Naturopathic IV Magnesium Treatments For Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is often difficult to address.

Prescription pain medications can help manage symptoms but often come with undesirable and potentially dangerous side effects, such as a weakened immune system and medication dependency.

Fortunately, the many benefits of IV magnesium therapy may offer a safer alternative for the treatment of chronic pain.

Keep reading to learn more about how magnesium and how naturopathic IV therapy can help with the treatment and long term management of various kinds of chronic pain.

What Is Magnesium?

Magnesium is the fourth most common mineral in your body and helps with a wide range of cellular processes, including:

• Making DNA
• Helping muscles contract and relax
• Brain function, such as nerve stimulation
• Regulating your heartbeat

Despite its importance to human health, magnesium deficiency is fairly common.

If you are dealing with a magnesium difficulty, you may notice the following symptoms:

• Weakness and chronic fatigue
• Depression
• Loss of appetite
• Nausea
• Muscle cramping or tingling
• High blood pressure
• Heart disease

Fortunately, naturopathic IV magnesium treatment can help treat the side effects of magnesium deficiency.

Various types of magnesium treatments are used to help manage the symptoms of different types of ailments.

For example, magnesium oxide is often used as a naturopathic treatment for chronic migraines.

Magnesium citrate, on the other hand, is often used as a naturopathic treatment for constipation.

A Toronto naturopathic doctor can help you determine the best type of magnesium treatment for your symptoms.

The Role Magnesium Plays In Pain

When you experience chronic pain, it is typically due to excessive stimulation of a brain chemical known as NMDA.

Traditional pain medications treat chronic pain by reducing excess NMDA stimulation; however, they often come with significant side effects.

Research points to magnesium is an alternative treatment for various types of chronic pain.

For example, magnesium’s ability to help muscles contract and relax makes it an effective treatment for muscle pain.

In other cases of chronic pain, such as nerve pain, it is less clear how magnesium helps.

Nevertheless, many individuals experiencing chronic pain find relief in regular naturopathic magnesium IV treatments.

How Can IV Magnesium Therapy Help With Chronic Pain?

Regular IV magnesium therapy can help treat chronic pain due to a variety of conditions.

However, since magnesium treatment may interact with certain medications and antibiotics, your naturopathic doctor will consult with you beforehand to make sure this treatment is right for you.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the benefits of magnesium therapy.

1. It Can Relieve Migraines

If you experience frequent headaches or migraines, you may be suffering from a magnesium deficiency.

Magnesium oxide, which contains high levels of magnesium, has been found to be an effective treatment for chronic migraines.

Because it’s a naturally occurring element that we need to maintain good health, magnesium treatment is typically much safer than traditional migraine medication.

Nonetheless, individuals receiving magnesium treatment at high doses may still experience some side effects, such as:

• Abdominal cramping
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Low blood pressure

2. Deficiency Is Associated With Fibromyalgia

Research suggests that women with fibromyalgia often suffer from magnesium deficiency.

Subsequently, regular IV therapy for fibromyalgia can help you manage symptoms, such as muscle spasms, weakness, and back pain.

If you are living with fibromyalgia, magnesium therapy may also help reduce your number of “tender points”.

3. It Can Relieve Muscle Cramps

Individuals suffering from magnesium deficiency may also be at a higher risk for muscle cramping.

Since magnesium can help your muscles contract and relax, it may also provide treatment for chronic pain due to muscle cramps.

Why Choose IV Magnesium Therapy?

Although widely available in pill form, magnesium therapy is most effective when administered intravenously (IV).

IV treatment involves using a small needle and inserting it directly into your vein to administer treatment.

By administering treatment through an IV, magnesium is more effectively absorbed into your blood stream than through digestion.

This is especially true for individuals living with conditions that make it harder to absorb nutrients via digestion, such as collagenous colitis, Crohn’s disease, and other digestive disorders

Other benefits of IV therapy include:

• Not having to swallow any pills
• Hydration of the body and detoxifying of the liver
• Added natural vitamins, amino acids, and minerals

Questions? Ask Dr. JJ!

The experience of chronic pain can be isolating, but you don’t have to go through it alone.

I’m Dr JJ, a naturopathic doctor with a special interest in helping individuals manage all types of chronic pain.

If you want to learn more about naturopathic IV magnesium treatments for chronic pain, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Book your appointment with me, Dr. JJ, today.