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my drug therapy for thalassemia intermedia
Andy Battaglia:
The dose you take would be considered as the higher amount, or the amount advertised on the product. Each form of magnesium has a different percentage of elemental magnesium, and then for each there are varying percentages of bio-availability.
The doses I advise tend to be conservative, as it is general and it is intended to address basic needs. The doses a patient uses may be higher, especially for certain nutrients. Your dose of magnesium is within acceptable ranges and makes sense in the context of your treatment program.
How is your chelation going?
andyross:
Hi Andy,
thanks for your reply. I was asking about MAG2 dosage because it seems I'm having some problems when I take all the sachet but I don't know if it depends on citric acid in it that is not tolerated by my poor stomach suffering a lot in this period.
So in order not to stop MAG2 I was wondering if I could take less or change the sachet with the bottle (no citric acid in it).
I don't really understand if it's a problem with MAG itself or the eccipients. And I realized in the past how important was to take MAG for my health!
Or maybe I'm taking too small protection for my stomach (Pantorc 20mg a day).
It's not a good period for me and for my stomach too...........it seems it's not working at all.......the digestion is too slow.......I felt acid in the mouth..........I lost appetite.......and I lost weight too........I feel my liver a little bit heavy..........
About the chelation........I tried desferal just not to put another medicine on my stomach but since I' not doing transfusion I felt bad with the siyntoms I read in many post here after 4 or five somministration and I stopped (agreed with the doctor).
Now we decided that's not my priority since my ferritin is about 500.
My priority is the stomach and to restart the full dosage of my good working cure.
I don't know if digestive problems could come from the 2cm stone in the gallbladder or just from the stomach or from the fatty and tired liver.
Unfortunately I didn't ever drank tea during meals but I'm trying now.
And I didn't tried yet any natural chelators (Green tea extract, IP6, Wheatgrass) but I am very anxiuos to try as soon is possible.
Thanks a lot again.
Andy
Andy Battaglia:
I think you should cut the dose in half and see if your system tolerates it better. If it doesn't, you might consider trying a different form of magnesium. One thing I learned while reading about the different forms of magnesium is that in the end, it makes little difference, even with organic versus inorganic forms. They are all absorbed well enough to be of value.
andyross:
Now I'm taking MAG2 in bottle (without citric acid) and it seems that my system (stomach in particular) tolerates it better. I'm continuing with Pantorc 20mg in the morning to protect my stomach. And finally I'm having tea all the day specially during meals. Do you suggest the black or the green one? With or without sugar?
Tomorrow I will have blood analysis to check the whole situation.
I continue to have difficult digestion e I feel my liver a little tired and heavy.
So let's see what's wrong. Pantorc eliminates the fire in my stomach but doesn't ameliorate digestion.
As soon as possible I would like to start with supplements you told me (Wheatgrass, Green tea extract, IP6).
I'm sure they could give me more help.
In fact the point is that the cure I've been doing for so long works fine enough when everything else is ok, for instance stomach, liver, no virus but when something goes wrong with flu, gastritis, etc my situation goes down and I don't know what to do and what to take since I'm already taking many medicines and I'm afraid to take strong therapy like antibiotics for instance.
So I hope the natural supplements above could help me about that!
andyross:
I would like to give you some news about the therapy I'm having for many years (low dose hydroxyurea plus magnesium and carnitine for thalassemia intermedia).
My last blood tests were 11 hgb with 0.01 percentage of fetal hgb.
I haven't checked fetal hgb for long time but I can remember my starting level was significantly higher than now.
First I was surprised enough because I have always known that my therapy was about fetal globin reactivation but yesterday I found on the net this document I link for you below.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7646994
In this trial they discover another potential effect of hydroxyurea on adult beta globin.
I would like to ask Andy what he thinks about.
Thanks.
Andy
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