I've written about my experiences with Internal Shaking and I wanted to share something with all of you. I'd gone from doctor to doctor to doctor leaving with shrugged shoulders, iron deficiency anemias, sciatica, endured EMGs of my arms and legs, Somatosensory Evoked Potentials to rule out demyelinating diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, and experienced an episode of tachycardia that the EMT's called in front of my bosses a "panic attack." After my friend had a heart attack at 2:30 AM and I accompanied him to the hospital, I began thinking that maybe it was time to go for a checkup. Good thing I did!

My blood pressure was extremely high and rather than treat me immediately with medication (he didn't know if I had white coat hypertension), he put me on a caffeine-free, chocolate, alcohol and licorice-free diet for 3 weeks and told me to take 2 tablets of Slow-Mag (Magnesium). At the end of three weeks he was going to reassess and take an echo.

My best friend had gone to this doctor a couple of days earlier and suggested I see him. He put her on Slow-Mag, too. I didn't know that until we were having coffee last night and I mentioned that since I'd been taking the Slow-Mag, I feel calmer and more at ease and the internal shaking, the constant vibration in my left leg, arm and lip, were almost non-existent. She said she'd felt calmer, too.

So, last night, I went online and researched magnesium deficiencies and came across a list of symptoms that fit me to a tee! After all the running and lack of explanations, I'd come across a doctor who was completely honest with me. He said that doctors don't know everything and patients find it hard to hear because we look to them for answers when there may be no medical explanation. My sister is a doc and she said the same thing to me.

Well, he told me about a female patient who is experiencing menopause symptoms who "yells" at them (lovingly, he said) because she doesn't understand why they (men) don't understand how and what we feel.

He put me on magnesium supplements for my heart and high blood pressure and when I looked up the symptoms of magnesium deficiency it said "tremors" and some menopausal symptoms, PMS-like symptoms, disturbance of vibratory sense, carpal tunnel syndrome, high blood pressure, tachycardias and the problem I'd been complaining about with lights and my vision at night.

At last! At last! My shaking is almost gone. I wanted to share this with you.

Bebe

You mentioned that you had taken slo-mag and it helped.  You also mentioned your doc put you on a magnesium supplement and it has really helped you.  My problem is that I have many of the symptoms of magnesium deficiency which include awful internal shaking, muscle cramps and dizziness A LOT.  I've tried magnesium supplements and they seem to have a laxative effect.  I have no tried the slo-mag brand however.  Anyone else have this problem with Mag. supplements?

Slow Mag doesn't bother me at all. It's a 64 mg enteric coated tablet and I take it twice a day. I have GERD so I take Prilosec and Axid and perhaps that's why it hasn't bothered me. To tell you the truth, I'd rather live with mild diarrhea than with the vibrating.  

I did research on it and found mostly positive stuff. I feel calmer, too, because it has a soothing effect on the central nervous system. For me, the benefits outweigh the deficits. I still have the vibrating at times but very slightly and sometimes I don't even feel it at all.  

Good luck and please let me know how it turns out for you.

Smiles,Bebe

I've been talking about magnesium for the internal shaking associated with menopause for nine years. I often use the expression, "when it spasms, give it magnesium." If  you check the recommendations page, you'll see I recommend 500-1000 mg. magnesium for palpitations, anxiety, shaky feelings and migraines among other things.

Glad you found out and it's helping.

Dearest