potsiebarbie

I take gummy ones I found at walmart. Definitely easy on the stomach!

Anybody with IRBBB take beta blockers? I've been told different things by different cardios on whether or not someone with IRBBB can take beta blockers. 

Anybody on this, or have tried it? Experiences? Why you like or dislike? What you switched to (and liked) if you didn't like it? 

Thanks in advance!

Wow! I'm glad I'm not the only one. Anybody mention it to their doc?

Anybody else get a bright red burning hot ear (one side at a time)? 

Does anybody get left arm pain? Of course I keep reading it can be related to the heart so my anxiety is starting to rear it's ugly head. I have had it on and off for a little of a year. It started when I was pregnant with my last daughter. The first time I had chest pain along with it. That first time and many times since I have had many ER and doctor visits. Aside from an occasional abnormal EKG that the doctors seem to think is no big deal, nothing has come up. Even if I were assured it wasn't my heart, it still really hurts and of course I'd like to know what is going on. Idk how to describe it. Deep ache maybe? Idk. It is upper inner arm. Seems beneath the bicep before the tricep but I'm not entirely sure. Any experience, advice, or anything else you have to offer would be appreciated. Thank you.

Just now, potsiebarbie said:

Leakage like regurgitation from one or more valves? Maybe it is your esophagus. Heart and stomach stuff get mixed up all the time. Idk that you'd feel leaking from valve regurgitation.  Get a second opinion. 

Whoops sorry didnt see that this is three years old!

Leakage like regurgitation from one or more valves? Maybe it is your esophagus. Heart and stomach stuff get mixed up all the time. Idk that you'd feel leaking from valve regurgitation.  Get a second opinion. 

So sometimes I put it on and it will read 50 something for hr and then a few seconds later its 80s or 90s. So my question is how accurate is this? Does it maybe take a little while to register your true heartrate or is my heartrate just erratic? 

I feel like I get more heart palpitations just before and upon starting my period? Anybody relate, and perhaps know why? 

Anyone get palpitations after eating?

Sugar?

Full stomach? 

Idk just trying to make connections- wanted to see if anyone else could relate. 

Does anybody use either of these types of magnesium? What brand? Do you like them? What did they do for you? Thanks in advance!

I cried during my NCS/EMG this week. Lol I was not thrilled with the shockey thing. Not thrilled with the needles either. Actually the needles on the right side were bearable; I think because that is wear the neuro was sitting. Reaching over to do the left must have been a bad angle. Anyway, did you get your results? 

Yes!!! Sorry I don't have alot to elaborate on other than it negatively affects my marriage, and my other family relationships. 

I get everything you are describing when my magnesium is low. I take magnesium glycinate throughout the day and it eliminates or greatly reduces all those issues. I did not have the same success with mag oxide or citrate. Maybe worth looking into for you. 

On 7/15/2019 at 10:29 PM, Outaker said:

Who diagnosed you with Gitelman? Nephrologist ? Los Angeles?

Yes a nephrologist. Yes in the L.A. County. 

Magnesium! Good quality magnesium supplement. Not oxide or citrate. More along the lines of glycinate. Dosed throughout the day. PPIs not only weren't very affective for me but they drained my body of magnesium. 

I have a genetic kidney defect condition called gitelman syndrome. It causes me to have renal magnesium wasting. Most people with it also lose potassium. I would recommend a 24 hr urine checking your electrolytes to see if your kidneys are excreting an abnormal amount. 

What's the highest your heartrate has gotten? What happened? What did you do? What did your doc say? Thanks in advance.

On 4/21/2019 at 9:07 PM, MeganMN said:

Any news? @potsiebarbie

Nope. Lol That's the health care system for ya.

On 4/20/2019 at 5:34 PM, Peter Charlton said:

Initially, I thought maybe I had an aortic aneurysm  as I would be standing still and then suddenly it felt as if something had suddenly expanded in my stomach area causing all the blood to fall down to my lower half. I didn't feel faint, it was a bit like going over a hump back bridge very quickly. This was just a single ectopic and didn't happen for days at a time, then I would get one.

My GP though it felt enlarged but a ultrasound showed this wasn't the case, this was September 2014.

I cannot remember what prompted the first wearing of a 24 hour halter monitor, but I didn't get any ectopics whilst wearing it, so was dismissed.

Due to the ectopics happening more frequently, I tried again a year later, still didn't co-incide. and I was once again dismissed. But I was starting to know it was my heart because lying down, I could feel my heart beating in a strange way, so that instead of "ba-dumph, ba-dumph" heart beat, I would get "ba-dumph-dumph" and the third part I would feel in my belly and I could actually see it jump. So I read you could buy your own ecg which is what I did. The following is an early example. As you can see, I wasnt getting one PVC a month, it was now every fifth beat on this occasion.

Gradually these ectopics grew more and mnore frequent, until they all joined together like a runaway train in your chest. Then I would feel as if I was being strangled, I could feel these ectopics as powerful beats that I could feel te pressure of in my groin arteries.

Normally nu VT just feels like a mad squirrel leaping around in my chest, but on one occasion, I thought I might die as it was as if I my consciousness was on a dial that somebody would turn down every three or four seconds, but would spin it back on just before I blacked out, this went on for a bout 45 minutes. I didn't have my ECG with me on that occasion as I would have loved to know what my heart was doing.

Wow that's intense! It's great that you were able to catch it and it must have been scary in midst of all that for so long. You're a trooper! So how is it treated and is it under control now? What causes it?

On 4/16/2019 at 12:23 PM, misseb said:

I was told to take 1200mg of magnesium citrate a day, but I can't get over 200mg without having autonomic symptoms. I am stumbling around, and really light sensitive the next day if I take more. 

Have you tried splitting it up throughout the day? Which doc wanted you to take it and why?

On 4/14/2019 at 11:43 AM, Heartbroken said:

I take Magnesium citrate (Prescription) 400 mg twice a day, still my Magnesium is below normal. I get strong heart beats with the slightest loud noises. 

Do they know why? Have you done a 24hr urine checking mag?

On 4/14/2019 at 10:39 AM, Jason_X said:

There are other forms of magnesium that are less likely to cause digestive problems.  Magnesium Citrate is used as a laxative, and it is going to cause problems unless you take small doses. 

Magnesium Glycinate:  Supposed to be well tolerated. I've had good luck with it at bedtime.  Seems to help with sleep.

Magnesium Malate: Supposed to be well tolerated. I've had good luck with it at bedtime.  This seemed to help with lethargy after getting off of Gabapentin when Mg Glycinate didn't seem to help.

Magnesium Theonate:  Supposed to be somewhat better for reaching the brain.  It didn't seem to help me sleep.

Magnesium Taurate: Supposed to be somewhat better than the others for heart rate issues.

I think I will try the glycinate. Do you know if it does the same? Like if I took 400 mg of citrate is it safe to assume I'd take 400 of glycinate?

On 4/17/2019 at 4:29 PM, Peter Charlton said:

Two years of the NHS monitor wearing failing to coincide with what I knew to be my heart, prompted me to buy my own little ECG machine, that way I could record what was happening as it happened. Once I could show the NHS what they had missed, the ball started rolling very rapidly indeed.

What were your symptoms. How did you know something was wrong?