Manganese

[Hillman51]

Hi .. I remember reading on here some time ago about taking manganese to help drooping eyelids due to underactive thyroid , has anyone else tried this please ..😊😊

[Jazzw]

LOL, I had a Google and found another post from you from 3 years ago asking the same question 🙂 but then another post from about 7 years where someone reported having success. It’s the only reference I can find though. healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

It’s all a bit anecdotal.

I too have a droopy eyelid, just the one. I’ve always blamed running into the sharp corner of the mantelpiece when I was 5 or 6 and just the right height to get myself a black eye—more than once too!

[Jazzw]

I’ve done a bit more googling and found an article which seems to suggest manganese overload might cause eye drooping, so that’s not good.

And another that suggest that bilateral (both eyes) ptosis (the medical name for it) might be aided by B vitamins (so often the case), in particular B1 and B6. But hypothyroidism wasn’t the cause of the ptosis in that instance.

[Jazzw]

And this article mentions B12.

draxe.com/health/ptosis/

Though I also found an article which debunked just about everything mentioned in the one I’ve linked to. No more mentions of manganese anywhere to be found.

It does occur to me that the original poster meant magnesium, not manganese. That would make a whole lot more sense!

[Hillman51 in reply to Jazzw]

Jazzw.... thankyou for your comments ... 😊😊

[Jazzw in reply to Hillman51]

No probs. I’ve been looking a bit more closely at that post from 7 years ago and I’m 99% sure now that the person who suggested manganese meant magnesium. They refer to 200mg tablets. Which is fine for magnesium but would be a huge dose of manganese—that’s usually sold in no more than 5mg tablets (the RDA for manganese is a very small amount).

I know that people suggest taking magnesium for twitchy eyes—ever had that thing where your eyes twitch for no reason? I have—and some say that’s a magnesium deficiency. So I wonder if the poster extrapolated—and wondered if magnesium would fix droopiness too? It might explain why we haven’t read any other reports about it.

[helvella Administrator in reply to Jazzw]

It is an easy mistake to make - especially with auto-correct!

[Jazzw]

Admins—thank you. 🙂

[RockyPath]

As a further aside, it may be a struggle to swim against the tide of genetics and gravity 🙄

Good luck in your investigation 🤗

[san_ray70]

I have one drooping eyelid I did not realise it was affected by my thyroid. I have had it since I was young, my dad took me to the eye hospital. They said they could operate, he was told I would not be able to see any better. He did not let them operate, he told them I was beautiful as I was.