syb_d
01-09-2006, 01:41 PM
Read your response on taking magnesium .
I believe much of my hbp comes from anxiety. I take half a lisinopril tablet 5 mg.
How much of the magnesium do you take a day? Is there anything else to help the anxiety that you take?
Uff-Da!
01-09-2006, 04:45 PM
I took 250 mg magnesium while I was taking it regularly. Unfortunately, after a couple of times taking antibiotics this summer, I developed chronic diarrhea problems, so I went off all my supplements temporarily. Going off them hasn't helped the diarrhea any, but it is just one less thing to consider as the doctor helps me determine what to do to solve the diarrhea problem. (I need to call and find out the results of the recent biopsies.)
No, I don't take anything else for anxiety. I'm retired, so my anxiety level now isn't that great compared to when I was still employed.
Lenin
01-10-2006, 09:00 AM
Uff-da,
If your antibiotics were either clindamycin or Bactrim/Septra (sulfamethozole and trimethoprim...pardon the spellings), make sure they culture for Clostridium difficile (C-Dif for short). It's a bug that is getting particularly virulent and can cause MURDEROUS diarrhea. It had been a benign colon resident but is getting more and more vicious after it's competetors are being wiped out by these broad spectrum colon antibiotics.