i never realised the effect magnesium was having for me until i stopped taking it about a week ago. I was taking magnesium citrate by solgar, which i thought was really good, but the stores ran out and they don't sell it here any more. So naturally I ran out, and I have noticed an increase in really disturbing symptoms like depression (everything looks grey again), anxiety, obsessive thinking and general spacyness and foggyness. I can attribute some of this to taking methionine recently for histamine issues, which I'm pretty sure has brought back mercury and heavy metal symptoms because of the sulfur content, so I've stopped taking this, and dusted off the algin and taking some of that to ease symptoms. (guess that solves the question of whether I still have mercury).

So for the past week I have had to use this crappy amino acid chelate magnesium that I have, which is meant to be the most absorbable form, but I never have had a good experience with it and am constantly suspicious that it is making me worse, more depressed etc. So i stopped taking that and bought pretty much the only other form that I can get here in Australia, which was orotate. I took my first one last night and I must say it is working fairly well. I slept pretty good last night, fell asleep easily, and today I have taken regular doses of it and have gradually gotten better as the day progresses! I know orotate probably has the lowest amount of elemental mag in it but it really seems to be doing the trick! It seems to have a much more positive mental effect than any other mag form I have tried, including the citrate which is also meant to be absorbable. Anyone else had this type of expereince with different forms of magnesium?