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Hi guys, I’m not sure if it’s related to the diabetes, but has anyone else had a bit more potassium in their bloods than normal??
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Jordi77
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I've had less or no potassium in my blood or system as the treatment for that is potassium tablets and sodium tablets as I got them when I was in hospital last year and I was given dissolving tablets of them but I now use the normal form which I get from a store and they are not that expensive either as I don't like the taste of the other type of tablets
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No potassium?? Anything under 2.5 is life threatening??!!
Potassium levels should be between 3.4 to 5.2 I think....
Potassium levels should be between 3.4 to 5.2 I think....
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Plus with low potassium it causes cramps, irregular heart beats etc... I’m not talking a major difference mine was only 5.3 but it was enough for the gp to do another BT 
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See the big speed bump in the hba1c graph in my signature, you guessed it bananas caused that.
Can be diabetes related. When I was admitted to A&E with my undiagnosed T1 I had v high potassium and ended up on lots of monitors because they were worried I'd damaged my heart.
Apparently insulin also takes potassium out of the blood stream so as I hadn't been producing much up it went
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Hey! I’ve recently been put on a low potassium diet because mine was too high! I’m CKD stage 3 and a type one so a by product of both these things. Please message me for advice!
Ur potassium levels are effected on how much insulin u have... whenever I’m put on a slide scale they always put me on a bag of potassium.....
