Posted by JLx on September 18, 2003, at 20:42:54
Some of you may remember me posting previously re "Miraculous Results With Magnesium" especially concerning George Eby's website, "Rapid Recovery From Depression Using Magnesium Treatment" http://www.coldcure.com/html/dep.html.
I ran into trouble after two months despite making no substantive changes in my supplement and diet regimen. I attributed it to hormonal fluctuations as I had some obvious changes coinciding with the drop in my mood. I started taking natural progesterone, after reading a couple books and numerous webpages about it, and after two weeks felt even worse, so I quit that. [Then I happened to read someone else's book who said that the natural progesterone people had it all backward! I think she might be right.]
It was up and down from then on and I can't really say what I did and didn't do and how it worked/didn't work because I didn't keep track of specifics. I am CONVINCED, however, that even my sometimes ragged magnesium supplementation kept me from feeling suicidal. I've never been as unfunctional as I was this summer before without having suicidal ideation. And interestingly, after reading "Depression-Free for Life: A Physician's All-Natural, 5-Step Plan"
by Gabriel Cousens, I tried one of his recommendations, glutamine, this week and after one day, I WAS suicidal. Then I took taurine and felt better again the very next day. [George Eby is recommending magnesium taurate these days, instead of glycinate, which is where I got that idea.] If nothing else, that little experiment convinced me of how much better I really had been feeling all summer compared to olden days where waking up right into a feeling of wanting to put a gun to my head was commonplace -- even while on antidepressants. [The circumstances of my life right now -- joblessness, house about to be foreclosed, IRS on my tail, etc. pretty much preclude a truly "good mood", I suspect. ;)]Anyway, I am trying to figure things out and am happy to see this new board! :)
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