I had been using both Magnesium Chloride and Magnesium Citrate to great effect already around 10 years ago.

My Afib and Aflutter episodes were mostly due to gut issues that at the time, I had no idea was possible but now I know and even my cardiologist here told me to fix my gut and most of my heart issues would be GONE WITH THE WIND

So yes, it does help, a lot. However, some magnesium formulations (looking at you Magnesium Oxide) can irritate the gut lining and also cause diarrhea which will also cause electrolyte loss which can precipitate an arrhythmia, so choose your Mg supplement wisely.

(surprised to read the comments below saying it does not work. Well, it has always worked for me and considering they use it at hospitals in Western Australia instead of poisonous drugs with tons of side effects, it must be doing something right!