Magnesium for Tics

[qannie47]

Recently I spoke with our doc about my non-pandas child whom just developed a mild vocal tic. He told me to increase Calm from 2tsp 1x a day to 2x day. It worked!

 

My Pandas son just started his first real flare in over 14 months. UGH. However, the worst of it lasted only 2 days and it seems to be diminishing pretty rapidly with the exception of his Facial Tic/Verbal....I decided to give him a second helping of Calm today, and it worked for him as well.

 

 

[rowingmom]

So how many mg of magnesium citrate daily do you find effective?

 

We are just resolving a ticcing flare caused by (as far as spacestar and I can tell because her son is having similar responses to the herb) licorice in a combo detox remedy.

 

DD is taking 300 mg mag citrate at night and another 400 or so during the day. Perhaps it helped, but I haven't changed her magnesium dosing for a while so don't know if ticcing would have been worse without it.

Edited November 30, 2014 by rowingmom

[Mayzoo]

My kiddo's ticcing is worse with very low doses of mag chloride 75mg/day. She was fine on mag glycinate 300mg/day, but probably due to increased absorption of mag chloride, she is ticcing due to mag pulling toxins out of the tissues (I guess). We started at 150mg/day and the ticcing was intolerable; at 75mg it is manageable.

[rowingmom]

My kiddo's ticcing is worse with very low doses of mag chloride 75mg/day. She was fine on mag glycinate 300mg/day, but probably due to increased absorption of mag chloride, she is ticcing due to mag pulling toxins out of the tissues (I guess). We started at 150mg/day and the ticcing was intolerable; at 75mg it is manageable.

 

Is that oral or transdermal?

[Mayzoo]

 

My kiddo's ticcing is worse with very low doses of mag chloride 75mg/day. She was fine on mag glycinate 300mg/day, but probably due to increased absorption of mag chloride, she is ticcing due to mag pulling toxins out of the tissues (I guess). We started at 150mg/day and the ticcing was intolerable; at 75mg it is manageable.

 

Is that oral or transdermal?

 

 

Initially, it was oral (150mg) then I dropped it to 75mg oral, then converted to 75mg transdermal due to the interaction with minocycline.

[qannie47]

_{Right now we are at about 300 twice a day. He was originally on 1x a day. It was the second dose that seemed to do the trick. Good to know that I can go to a higher amount.}

[nicklemama]

Interesting about the mag. I'm taking mag glycinate, at the direction of my LLMD, for muscle twitches and I've found it works! My son takes mag transdermally.

[qannie47]

my kids take it in a biocarbonic version. I tried it once and it knocked me out!!! Immediately.

[chubbermommy]

If you are deficient in Mg to begin with, will it take a few days for the levels to increase enough to see a difference, if any?

 

DS was taking 120mg magnesium glycinate (has been for the last few months) and ticcing very very badly lately. I doubled his dose last night, and will do so again tonight. But we haven't seen any changes so I'm wondering if he was so deficient that it will take a while. Or would I have to keep increasing gradually until something good (I hope) happens?

[nicklemama]

We take a lot more than 120mgs. 500, I think but it might be more.

[chubbermommy]

I realize now it was very low. I have 120mg capsules, so I'm going up one capsule a day, making sure he can handle it. At 3 capsules, tics did not change. Today I'll try 4, which would be 480mg. I don't know if this can help, but everyone with lyme kids seems to be supplementing a whole lot more, so it can't hurt to try.

[qannie47]

^{I really like the biocarbonic version, Calm. I heard the bioavailability is higher and faster into the bloodstream}

 

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