Re: I feel much better after 3 days on magnesium

I took up to 3000 mg a day at first (this is quite normal for some people when they begin) and got some pretty crazy reactions. I would hyperventilate, get the chills, my skin would flush red on my face, hands and ears and my pulse went up to about 95 from it's normal resting rate of 70.

These would last for about 5 to 6 hours and only happened in the early days. It seems a little simplistic to just say it was definitely x or y but it did fit all of the symptoms of a herxheimer reaction which is supposed to be bacterial die off.

So yeah i'd definitely be careful at first especially if you think you have a bacterial infection. It was well worth it for me though as it spared so much suffering and got my magnesium levels up so much faster than the capsules ever could. It's also very inexpensive if you buy the flakes and make your own oil.