Magnesium Deficiency re-visited

So- I have been thinking about my tremors and twitches and weakness, etc. especially since my tremors and twitches had gone away. I had failed to mention that during the time they went away, I had increased my intake of Magnesium. A few days ago, my magnesium supplement ran out. This morning I noticed a return of the twitches, and I felt wrong inside. Now I see that it may be that the magnesium was helping. Here is a bit from the web.

Magnesium deficiency from Wikipedia See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomagnesemia Miss-spellings are from Wikipedia.
Clinical features

“Deficiency of magnesium causes weakness, muscle cramps, cardiac arrhythmia, increased irritability of the nervous system with tremors, athetosis, jerking, nystagmus and an extensorplantar reflex. In addition, there may be confusion, disorientation, hallucinations, depression, epileptic fits, hypertension, tachycardia and tetany.”

From that list, I have my share of nystigmus, weakness, tremors, jerking- which I am taking to mean twitches, but who knows for sure? Depression also fits if sleep is disrupted as in my case- I had thought the twitches disrupted my sleep, but maybe it is just a coincidence that I did not sleep well last night, and noticed a return of the twitches. This page it also talks about magnesium deficiency blocking release of acetylcholine, which is the neurotransmitter that is also associated with Myasthenia Gravis.

“The neurological effects are:
 reducing electrical excitation
 blocking release of acetylcholine
 blocking N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptors, an excitatory neurotransmitter of the central nervous system.


Well, I went right down to the store and got more Magnesium supplements. I feel calmer already.

And about those tremors- What tremors? ? ? ?

Man, I sound bitter in my last post. .. .

Well,if any of you have gone through having something that is a bit out of the ordinary as far as a diagnosis goes, you can no doubt understand why. I do not want to be that bitter. If I go back to my doctor again, it will be to do only the simple things any doctor has experience with. He is not an ‘out of the box’ type thinker, and that is what is required here. Or, maybe he would be a better doctor if he had more time. Well, I gotta scoot.

Remember I was recently diagnosed with essential tremors? Of course, I had known I had them but no one would ever take the time to ask me to show them what I did that made me notice them. At least my regular doctor was good for that much. The thing is, they seem to be gone.

Essential tremors do not just go away, or do they? I can’t find any site that suggests they go away without any reason anyway, and most just say it is something you have to live with. I know, I see the ads pop up on this site too, and some of them are about essential tremor cure. I do not want to dissuade anyone from clicking on an ad here but also do not want to seem that I endorse any that show here. I have the ads to pop in for key words in my blog- so they are what they are. My tremors went away totally, with no changes to anything I was doing, or not doing.

I woke up a few days ago without the normal felling of twitches and tremors that still had been there in the mornings when the medication was its weakest. I decided to try a day without the medication- and then another, and another. My hands are steady. I am not twitching. I do not get it. Maybe this was not really essential tremor, but something else that just mimics the symptoms? Who knows? I will ask the next doctor I see whenever that happens.

I am done

At least, as far as my personal Doctor goes, I have had it. He has shown before that he is not quite up on NA, and evidently he is not able to get into it enough to deal with a patient who has it. My problems are all due to lack of exercise. . .

But of course it is never as simple as that. My lack of exercise, even though I have exercised consistently all through this time, is the reason I am weak. And my exercising is the reason I am weak. There is no residual weakness from the NA because of course as we all know, everyone recovers from it within a few years, and I am no exception. The EMG tests I just had prove that. I have had a complete recovery. These guys have been doing these tests for a long time, and they know how to read the results. OK then. But, as I pointed out, I had my last EMG test right after the winging started in my scapula, and that guy also concluded that I had no nerve related trouble. What? No answer for that one Dr know-it-all?

And what about the other symptoms I have brought up to you recently that may not be related to NA? They were conveniently forgotten since the Neurologist found no reason for them. So, I guess I made all of that up. And if I made that up, I must have made the rest of it up too, so we will just not talk about that. Oh, and by the way, I have to scoot.

No. Not me, the Doctor. HE had to scoot. My appointment was for 11:30 am. I was in the exam room by 12:20. I had my vitals taken by 12:35. I think he came in at 12:40 or maybe a few minutes later. I was in my car and pulling out of the lot by 1:00. HE had to scoot. Where was my appointment? Oh, I guess I was waiting all through it, and beyond. No wonder he had no time to talk to me.

Sure, he was running behind. I am happy that by cutting my visit so short, I helped get him back on schedule. I do know one thing. The person he had to scoot to wasn’t in the waiting room yet when I got the call to go back to my exam room. It is nice to be taken so seriously by the person you have entrusted your life to.

So, as I said. . . I am done. No one will take me seriously. No one gets NA, or HNA. And I guess aside from the essential tremor that he actually did see, I must only think I have the rest of it. There is no reason for the rest of it though. So, I must be making it up about my eyes and the other weakness being anything to be concerned about. You see, it just does not feel right for me to be this way. Maybe it is just not far enough evolved yet to be on their radar. They did not see the essential tremor when I first felt it. Maybe this is like that, and eventually it will be enough that any idiot doctor can tell something is not right. Or maybe I am lazy.

All I know is that I am done doing this blog for now. I have nothing new to share on anything that is pertinent to anyone with NA. And my complaining about doctors is not productive for you or for me either.

Say hello once in a while. I am still here, just taking a break from writing for a while.

From pushups to tingles. . .

Well, if you are following this in any way, I had worked my pushup count back up to 20 very slowly, sort of taking my neurologist’s suggestion to exercise but do not overdo it. It still kills me that they think I am weak from not trying to exercise. Anyway, I had gotten to 20 about the time I had seen him last time- whey he told me I should be trying to exercise. A day or so later, I tried and could only do 15. I think those who have been here may already know where I am going. A few days later I tried, and could do 8 or so. Today, I could barely do 5. There you have my attempt at exercising slowly to build up my muscle mass. Yep. Right.

So, the tingles of last week are gone too. They only lasted that one day, and however active that was it turned out to be just a fluke in the overall scheme of things. Or at least, if it did mean anything, what it meant has not become clear yet. I have no improvement of movement or strength. And, I have no decrease of movement.

It goes on. If I can get my last couple of months of insurance straightened out by tomorrow, I have another appointment with my regular doctor to discuss the findings of the Neurologist. The end of next month, this insurance goes away, and I will have to figure out a new way to pay.