I have constant muscular cramps, and I have random muscle pains. I'm feeling anxious and depressed with these constant symptoms, and am taking antidepressants for it. The diuretics are heling for now but I can't live without them. I'm scared.
Well, this sounds typical, and it includes myself (anxiety, fear). The common response, is..
I've been taking diuretics for my symptoms.
It pains me to read this. That's compounding the problem isn't it ? If I had cramps, and myalgia symptoms, including, the last thing I should do is to be taking more diuretics and anti-depressants. Chemical diuretics tend to drain the body of salts, including that of Magnesium, Potassium which would further result in pain and stress in a situation like this.
Here lies the problem. Since Meniere's technically is a disease that no one yet know how to cure, and there is no single cause for the problem, it would make sense that the associated symptoms be observed carefully. If I was getting Meniere's symptoms, together with constant cramps, insomnia, anxiety - I would be rightfully staying away from the shorter cure symptoms of flooding myself with mineral draining chemicals, and see if I could be balancing my nutrients back together.
Whilst you have read this far, please take the time to try something. Search medical journals, and look into the role of anti-depressants and it's effects on Magnesium levels in the body.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198864/ Something like this, and there are more.
In the case, someone is clearly displaying signs of Magnesium deficiency, I would be likened to have myself checked for it's deficiency, yet, so many with this disease, cannot see the barrel that has rolled down the hill, continue to flood themselves with more diuretics, more anti-depressants to further deplete themselves to the oblivion. It is beyond comprehension.
On another note, there is a saying - you cannot create something out of nothing. Well well, nuclear physics have of course proved us wrong on that note. Energy can create something, theoretically. But people forget in such simple terms that there are no nuclear reactors in plants. It's a solar receiver, that pulls energy from the sun and joins together with water, carbon, nitrogen to form cellulose and other fibres. In some places, the soil is rich in Magnesium, and plants that require Magnesium are able to pull this from the ground - and bind these chemically for our nutrition.
Yet you constantly hear the same story - you can get Magnesium from beans, herbs, pumpkins. One thing I know, they grow, and easily with little Magnesium from the soil. Most of Australian soil is low in Magnesium, you can't expect these plants to suddenly create it's own source of Magnesium. We're a nation full of sandstone.
I might add, you'd be lucky if much of your green vegetables are grown in decent well composted soil, as opposed to glyphosated dead earth starved of nutrients. Maybe, most of them are grown in water based hydroponics systems - coupled together with the high stress age we live in, how can this be helpful for someone with low Magnesium ?
