Magnesuim supplments - All at once or throughout the day?

Does your doctor know??I ask because 1000 mgs is the max of all sources (supplement AND what you get in your diet) so you may be overdoing it a bit. I would try cutting back to 750 and see if that still works, else make sure your doctor keeps an eye on you.Since it is an osmotic laxative I suppose it depends on what you want to accomplish.If you want all the stool more evenly wettened I would think taking some with each meal would do that.If you want more of a big bolus of water to flush you out that would be more of a take all at once thing. That would be more likely to do that.K.

i take 500mg per day, 250mg with my first meal and another 250mg with dinner. with my first dose, i also take 250mg of chelated calcium and a multivite & mineral, 500mg of C and a fish oil gelule. at dinner i take my mag plus another 500mg of C and a flax oil pill. does the job for me pretty ok. g-

I find that if I take alot of fiber during the day I tend to have gas and start going in 'bits and pieces' throughout the day. I don''t really know if this is healthy to do but it works for me. I take a mulivitamin, extra vitamin B, omega 3 oil and flaxseed oil and 2 citrucel tablets during the day. At night I take 800mg of magneisum, perdiem (no senna), tsp. of benefiber, Vitamin C, 2 more citrucel, and a cup of tea made from Experience. I figure it's like eating a really high fiber dinner although I do tend to eat well also. It's just trial and error. I do get gas at night often but I'd rather have it at night than during the day. I almost always have a pretty big BM after drinking coffee for a couple of hours in the morning.

I was taking too much magnesium for a while and the way I knew it was too much was that I would get a spacey feeling in the brain and a weak-kneed feeling. So now I take a 133 mg mag pill at breakfast with 600 mg calcium, 125 mg mag in a multi-mineral that also has 250 mg calcium with lunch and supper. I also take the flax oil gelules (1000 mg each) before breakfast and supper. I do great with that. I avoid harsh fiber at all costs.