So, round about the time my sister was finishing up her stay in the hospital and transitioning home, the magnesium supplement I've been taking for a while now reformulated.
I didn't think anything about it. People reformulate all the time and it's just kind of like, "Okay?" Mostly a justification to charge more, honestly.
Regardless, I dismissed it and continued to take said supplement.
A few days later, I developed a rash on my neck.
I thought shingles because stress and awfulness.
But people who've had shingles said I wasn't in enough pain for it to be shingles. And I won't diminish their experiences, but my little bout with chicken pox as a child was minor and unremarkable (I had six whole pox and they didn't really itch.) so maybe I just do shingles weird?
But said rash didn't clear up and didn't clear up and yesterday I finally had the chance to go to the urgent care.
And they believe firmly it's an allergy.
So I spent most of yesterday wracking my brain to figure out what might have changed. Last night, as I was getting ready to take my after dinner pills (because I'm old now and have pills for different times of day), I spied the magnesium bottle and thought, "Hm."
One quick google later and did you know you can be allergic to some of the different kinds of magnesium and it causes a rash?
Apparently this time, the reformulation was actually a change.
So yeah. I won't be taking that anymore. And I'm going to go magnesium free for a month or so just to give my body time to recuperate before I poke around for another supplement. And even then, I'm going to make sure it's as close to the original I'd taken for years with no issues before diving in.
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