numbness in right foot and hand, internal tremors, and more

Hi. At the beginning of 2011 I started experiencing a lot of problems that included nausea, twitching in the lip and eye, night sweats, stomach cramps and flu-like symptoms. These escalated into extreme anxiety, depression, internal tremors, weakness down the left side of my body, loss of balance, feeling completely spaced out, swelling and pain on the sole of my foot, shaky vision, pain in my neck and shoulder, very frequent urination (at intervals of 20 mins. to 2 hours at the most), insomnia, extreme sensitivity to noise, gum numbness and bleeding and, finally, electric shocks in my brain and small seizures. I was also told I was 'just stressed' when, in fact, I was completely fine before starting to feel ill. After extensive research on the internet and coming to same conclusions as you (ms, Parkinson's, etc.) I stumbled upon a page about magnesium deficiency. At first I didn't take much notice of it, but then I decided it wouldn't hurt me to try to take magnesium supplements. Sure enough, all the symptoms that had been plaguing me for about nine months, disappeared within about three weeks. Thinking it might just be a coincidence, I kept reading about magnesium deficiency and I was astonished to find all my symptoms perfectly matched those described, down to the ones I hadn't at all connected with the more serious ones (pain in the neck, for example, which I was blaming on the pillow!). I would suggest you have a look at web pages about magnesium deficiency and decide wether you might want to try to take magnesium. Check if you might have reason to believe you might have a deficiency. Have you, for example, taken any iron supplements for anemia? In my case, from what I've read, the iron supplements I took stopped the magnesium being absorbed by my body. Apparently it's something very common and I'm now so angry that none of the doctors I saw made a connection between the two things. You might also have some different kind of deficiency so maybe you should try to take a simple multi-vitamin and mineral supplement and see if there are any changes (take it for at least one month before expecting anything to happen). I hope in the meantime you have already solved your problem, since your post is almost a year old, or that this helps you or whoever is reading this post. My 'mission in life' now is to warn people who might have the same problem I suffered from, as I lived a few months of hell and have been left with scarring on my optic nerve.