Magnesium…

So… I waited a little too long to order our favorite supplements and… We ran out of our magnesium ?

I had been taking half my dosage to leave more for my hubby (I’ll share my magnesium, but if we are low on pink drink… He is going to have to wait for our next order to arrive ?). But… We completely ran out of our magnesium last night. ?‍♀️

So… I went with the old magnesium I used to use ?

My acupuncturist recommended this years ago to help my body relax and I was honestly not looking forward to trying it because my only experience with Magnesium up until that point was when they hooked me up to an IV of it while in the hospital waiting to see if my induction would work to get Victoria out 4 weeks early to stop my HELLP Syndrome symptoms. It did not feel good… But I started drinking this anyway to see if it would help. Then I stopped and let it sit in the cupboard…

Until…

Bobby was born and I had come home from the hospital and had not gone ? for 5 days and was miserable! ? And it was Christmas Eve and we were having company over. While sitting on the toilet for 3 hours, taking breaks to take a bath, and a shower to try to relax my body enough to let it “pass”, I even had to nurse on the toilet because it hurt too much to try to sit down, I read that the painkillers they sent me home with could cause constipation… Why didn’t they warn me?

I’ve had all c-sections but didn’t remember this with my first, but then again they had pumped me up with magnesium, maybe that’s why I didn’t have this issue before. So… I had my hubby make me a big cup of Natural Calm and got that ? out. It felt like it was the size of a football and I weighed myself after and had lost 5 pounds ?.

So I decided I would stop the painkillers and just take Tylenol for the rest of the c-section recovery…

Then I had my third… The ? was probably the thing I most was not looking forward to, it’s major surgery right, but I was worried about the poop ? This time I took my own magnesium with me, they are capsules, so you don’t have to mix it with water to get it down, and I am happy to report that I ? before leaving the hospital and took low dose painkillers and stopped them as soon as possible.

I’ve also learned, since then, so much more about magnesium and how much our bodies need it to function well…. Who knew?

Check out the below list, if you have any of these symptoms you may want to get in to your doctor to have them check your magnesium levels.