I am at wits end with this so i might give it a try. Can i get it at a pharmacy?

Is there a special brand you are taking? I took magnesium and it helped for awhile. Now that I found wheat to be a big problem causing constipation in me I wouldn't mind trying magnesium again. I try to revisit supplements that didn't work for me in the past when I found a fix for another symptoms. THanks for mentioning this!

Hello,
I'm new here and am really looking for some help. I am o the point where I will try most anythng. The magnesium that you have had such success with really interest me. Is it any special brand or can I use just any magnesium supplement. Any help you can give me would be very much appreciated.
Joanee

I bought GNC brand because it has a minimal amount of additives. The specific type is magnesium oxide. It's safe.

Thanks so much for your info on the magnesium. My doctor has me on magnesium citrate and it gives me heartburn so bad I could hardly stand it. Now I just pray it works as good for me as it did for you. Here's hoping and Thanks again.
Joanee

I don't have IBS but I can give two recommendations for quality Magnesium...one is Natural Calm magnesium citrate powder, you can get it vitacost.com for a very reasonable price. Another type of magnesium is Ionic Magnesium which is already in a liquid, ionic form...the exact form your body prepares for absorption into the cells...Magnesium must be converted to an ionic state in order for it pass through the ion channels in the cell membranes..these channels act as gates to control what goes in an out of the cell. You can Google Ionic Magnesium to purchase online. Any magnesium you take whether it's magnesium chloride, magnesium malate, magnesium citrate, magnesium glucanate must be reduced into an ionic state before the body can absorb it...that's why some people have problems absorbing magnesium. In any event never resort to using Magnesium Oxide...it is trash...it has a very low absorption rate...for more information on magnesium I suggest readying Magnesium by Carolyn Dean, MD or Magnesium Factor by Mildred Selig,MD.

It did the opposite for me. After my kidney surgery, they gave it to me for the first five days and it was like handing me some cement! I had a terrible time with rock hard stools that came out mostly white from undigested Magnesium! OF course all the pain meds from my epidural and morphine tabs made it worse.

I been taking this for weeks and it didn't help my severe c from IBS.I have no luck I swear.

Thanks for the info, I use to take magnesium then quit taking it, Now I been C for sometime. maybe thats the problem Thanks again

I cannot find the comments I want to reply to, after registering. They are gone. So irritating. The person had my exact problem - IBS and slow peristalsis, fiber makes it worse. I am constantly told in person and in print that fiber and lots of water is THE cure for chronic constipation but it is NOT for me. It either does no good or makes it worse. Please share any help you may have gotten, anybody, for these problems!!! Thank you, God bless.

Hi Stefunny,

how long have you been on magnesium and how long has your condition been cured? does it also help with bloating, if you do have bloating?