Updated Magnesium withdrawal update

First, I had noticed a bit of tension in my arms and shoulders, which seemed to add to my jittery nature a bit. Then I realized my temper had shorthand down a bit. I should warn those around me prior to experimentation with changing magnesium dosage or stopping it completely. Then it was shortness of breath.

Breathing is important after all, and if you already suffer from NA, you are sensitive (or I am anyway) to any breathing changes. Why? If you do not already know, NA can impact the cervical plexus in some instances. The cervical plexus is the place where the phrenic nerves originate and then travel down to the diaphragm. If your phrenic nerves are involved in a NA attack, you can have loss of some diaphragm function. Now, it could be that I already have some losses, and taking the magnesium away just made my function worse than normal. Or it could be a coincidence that for the few days I was off magnesium, I had shortness of breath to the point it disrupted my sleep. The more this goes on, the less I believe in coincidences.

So, I started the magnesium again, and my breathing was back to normal. Well, I still had to take a pronounced deep breath once in a while, but with the magnesium, I could do this. Without it, I was gasping at times.

Magnesium deprivation experiment

Since my strength has dropped off again to similar levels as a few years ago when I could only do a few pushups at a time, I decided to stop the magnesium supplements just to see what impact if any, it is really having on my overall condition.

This is the start of the second day without the supplements. I really do feel a difference at least as far as tremor goes. I notice it in both arms and both hands, although the left side seems to manifest this a bit more than in the right side. I feel as if the base level of static tension has increased in both arms. Movement in general is impacted. Although I am not sure anyone else can see this yet, I feel a bit more wobbly even walking. I have not noticed any increase in the random twitches I had earlier on. The muscle shaking of before has also returned, but that had started when my strength dropped off- I had noticed this when trying to do pushups recently.

Conclusions so far- My strength return of before must not really have had anything to do with magnesium since it dropped off prior to my stopping the magnesium. It must have just been a coincidence that my strength returned at a time I had started taking the supplement. Tremor definitely is related to magnesium intake for me since this has increased noticeably. It is too soon to say how the twitches will be impacted.

Parsonage Turner Syndrome Revealing Lyme disease

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread72131.html

Maybe my friend who suggested I should be tested for Lyme disease knows more than I thought she did about this topic.

The above link is one of many links to a paper (Wendling D, Sevrin P, Bouchaud-Chabot A, Chabroux A, Toussirot E, Bardin T, Michel F. -Service de Rhumatologie, CHU Jean Minjoz, et EA 3186 -Agents Pathogènes et Inflammation- Université de Franche-Comté, Boulevard Fleming, 25030 Besançon, France) suggesting that NA, AKA, Parsonage Turner Syndrome, has been linked to Lyme disease. The abstract suggests that four patients, who were reported to have NA, were later found to have contracted Lyme disease. One had said they knew they had been bitten by a tick, and all four showed positive for Lyme disease. It concludes that tests for Lyme disease should be performed in all patients who have Parsonage Turner Syndrome.

Back to five

Now, all of a sudden I am at around 5 push-ups again. I don’t get it. Evidently. . .

So, what is this now? I have to wonder if there is something else going on other than NA. This fluctuation of strength is just too odd to fit NA.

Anyone have any ideas? Do any of you with NA or HNA have similar fluctuation of overall strength in areas not impacted directly by NA? I mean, I would not expect my scapula or hand to be strong now. But other areas I think should stay about what they are considering I have been trying to keep up on other strength.