The Last Puzzle Piece To This Long-ass Health Journey, Finally
Hey peeps. Good news that may not sound so good atm, but I promise, it’s good news. We’ve finally found the issue, and I’m pretty sure once it’s corrected, shit will be as it should be again. Short and sweet: it’s magnesium deficiency. It’s been going on for a while — at least since spring, possibly since December 2023 — but because of the nature of how blood is tested to find magnesium deficiency, and blood is the last place for said deficiency to reveal itself (something about leaching magnesium from the bones to correct the low magnesium), one has to be at the worst of the deficiency for it to be caught. But now we know what it is, and yeah, with proper treatment, it’s going to get better.
I had a long ass thing drafted up, going into specifics and such, but I’m just too tired to edit, or read, or even post this. But I wanted to share because it is really good news. I got some labs on the aldosterone levels too, and although on the low side of things, supplementing sodium has seemed to keep the potassium/sodium balance in a good place for the moment, which is what matters most. If the secondary adrenal insufficiency goes full primary, it’s a simple pill to treat, so I’m not that worried. And for all I know, the adrenals will improve when the magnesium increases. It takes about 6 months of treatment to restore magnesium deficiency. I don’t know how long the exhaustion is going to last through the next 6 months, but for now, given I’m only 4 days into treatment and feel so much worse than when I got the results, I’m not holding expectations of anything atm. Just getting through.
A lot of sensory feedback has returned to my system, things I didn’t notice were gone. I apparently hate food right now, or at least the taste of it makes me want to puke most hours, making all of this so much harder to repair. I’m using a three pronged approach of magnesium citrate in liquid form as a once a day supplement, magnesium chloride (aka magnesium oil) for transdermal absorption twice a day, and mineral drops added to my beverages of choice. One of those things is going to get around the absolute nausea that has reared the moment I started supplementing and my stomach could be felt for the first time in months. I can feel the cold floor through my feet now, can feel hot water again, can feel how tired I am. Sure, I’ve been slow and aware of it, have had no stamina, no motivation, hunched over like gravity is too much, but it wasn’t until getting some magnesium in that I can feel the overwhelming weight of exhaustion hanging off my every limb, pulling me down. But at the same time, sleep is near impossible. The exhaustion is so bad I’ve finally been able to convince myself not to fight it, to just nap and let the magnesium absorb, etc, but my body has no idea how to switch into sleep. I might have to start taking melatonin during the day just to help it rest as it needs.
Uh, so this looks like the last thing. Because of how essential magnesium is for the body, and that this has been going on long enough to drop my calcium levels with it, there’s a lot of systems that have been under-functioning. Aka, why everything was breaking when the mast cells were finally calmed, making no sense until framed in the context of a deficiency. If I’m lucky (not holding my breath) I may see some things automatically correct that looked like permanent issues. Who knows, maybe the pituitary will… raval? Rally? Rally, yeah, and it’ll remember how to make ACTH/TSH. Not depending on it, but why not be open to a positive potential, right? I should at least stop being chronically fatigued and so dumb brained (totally a medical term) once levels are optimal, and yeah, we’ll see who I am then and what needs prioritizing once I reach that goal.
I would show you the little pumpkin sculpt I’m working on, or a finished painting, or cute cat photos of the kittens, but I’m too tired to upload and deal with formatting. I’m skipping Halloween this year. Thought I could do it — it’s my absolute fav — but getting the magnesium raised has me feeling all the muscle cramps, exhaustion, and fuzzy brains that I can handle atm. But I wanted to check in, let you all know I’m still alive and going to be fine, and when I get back to being more myself, I’ll bore you all with the details — such as if you only drink filtered water, you’re demineralizing your main natural source of magnesium. <— Don’t do this. It adds up quick especially if you're reactive to everything but water.
Hope you all are well, and if not, hope you’re feeling defiantly alive. Peace, peeps. >^.^<
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