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Several issues, please bear with me.

Hello, and thank you for your time, am gonna briefly explain my history to give anyone helping, the complete overview;
Am a 25 year old male living in Norway, around 70kg and 174cm tall.

Suffered from depression at young age due to acne, general existential despair and a whiplash that left my neck and back hurting ever since(elementary school). Took "Roaccutan" for acne, it left me even worse off mentally.
After years of feeling unsatisfied and unhappy i started smoking weed, it was very fun, but after years my addiction got to a point i was smoking everyday, all the time, eventually life caught up to me and i had to get back into work, but right before that i had a stomach flu that might have developed into IBS, along with anxiety, which came on very strongly if i smoked weed, i quit drugs(doing only weed) and slowly recovered using SSRIs(cipralam).

2 years of working in as a cab driver, my IBS issues was starting to really tear on me even though i changed my eating habits, quit smoking etc according to the IBS recommended plan. My anxiety came back as the constant stomach(bowl) pain eventually burned me out, my neck and back was getting worse and sitting on my arse all day gave me 20kg of weight up to 84kg(i was 64kg), but with my bowl issues and anxiety peaking and the more or less resignation from work, i lost that weight in around one month.

when i quit weed(due to severe anxiety attacks) i also started getting myclonic jerks at rest, and everywhere except head area, they are subtle and rare, but during anxiety they are frequent and less subtle. I've started on Cipralam again, but they never healed my jerks.

In the last months i've been actively training my back(was having external chest pains, due to the ribs i assume)
I just now quit masturbating(from once a day) since i read that too much could have bad effects on my mentality. And doing kegels, because my physiotherapy guy told me that would help my lower back.
taking vitamins and omega acid supplements, even though my bloodwork came back very good, my fecal test was also good. I have not taken any other tests.
My anxiety is much better now, but still there, IBS is still a *****.
It's worth mentioning that am not suffering from depression like i did when i was young, i just want to get well and stop having these now small attacks(which happen if i get little rest(sleep) or even when am in a very slightly stressful situation) it seems like my brain is still producing to much adrenaline in response to stress.

Thank you for bearing with me, I guess my question is; will my jerks go away? also any general advice will be greatly appreciated.

PS: Roacutan was/is a very harsh drug, and revealed to have terrible side effects and actually used in chemo therapy, i will never recommend it to anyone. It can cause long term damage, and some of them coincide with my issues, but am not putting all my cards on that.

-T
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it's easy to mix these things up :) Magnesium was one of the things i specifically asked my doctor about, he check my levels and they where good, the main reason was that during my worst anxiety times now at the beginning of the year, i discovered at some rare occasions that i was choking for a heartbeat, which i read up on and found out to be premature ventricular contractions(scared the **** out of me) It did however pass after 1 week or so. My doctor didn't seem to worry that much, hopefully i don't need to either.
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Wait, I goofed, I meant magnesium citrate -- duh on me.  Calcium will just leach out more magnesium.  Sorry.  By the way, magnesium is mostly found in green leafy vegetables (the best source of calcium as well), so that could be a problem.  Magnesium also affects digestion, though too much can cause diarrhea.  Sorry again.
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Thank you for your input, i will try supplemental calcium citrate and see if it helps.

after several months of testing different diets and abstaining from certain things without any change i decided to just continued having a varied diet, i still abstain from wheat products as much as possible since i don't think it's healthy in the long run(i did try to increase my fiber intake, no change) my diet now consist of fish, healthy organic meat, some fruit and probably not enough vegetables, but i do try. I also drink very little soda, mostly water and some milk(also a milk substance high in natural stomach bacteria)i rarely crave candy anymore.

My stomach(bowl) issues almost exclusively happen when my body feels ANY form of stress, which ranges from little sleep, forgetting to eat(i no longer feel hunger as i once did) to the simple expectancy of waking up for work or any responsibility at all, no common medication worked so i quit em all, except salts to bring down the acid buildup, but it never solved the problem only delayed them. What is specially weird is that things that i consciously consider trivial as a stress factor, my digestive system reacts to as if it was the end of days.
  Prolonged(1-2 hours) IBS issues gives me diarrhea and hunching pain, i've never passed out, but the pain once took me to the edge where i lost vision, buzzed hearing, and loss of balance, i smacked my head very hard that day.    

I did get 10 pills of anxiety medication(diazepam 2mg) when i first experience it, i still have 3 left as i never really wanted to depend on these things, i'd rather prevail and conquer my anxiety attacks like a boss.

I do not worry day to day, nor indulge in depressive thoughts, i did enough of that when i was much younger, am either stronger or simply built a subconscious wall, which wouldn't surprise me since my mind is obviously already playing tricks with me.  I do however worry about my future health and work prospects if my health is the way it is now.
"Evil circles" seems to be my theme.

-T      

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IBS is usually related to diet.  You haven't said anything about your diet, but it's a digestive problem usually made worse in the long run if you keep taking medication for it as it causes rebound acidity.  Don't know anything about the jerks you're suffering, though they can be a side effect of antidepressants.  Citalopram evidently did well by you, but it is known for producing head pressure and maybe these jerks as well, but all antidepressants and anxiety meds work on the pathways used by magnesium, and magnesium is responsible for relaxing the muscles.  That may be one reason why so many of these meds list as a common side effect cramping and nerve pain and jerk-like movements.  So one possibility to try is to take supplemental calcium citrate or another well absorbed form with meals or at bedtime but apart in time from when you take your anxiety meds and antidepressants and see if it helps any.
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