I found this website, thought it was interesting since many of us are dealing with tremors and/or hands shaking, etc. The site covers low Magnesium & low B-1.

I bought a bottle of Magnesium & will start it tomorrow after my monthly blood work. I'm going to request blood work to check my mag & B1 levels too.

Ruth

http://www.mybodylanguage.co.uk/shakehands.htm

Here's a little of what it says....

"Do you have shaking hands?

If you do, you could be deficient in MAGNESIUM and VITAMIN B1"

"People only slightly deficient in magnesium become irritable, high-strung, sensitive to noise, hyper-excitable, apprehensive, and belligerent. If the deficiency is more severe, or prolonged, they may develop twitching, tremors, irregular pulse, insomnia, muscle weakness, jerkiness, and leg and foot cramps; their hands may shake so badly that their writing becomes illegible."

"If magnesium is severely deficient, the brain is particularly affected. Clouded thinking, confusion, disorientation, marked depression, and even terrifying hallucinations of delerium tremens are largely brought on by a lack of this nutrient and remedied when magnesium is given."

B and magnesium certainly do cut down on body twitches and hand shaking.My lyme doc told me years ago about it

I take B at least twice a day with food sommetimes more

if I don't I get to feel and watch my muscles jump..

ditto with hand shaking. C is awesome too as a natural

medicine,but since its water soluble it has to be taken in small doses many times a day to keep a constant supply circulating (with food.) Anybody out there with lyme that doesn't have a spleen? When I was young, little, my spleen was removed. I have wondered if

this "spleenless" condition would hinder recovery.

Thanks for the group it feels real good to not feel so

alone!!! Have a good one. Alisa

just some info, if you are on certain abx like doxy, careful with mag. don't take it too close. but b vitamins are HIGHLY recommended to us.

Hi Gang; I'd defiantly say don't take the mag & ANY abx close together, I space them about an hour or two apart. Right now I'm on Biaxin & Plaquenil, wasn't paying attention to what I was doing (watching over daughter who just had surgery), tossed down 2 mag pills & then the abx on top of it. I was so sick the entire day yesterday; I wanted to throw up!!! I didn't but I'm not sure why.

I was out so I stopped & picked up a burger from McD's, thought because I hadn't eaten much that was why the nausea, but nope, burger didn't help at all.

I'm doing the mag because I have the shaking in my right hand, read abx will cause low mag, blood work was normal, but again read the deficiency is on the cellular level & you can't get that tested unless you have big bucks to blow on blood work. I was deficient on D, very low, am taking that. Pharmacist said it's best if you can get about 10 mins sun exposure after you take the D; it has something to do with how the D is absorbed. Well that's all well & good, but it's tuff to find sun in the winter; at least here in WV.

Also read that mag is excreted through urine, so it's very difficult to over dose on it; what your body doesn't need it gets rid of.

Just space any vitamin or supplement you're taking a few hours apart from your abx & you should be fine. Do some research, make sure the levels you take of vitamins & minerals don't exceed safely levels. Some of them can be too much; you can overdose on them.

Have a great day!! Ruth in WV

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