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Potassium

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
 
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 ‍♂️
 
Just a little bit of information if required, banana's are high in potassium.
 
Bananas are also high in sugar.
 
Carl williams66 said:
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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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
 
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.....
 
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