u/ElSelo

I already made a post a few days ago. Thanks to everyone for the information. I already applied everything people suggested, but right now I'm at a point where I feel like I'm dying.

For the people who didn't read my previous post, I'll explain it briefly. Two years ago (I'm a 22M), I started having severe insomnia and a lot of crazy symptoms. I wasn't a functional human being at all, but I tried my best anyway. One year later, I had a blood test and found out I was vitamin D deficient, so I thought, "This is it!" I started taking 5,000 IU of vitamin D a day along with 400 mg of magnesium bisglycinate daily.

After about a month, I started feeling really bad, like I was actually dying (severe shortness of breath, as if I had asthma, strong palpitations, and severe insomnia again). I quit vitamin D forever and kept taking magnesium at 200 mg a day because I felt like it helped. Later, I increased it to 300 mg.

I had another blood test in which my vitamin D went from 18.18 to 62. My calcium was 10.4, and my serum magnesium was 1.7, right at the lower limit. Copper was deficient too. Since then, I've had severe palpitations every day, my insomnia came back, I became extremely sensitive to any sound that triggers an adrenaline spike, I have constant fatigue, spasms in my arms, muscle twitching, and endless anxiety. I feel like my nervous system is electrified.

I feel like I'm going to die soon. This is too much. The palpitations, the muscle twitching, the spasms... I can't sleep unless I take clonazepam, and even then it only helps me rest peacefully without the crazy adrenaline surges or spikes but the sleep doesn't feel good anyways, is just a patch. It's like whenever I fall asleep, my body starts going crazy, my heart, my brain..

Doctors DO NOT help.

Everyone tells me that everything is within range and that they don't treat copper deficiency because it's only 2 points below the lower limit of 70 and they are not familiarized with it.

They tell me I need to fix my sleep (as if I could) and that I just have anxiety. I honestly feel like I'm going insane. I can't get any help. I can't get a cellular magnesium test because it doesn't seem to exist in my city, and it's impossible to get it through the public healthcare system because it's "too expensive." Man i would pay it if it existed in my country

Even my family treats me like I'm a crazy person, like anxiety is the only problem. I feel so isolated.

I've been taking 400 mg of magnesium for the last 3 months, and it doesn't seem to help at all, or at least that's what I thought. Usually, whenever I stop taking it (just to test it), I start feeling even worse and worse, so I keep taking it.

I really can't understand how doctors can be this incompetent. I'm not sure what to do anymore. I feel like I'm going to stay like this forever unless a doctor actually helps me and guides me, but there isn't a single doctor in my city, not even privately, whose answer isn't just, "Everything is within range."

I feel so miserable.

Anyone has gone throught this?

Hello, I am a 22m who has been suffering a lot because of this.

About 4 months ago, I discovered that I was vitamin D deficient, so I started supplementing it (along with magnesium, obviously).

Before taking vitamin D, I already had symptoms that were messing me up: insomnia, weakness/fatigue, low libido, cognitive decline (I became absolutely stupid compared to what I used to be), and memory problems.

After about a month and a half of taking 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily, I started feeling really bad. I mean really bad. I developed palpitations, extreme fatigue (much worse than before), and even minimal physical effort would trigger palpitations. It felt like I was dying or something.

My libido dropped even further, basically to zero, and I constantly felt like I was about to faint at any moment.

I stopped the vitamin D and reduced my magnesium intake for a while. Eventually, I stabilized at around 300 mg of magnesium per day and slowly started feeling better.

During that time, I had blood work done. My vitamin D levels had recovered, my magnesium was 1.7 (right at the lower limit), and my calcium was 10.3. Other findings included copper at 67, which is considered a mild deficiency, and iron at 215, which is considered high. However, my endocrinologist said those findings were not important.

I also told her that magnesium was helping me feel better and sleep better, and she said, “Then keep taking it.”

Then came 3 glorious days. For the first time in a long time, I could sleep without melatonin. It was crazy. Magnesium alone seemed to be enough. I felt normal again. I could go to bed whenever I wanted and actually fall asleep. I remember thinking, “This is it. I finally figured it out.”

But every morning I woke up with a strange sensation in my heart. It felt like my heartbeat was outside of my body. It’s hard to explain, but the sensation became stronger every day.

I started getting tremors, more anxiety, and increasing palpitations. Eventually, it became unbearable.

My workouts were also completely ruined. Instead of the normal feeling after training, my muscles felt like they were being damaged. They hurt more than usual and felt much more rigid, which forced me to significantly reduce how often I trained.

I tried stopping magnesium. I tried taking it again. Nothing worked. In fact, I felt worse when I stopped it.

I also eat a lot of potassium-rich foods, including avocados and bananas daily.

Right now, I have constant palpitations day and night, severe insomnia, and extreme anxiety caused by all these symptoms. The anxiety has become so intense that I can't manage it without clonazepam, no matter what techniques I try.

I also feel like my nervous system is overstimulated all the time. Even something as simple as a car making a loud noise can startle me badly. My libido is still gone, and I occasionally experience random muscle contractions, although not very frequently.

I honestly feel like my best years are being taken away from me, and I hate it.

My question is: has anyone gone through something similar? If so, how did you manage to get out of it?

Extra: I have taken magnesium L-threonate, taurate, and bisglycinate combined. During the first few months, they worked great. I could clearly feel the relaxation effects, and they helped me a lot. Now, they don't seem to do anything anymore. I been taking them from months now. 300-400mg dialy with times where I paused them just to try if something change.

My insomnia also causes me to wake up multiple times throughout the night, and the palpitations never stop. At this point, they are by far my worst symptom.