I'm having muscle knots or cramps in right upper arm in the middle of the nite, also find my toes cramping every now and then. I have been taken a high calcium with boren and told no need to take magnesium to absorb it.since stopped it because i was getting spurs on my fingers and felt it might be the high calcium. now the doctors say these knots or cralps i'm getting might be do to lack of magnesium and suggest I take large dose of a week of Slow Magnesium. only homeopathic i'm taking is 30x.arsen. iod. once a week. what are your thoughts towards my new situation added to all the others i've mentioned before, like mitral valve prolaps, allergies, postnasal,asthma, very cold, poor circulation in lower half of body, starting of hard catract.all for a zestful,82 yr. old,mostly a vegetarian and fast moving person involved in the world. open to all suggestions.

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Can also be lack of zink, use a complement of 50mgs prd day, and use lots of vit E 2000uie pr day, and lot of virgin olive oil.
Magnesium, if it shall have any effect, must be 500 mgs pr day, sideeffects is souer stools,stomach cramps, flatus etc, souer perspiration,headache, so if this happens take a break from magnesium.Mag is the most common overlooked mineral that we lack in ouer diet, and esp in vegetarians, use more Broccholi.Try to get hold of organic grown vegetables and fruit.

Make sure you are not cooking in Aluminium .......it strips Magnesium from Body along with calcium

Also Low Thyroid can cause muscle cramps and heart probs etc

I think you already take too much for too many 'different' things. You should stick to your remedy and throw out everything else - it only confuses the picture. Now take another supplement to counteract the excesses from before and create the next. Seems to me very illogical and harmful for a vigorous person like you. There is one picture here and the remedy serves it well, but if you muddle its action with so many others....
Next tiem you go home, try sticking all your keys at once in the lock and see if you can open the door that way. This has been reiterated before and like a true bovine, I will chew the cud again for you. Do not interfere with the action of a remedy by taking other medicinal substances. Hahnemann says that everything is a medicinal substance, which is taken in excess and specifically so with the elemental substances, as they reach deep in the structure of things. So the choice is entirely yours - you either come to your senses from all this and stop the nonsense or you might end up worse and worse, because of excessive use of all this stuff.
No offense meant, but if you do not want to take good advice, or cannot see it even if it is brought before you, What can anybody do?
It is not for nothing that my teacher was against self-medication.

thank you Pat,i only use glass or stainless steel,and keep tabs on thyroid with my only RX of 3/4gr.thyralar and trying to get off of it by taking Standard Process Thytrophin once a day which has reduced the need for the high 2 gr. I used to take. Yes,GM I do eat a lot of cauliflower, brockle,cabbage,brussel sprouts, one at least a day.in additon to assorted nuts and seeds, kelp, which is supposed to be high in mag.the only oil I use is pure green virgin olive oil, at least 2 tbs. a day. that and nuts,nut butters, are my only fats as cholestral is 210 and want it lower.Yes, Ben, I hear you loud and clear and having been trying VERY hard to just do one homeo. I would love to get off of all vitamins, but feel at my age, with poor digestion, poor value in foods these days,even if using only so called fresh its already lost value, I also grow a few veggies of my own organicly which is very difficult as the bugs get there before I have a chance to pick them. I was thinking a Mag Phos would replace the Slo Mag. the doctor wants me to take, which as GM says, I know they do have side effects and i do not do well with all vitamins because of all the fullers, etc.in them, thats why I dont rush out and buy what the docs. say. only reason I went to him was checking to see that it wasnt my heart, as the tightness was felt in neck and wrist.and do know right arm pains, as well as left can be felt in heart problems. I do feel the Arsen. Iod.30c once or twice a week is working for my general mucus problems of sinus, chest, Kent talks about Arsen.Iod twitching of muscles,(mine is knots & cramps) and worse from warmth(opposite for me,I dont feel good about anything cold). Do you feel I should take it more often or increase now to 200x once a week before I attempt to add the slo.mag. or the Mag.Phos as i was thinking.thanks again everyone,I need all the thoughts and thinking I can get, so I can pro and con my thinking to help my body.



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Many of your symptomes points to causticum, but i cant be certain of it, as i lack info, but you should be able to read some yoursef, the others are calc carb and calc phos, esp when it comes to cold, and not to forget rhus t, but in high age, its more likely that calc phos is the remedie, look it up, and if not able to find out, mail me your casehistorie, and ill try to find out for you.

PS, have you checked your values of vit A E D and K? If low, your a lycopodium patient.
And, Vegetarians do often lack vit K, i do not want to say that it is siginficant for all vegetarians, and that all are lyc.
The soil can yield too much alumina because of acid rain, water, so it can be a psossibility with alumina, Lycopodium too, that your veggies is to full of alumina.
Even your drinkingwater can be too full of it, esp if klorated.

As I am a follower of not only homeopathy but the Eat RIght for Your Bloodtype(name of the book) I thought I would also mention the following information:

Type 0: cauliflour, brussel sprouts, and cabbage have a negative influence on the thyroid

Type A: no cabbage

Type B, and AB: no problem with those vegetables.

Brocolli, Kale, Spinach, romaine lettuce and collard greens are good for every blood type.

thank you caroloor, i am o positive, i eat all that you mentioned and will cut down or out on those that are n/g for my type. i love veggies of all kinds, every meal has all colors in the plate, usually steamed for lunch and raw for dinner or just a sandwich packed with lettuce,spinach.this is a great BB.wish Ben/GW could take better control of their patterns and do their thing via e-mail instead, dont feel this BB is the place.

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Cabbage is very bad for anyone with Thyroid

as is Soya

Many many Throid patients have the problems you are troubled by my DH for one

Sadly we have yet to find a homeopathic answer

It could be that the whole body is so disturbed by the Thyroid disease that cure is exceptionally difficult

Also Symptoms of Thyroid patients differ from day to day and you may not have given them all to Ben or GM to work on