The Sign Taurus And Magnesium

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The places on my fingers where I cut the tip of the thumb and index finger on my right hand has about healed up. There is still a small scab on the thumb, but it isn't bothering me much now. Now, if the hangnail on the same hand will heal up I'll be a happier man. Playing the piano and hitting that sore spot on the keys can be very painful.

Since I write about my daily life here I can't not write about the pain I experience 7/24 now. It's certainly a consideration in writing. Rheumatoid arthritis is a mofo. My future doesn't look bright. The medicine I've been transferred to might be doing something to the disease, but it's doing absolutely nothing for the symptoms of the disease.

The diet I've been following is doing zip-shit for me too. If it was helping I wouldn't be hurting so persistently. There'd be a break once in a while. The pain-killers might actually kill the pain for a change.

There has to be something positive to write about. That positive is magnesium and what it's doing for the constipation I experience as a side-effect of the prescription drugs I'm taking by the handful. To be fair, most of the "pills" I take are vitamin and mineral supplements.

Magnesium is the main ingredient in Milk Of Magnesia. That's why it is a positive for me. Too much or too little magnesium in my body has negative results. I'm trying to balance it out so that being full of shit doesn't make me crazy. Why am I always the last to know?

The first magnesium supplement pills I bought worked as well as I could have hoped for as far as regulating my bowel movements. I followed the dosage advice that I should take about as much magnesium by milligram as how much calcium I take.

I've been prescribed 600 mg of calcium twice a day. I get them from the VA Hospital when I order them over the internet. That's the biggest improvement for dealing with a government bureaucracy that has come down the pike ever since I've been using their services. Getting my prescriptions filled online saves everybody a lotta trouble.

That's 1200 mg of calcium I take a day for all the osteo-whatever problems I've been diagnosed with. According to the formula I decided arbitrarily to follow in dosing myself with a magnesium supplement it means I should take 1200 mg of magnesium. I haven't been taking that much magnesium. I hadn't done the numbers until now.

Even at the dosage I've been taking I haven't experienced diarrhea, but I've been what felt like close a couple of times. I must be dosing at about the right level and that's very promising. I've experienced specifically defined events where being full of shit (constipated) brought misfortune in it's train. A couple of times, extreme misfortune.

I honestly believe I developed the arthritis and bone problems they say I have because of my diet and toilet issues. That's not to say that I don't have a genetic propensity for it to happen.

To be or not to be constipated, for me, that's frequently been the question. I haven't always lived a lifestyle that made a designated toilet available to me or the privacy to use it when I needed it to be there.

Another positive result from using the magnesium oxide supplement pills has to do with leg cramps at night. I've just this moment decided that arthritis is a type of bone cramp. That might seem nutty until I think about how porous bones can be, and porous bones can have cramps just like muscles can.

Remember my disclaimer. I'm not trying to tell the truth here. I'm exploring all sorts of possibilities. Members of species homo sapiens has to search for possibilities that only could be so because of the species flaw that prevents them from realizing their own possibilities in real time.

The contemplation of my life is about these not so obvious possibilities. It's why I have to be alone with myself so often. Maybe I created a species flaw for homo sapiens in order to paradoxically force them into accepting a true need for living a life of no blame.
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