A few new supplements that have helped me

[Chemar]

great that you are finding answers and supps etc that help Michael

 

just wanted to mention that for anyone who may have high levels of mercury to be careful of using ALA (alpha liopic acid) because ALA binds mercury and crosses the blood brain barrier and so can carry mercury INTO the brain

 

we went thru mercury chelation with chlorella (plus extra cilantro in diet) first before adding ALA as the final "mop upper" of brain mercury.

[Suzan]

Thanks Michael, no what you have written is good, I am just trying to get to the bottom of her spasms, she's worried they are tics but they really seem just like a regular old spasm to me. She does get them in her upper thigh too....

Maybe we need some heavy metal testing. So much to test for!

 

susan

 

The muscle spasms I get, when I get them, perhaps I'd say they can happen everywhere, but I think there are places more frequent than others--upper leg muscles a lot, lower leg muscles some, arms muscles some, chest muscles here and there, neck muscles occasionally, below the eye occasionally, and even sometimes the upper eyelid. The neck and below the eye spasms really, when they happen there, it's been more like for a week or so it really happens there a lot. Below the eye, the spot is 1 centimeter (a little less than half an inch) below the lower eyelid, and the spasms is a left-to-right motion, that one just drives me crazy. So did the upper eyelid one, which was also left-to-right motion. The other places, it jumps here and there. Again, I haven't had any of these too much in the last month or so. Except for the eye/neck ones, when they happened, it would be a few spasms on the leg, then nothing for an hour or so, then a few on the other leg or the arm, and so on. I can't say I remember the spasms happening much in the hands/fingers/feet/toes/nose.

 

Many months back, when I was taking carafate for digestive issues, they really went crazy, it was totally out of hand, until I toned down how much I was taking and eventually stopped it. Carafate has aluminum as part of the active ingredient, and I was assuming that is what caused it, but of course it is impossible to know. My mineral analyses have consistently shown aluminum as above 50th percentile, not whopping terrible, but a bigger issue than some other heavy metals such as mercury (if you use the percentiles as a good judge of how important the issue is for you, and perhaps that's just speculation).

 

Just recently, I ran into the comment that magnesium deficiency is a likely cause of muscle spasms. My magnesium doses have changed over time for various reasons, and it is possible that has played a role for me too, but, I have not really tracked the spasms in relation to magnesium intake, so, I don't really know about that as far as my situation is concerned.

 

Hope that helps. Not sure quite what information you were looking for, let me know if you had any specific questions. It can be difficult tracking down what's causing what.

 

Michael