What should myeloma patients know about magnesium?

What should myeloma patients know about magnesium?

So magnesium. I don't think everybody needs supplementation of magnesium. Again, and I think it's important to look at levels. Low magnesium levels are associated with low calcium levels or low, other, like other minerals or elements in the blood, can be low when you have low, magnesium. Also, having kidney disease can lead to low magnesium levels.

Proton pump inhibitors. So a lot of patients take pantoprazole or omeprazole. That can lead to chronic use can lead to low magnesium. Drugs like cisplatin can affect the kidneys and lead to low magnesium.

It's important to have the mineral levels in your blood checked if you have symptoms such as nausea, weakness, twitching, cramping, and irregular heartbeat.

So it may be something if there is a thought that it may be low, it can be checked, but it doesn't need to be something that everybody should be taking. If the levels are severely low and it's starting to cause problems, then that I.V. magnesium sulfate is usually used in the hospitals to treat it. If the levels are not that low and it's something chronic that's being treated, it could be treated with magnesium oxide.

But magnesium oxide tends to cause a little more diarrhea and you should spread out the doses or things like magnesium chloride or other supplements. So again, I don't think everybody needs it. But that's something you can look into with, your doctor if your levels are low. But I wouldn't recommend checking it for everybody unless there's a specific reason.