fustrated, fatigue, undiagnosed for 8 moonhts now

[badone662]

back in sept. i had MRSA it was coming back every 2 months, knock on wood it stopped, I have been on many antibiotics. I then had little cold in dec. was put on ketek, had bad allergic reaction, i got confused, throat closed and had like a zeisure. SInce then i have been very weak, head is weird, numbess in right leg arms chest, burning in head and lost 20 pounds.  I have had every test possible i think.  all come back neg.  MRI's, ct scans, mammograms, blood work endo, stress and echo card.  I am being sent to rheumotologist for possible cfs.  does anyone have answers.  going crazy.  of course you can't get dr appt for a month.  going to talk to physc on wed.

[star queen]

MRSA is a pretty bad infection and can really "bring you down".  Try taking a magnesium supplement.  Depression, fatigue, muscle spasms, apathy, are some symptoms of magnesium defiency.  If that is your problem, try taking about 300-400mg/day.  You will see results within 1-3 days.  If you have no improvement within a week, that it not your problem.  You can also go to the search engine Ask.com and put in "Magnesium and fatigue".

[badone662]

i have had blood work done so wouldn't of shown there?

[star queen]

No.  Magnesium levels are a special test.  Few doctors even think about it.  Magnesium is a water-soluable electrolyte generally sufficient in the diet, but when a person has been very ill, or hasn't eaten well, or on a high protein diet for a while, Magnesium gets low and you will get symptoms such as yours. I don't know that Magnesium is your problem, but it is a cheap and easy thing to check either by your doctor or by taking a supplement for a few days.