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Laura,

Do you suffer from Crohn's disease? I have read info sources that say sufferers of Crohn's disease have trouble absorbing Magnesium.

I don't think I have an intestinal disorders except that I used to drink 1/2 gallon of coffee daily. Also, I was once a very heavy drinker, and I would - don't mean to be gross -see mucus in my stools. Also, I was on an extremely high fat/high protein diet.

Now that I am mainly on a plant based diet with just a little meat, I really don't take magnesium citrate to often any more. My stools are already comfortably loose due to all the greens and whole grains that I now consume.

The health industry provides all kinds of disease names for different symptoms. What seems apparent to me is that certain symptoms can have multiple causes. In my case it seemed to be diet and lifestyle that caused me to have the symptoms of AS. I had no symptoms until the age of 43. I am gene negative.

Somewhere I read that health begins in the intestines. Magnesium is a great laxative. Take too much and you will have the runs. But cleaning out my intestines by supplementing with magnesium citrate seems to have been very beneficial to my health. Magnesium relax's muscles and helps you sleep better, among other things.



I've never been diagnosed w/Crohn's and am really hoping I don't have it. However, about the time all of this started I took Calcium to help regulate my intestines. It worked for awhile, then it stopped--I think mainly due to stress. I do know that I had to take a Calcium tab that had low magnesium in it as I had read that it can work the other way (give you the runs), and that's what I was trying to avoid.

Now I have to be on Questran due to having my gall bladder removed last year. Too much bile. My diet has always been decent to good. Not great--I don't always eat a balanced diet yet I am not a junk food junkie, only have 1 cup of cappuccino a day, don't smoke, barely eat fast food, and rarely drink (especially now that I'm on painkillers in the evenings).

Having the runs when I have to go somewhere used to give me panic attacks, so there is no way I would ever purposefully put myself on something that very well may cause me to get that way. Not worth the stress and anxiety. I wish it were the opposite though. I'm willing to try just about anything once.

~Laura~