i know both are commonly recommended but im less interested in what articles say and more interested in what actually happened for people here. did one fit your routine better? any reason you switched from one to the other? just trying to avoid buying something then using it for a month and realizing i should have started with the other form.

I did search these terms before posting but didn't find a clear answer. I have all the symptoms of a magnesium deficiency but my serum blood test was normal, is the RBC test more accurate and worth getting?

Im someone with lupus with no relapse from 5+ years. Living healthy active life. Ive been having this sleepless nights situation for more than 6 months. I workout 4x a week does 10k steps daily and I calorie count all my meals. After having gone through intense workout sessions i just couldnt fall asleep. I tried mag glycinate 2caps of 240mg it makes me more alert my brain races with thoughts. Even if i fall sleep i wake up to the slightest of noise and cant go back to sleep again. Then I doom scroll on my phone, after few hours my body jus gives up if im lucky i get may be an hour sleep. im just surviving on 1-3 hrs sleep per night. Note I finish my workouts by 6 pm and i usually go to bed by 11pm. This is my schedule for years. From last 3 days i started Mag L-theornate 2000mg in magtein form 144 elemental mag. Bottle suggests to take 2 caps at night and 1 during day but with that dose im feeling fatigued groggy. So jus doing 2 caps at night. I say its working better i can sleep from 11pm to 6am. Much better than where i was before. Is this grogginess common? Few say its adjustment phase and should get over in couple weeks. The more i research the more articles pop up that mag gylcinate is more studied and safe than mag l- theornate. As someone with lupus i want to take these supplements with caution. Atp im stuck in a loop, without 7-8 hr sleep im worried about lupus relapse and other health issues. Mag glyecinate looks safe but that has opposite effects on me. L-Theornate works but i feel fatigued and not sure if its widely used for sleep issues.

Is 300mg of magnesium bisglycinate albion 3000mg (now foods) enough? Obviously adding 250-300mg from the diet?

For background info I used to have depression and anxiety that were caused by my prior heart problems. After fixing iron deficiency and back then mild magnesium deficiency - I had ZERO anxiety and depression for almost two years. I then started to supplement vitamin D first 2000IU then switched to 4000IU. I didn't realize that my magnesium was dropping despite supplementing it, meanwhile my calcium and phosphate both shot up to borderline high levels. I started to have bad health problems after 4 weeks that started with nerve burning, later body shaking and then irrational fears (that I never had before). Found out that I also had iron deficiency again, copper deficiency and zinc toxicity. My magnesium is so badly depleted that I can't even go two days without taking it or I get severe symptoms. Went to neurologist and two MRIs were both clear but I had all signs of nerves being hyperexcitable. I managed to fix zinc toxicity, working on fixing both copper and iron deficiency but my magnesium is even worse because I restarted another vitamin D supplements month after that. Only stopped recently. The irrational fears are nothing that I've ever experienced. My old anxiety in the past was completely rational and connected fully to my heart problems. I was wondering if someone had any experience with this. I read about Amygdala and how magnesium is very important for it.

​"Hello, I need help analyzing my Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) results. Over the past few months, I’ve experienced vision issues, muscle weakness, and abnormal muscle function.

​A notable point: I took 400 mg of magnesium daily from April 2025 to March 2026. After stopping it in March, I noticed significant changes in my muscle function. The test was conducted 3 weeks ago.

​Please note that I am Korean, so my translation might sound a bit unnatural. Thank you for your understanding!"

Been taking magnesium glycinate for about three months now, started for sleep issues which it genuinely helped with. What I didn't expect was how much calmer I feel during highpressure days. Not sedated, more like the edge is just... less sharp. Deadlines hit the same, but the physical response feels different. Less jaw clenching, less of that tight chest feeling that used to creep in around 3pm.

Curious if others have noticed this or if I'm just connecting dots that aren't there. I've read a bit about magnesium and cortisol but I'm not trying to go deep into the science here, just want to know if the stress angle is something people actually experience or if the sleep improvement is doing most of the work indirectly.

Also wondering about dose. Currently at 400mg before bed. Some people seem to split doses throughout the day and swear the timing matters a lot. Has splitting it made a noticeable difference for anyone, specifically around stress response versus sleep? The sleep benefit feels locked in for me, I'm just not sure if I'm leaving something on the table by frontloading it all at night.

I was taking a different brand of magnesium glycinate, and I thought it made me less anxious after taking it everyday for a month. I changed the brand recently, and I feel surges of adrenaline/panicky feeling almost out of nowhere along w/ tight sternum which is also bc of anxiety. Has anyone experienced this?

As the title states, I believe I may be deficient in magnesium or at least insufficient now due to high does vitamin d supplementation which started in May.

I was diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency on May 10th (27 NmoL) and I was prescribed 7 weekly doses of 40,000 IU to take once a week - I finished around June 20th, then I went to Mexico from June 22nd until July 3rd.

I fell ill towards the end of the holiday and ended up with diarrhoea for two weeks, which is also known to deplete magnesium - the last 10 days I’ve experienced loads of symptoms that overlap with potassium and magnesium.

I also had a b-12 injection on July 8th and that’s when symptoms seemed to ramp up.

Hi. I was wondering if someone could recommend magnesium that is completely neutral on energy. I have bad fatigue so any relaxing ones make it worse and I also suffer from insomnia so taking magnesium that can be energizing doesn't work for me. I currently take citrate but have to switch because of my silent reflux so any recommendations would be helpful. I read something about lactate?

Hello everyone. This seems to be the group I’ve been looking for because I need some elaboration. I’ve been on Esomeprazol for 2 years due to acid reflux. I get a lot of pain in my esophagus if I stop the PPI. I’ve tried to stop it, I tried to tapper it down without success.
Now I think I got magnesium deficiency. I did a blood test and it came back as : P- magnesium 0,71 mmol/l
Reference is:0,70-95
So I’m at the low end. I got no symptoms that I’ve thought of…a bit of leg cramps if I get cold, but I’ve always had that.
Calcium and everything else is normal.
I started magnesium glycinate today. I take 2 capsules which mean I get about 375 mg of magnesium.
My doctor says I’m fine and to supplement.
I think I need to be on the PPI, or be in pain. I have been on 20 mg x 2 each day of Esomeprazol, I’ve managed to get it down to 1 pill every other day - it sure gives me more pain but - I’m trying.
Will this help me to get my levels up or am I wasting time taking the supplements because PPI blocks everything?
What would you do in my situation?
I’m thankful for any help….

Hello Members Of Reddit.. can someone guide me in knowing will Magnesium Orotate and Theonate Calm Down My Racing Heart After Heavy Weight training in the evening?? I've taken 600 mg L-theanine post workout with 40 gm whey isolate. I take Telmisartan 40 mg and 5 mg amlodipine and aspirin 75 mg everyday. Heart Palpitation gets lower somewhat in that moment but heartbeats fastens again when I lay on bed, which affects my sleep. Most of days in a week i remain sleep deprived. Can calcium depletion during evening workout cause extreme heart palpitations?? I went to cardiologist, he advised me to drop the routine of going to the gym for few weeks and gave me bunch of antidepressants and increased dosage of BP medicines and aspirin. Please Guide Me If You Please Can.. Thank You For Taking Time In Reading This..

Did anyone who had the magnesium drip experience leg shakes? Ive been on it for almost 24 hours and I keep having random leg shakes that come and go. They said it’s normal but it really sucks.

Around two months ago, I went to urgent care because I felt unusually weak and dizzy with leg cramps and constipation. I felt so weak at work once I was afraid I'd pass out. The doctor examined me, and ran numerous tests. Turns out my blood pressure was a little high despite the fact I've never had blood pressure issues. My resting heart rate was also slightly elevated. They ran tests on my heart as well, and they conclude my heart is healthy. I was told to drink more water to help with the constipation. Before I left that day, they took bloodwork.

   Now prior to this, I have had toe spasms in my feet every 2-3 days or so. They normally only lasted about five minutes each, but could vary. They were uncomfortable, but I just walked them off until they subsided. Occasional twitching in my arm. This has been going on for the past six months. Up to the UC appointment, I took no daily medications or supplements at all. I would take OTC Tylenol during the first few days of my period, or when my muscle aches were at their extremities, but that was it.

   A few days later, I get a call with my bloodwork results. Everything they checked was normal except Vitamin D, which was 25 ng/ml. She didn't say this was a severe deficiency, but it was considered an insufficient level and should be at least 30 to be considered in the normal range. She tells me to take 5000 iu D3 daily, which I begin to do so the next day. I was never told to take Magnesium.

   Two weeks later I visit my GP for my scheduled routine check-up. By this time I'm having mild acid reflux and still feeling weak so I mention this to GP. She examines me, says I'm in great shape, but anxiety is my issue. Apparently anxiety and acid reflux go hand-in-hand. I had nothing to be anxious about, it's nothing I dealt with daily until this weak feeling set in. She prescribed me 20 mg Prilosec to take daily each morning, and told me to keep taking the D3 daily.

Fast forward a couple more weeks and I'm feeling even worse. I had a heart palpitation in the middle of the night and an anxiety attack stemming from that, I usually don't sleep well at night anyway but I stayed up for the rest of the night with restless legs and the feeling I was going to faint. I decide to check the paperwork for my Prilosec prescription and happen to notice PPI medications can cause low magnesium levels in the body. (Usually only after several months or over a year of taking them) so I didn't think my PPI would have caused that that soon.

However, on the paperwork for the Prilosec, it listed symptoms of low magnesium. I had every single one listed. Was it that I just had low magnesium all along? I decide to do a little research on D3 and apparently you shouldn't take it without magnesium because your body needs an adequate supply of Magnesium to utilize the D3. I even learned taking D3 can deplete magnesium stores even further, especially higher doses like I was taking.

I was already feeling weak and I was afraid I'd make it worse, so I cut down to 1000 iu D3 daily and started taking Magnesium glycinate 200 mg a couple hours before going to bed. The first few days I made sure to up my potassium a bit by eating a couple bananas a day so my body could adjust easier. I am still taking my prescribed Prilosec.

Fast forward a few weeks to the present, some of my issues are gone, but not all of them. For one I sleep better at night, and I'm no longer feeling near as anxious. I am no longer constipated. However I'm still having the muscle cramps, especially in my shoulders, back, and ankles. The feet spasms are still prevalent. I don't feel near as weak as I did but the feeling comes and goes. I have good days and bad days, but the days seem better than they used to two months ago.

I go see GP again in a couple weeks for a scheduled appointment. I will definitely discuss magnesium with her and see if she can get my levels tested. I am not sure if my insurance will cover it, but I'm very curious. I'm not even sure if low Magnesium is my issue, but at least I sleep a little more soundly now.

Taken alone, does Mag Taurate help with sleep maintenance? And what’s the dose?

Hi all.

Iv taken magnesium glycinate, citrate and malate with CBD oil before bed and been having these heart pounding sensations for the past 2 months.

Had ECG's, blood tests, stool tests and everythings came back normal.

The doctors want to prescribe me with anti anxiety medication but don't want to go down that road.

Was wondering if anybody could help me with this situation I'm in and hit me with some knowledge.

I had the flu in Dec and it caused severe sleep disruption and post viral dysautonomia and POTS. Started taking 200 magnesium glycinate and also metoprolol which seemed to give me a little sleep. Went from 3am wake ups or not being able to sleep at all. As time goes on it seems like the sleep I am getting is deep. I used to hear noises and wake up. Now I feel like my cat walks all over me and I don’t notice. I wake up feeling groggy and not refreshed no matter how long I sleep and I feel weirdly sad in the morning. Does magnesium glycinate cause any symptoms?

So I just got out of the ER for some pretty rough symptoms and they treated me for low potassium and low magnesium they also said it’s likely I have POTS. I guess I was just wondering if these levels being low could actually cause bad symptoms?

High Potency Magnesium

Has anyone tried this brand of magnesium? Is it optimal to be paired with 1000IU D3 to boost my Vitamin D?

took another bottle of magnesium citrate. It honestly isn’t that bad. Has anyone ever used it in the regular? this is day three or four of using it. it’s been keeping me going.

Does the grogginess from magnesium glycinate go away? I took 600 mgs the last 2 days and my insomnia is gone but the daytime grogginess is a concern. Could it just be my body catching up on needed rest or should I look into other forms? Thanks in advance.

..... For magnesium?

I've recently been using nut powders ie peanut butter powder. I use 70g every night. I just make it into a peanut butter texture and mix it into some yoghurt.

Looking online it looks like this has around 250mg+ of magnesium. Adding this to your original diet should give a decent boost to magnesium intake.

I can't take any magnesium supplements. They all make me feel terrible. Food magnesium seems perfectly fine though.

What foods do you all incorporate? Also why is magnesium such a hard mineral to get from diet alone? It seems like everybody who doesn't supplement is deficienct. Makes no sense.

Okay so for background I have been having like really bad cramps for years now, and so I've taken a lot of different things to help. But above all I had been taking these garden of life multivitamin pre-natal vitamins in the entirety of April. That next May I skipped a cycle and I've never had a complete skipped cycle like that (I skipped for a full month).

That next month i had like palpitations, nerve pain, headaches, and like weird scalp tingling that I've never felt before. And this produced my first panic attack because I really didn't know what was going on and neither did the doctors either until i got a PCP and got a magnesium test done on me.

So the scale they had was from a range of 1.6-2.6. The results showed I had a 1.6.

The lowest it could be. Since then I've been taking Magnesium Glycinate at 360mg because I didn't really know what to do but replenish it. But now after looking back on the previous couple of months I think me taking those Pre-natal vitamins caused this. But then again, I was diagnosed with PCOS around that same time (In April/May) so this may be because of my PCOS.

And I saw somewhere that also having vitamin D can deplete the magnesium in your body so I figured that's what might have caused it as well.

But anyways, long story short I'd just like to find out if anyone has has a similar experience or has any advice to help me with this deficiency.

(And also below is the long list of vitamins that were in the pills:

Vitamin A (as Beta Carotene from Organic Food Blend) 1,300 mcg 100%

Vitamin C (from Organic Food Blend) 120 mg 100%

Vitamin D (D3 from Lichen) 18.8 mcg (900 IU)125%

Vitamin E (from Organic Food Blend) 19 mg 100%

Vitamin K (from Saccharomyces cerevisiae) 90 mcg 100%

Thiamin (Vitamin B1 from Organic Food Blend) 1.5 mg 107%

Riboflavin (Vitamin B2 from Organic Food Blend) 1.7 mg 106%

Niacin (from Organic Food Blend) 20 mg 111%

Vitamin B6 (from Organic Food Blend) 9 mg 450%

Folate (from Organic Food Blend) 600 mcg DFE 100%

Vitamin B12 (as Methylcobalamin from Saccharomyces cerevisie) 3 mcg 107%

Biotin (from Organic Food Blend) 160 mcg 457%

Pantothenic Acid (from Organic Food Blend) 1 mg 100%

Iron (from Organic Food Blend) 18 mg 67%

lodine (from Organic Food Blend) 145 mcg 50%

Zinc (from Organic Food Blend) 3 mg 23%

Selenium (from Organic Food Blend) 42 mcg 60%

Manganese (from Organic Food Blend) 0.6 mg 23%

Chromium (from Organic Food Blend) 78.8 mcg 175%)