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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lindisfel" data-source="post: 2296414" data-attributes="member: 57698">If you have high bp and low potassium you could possibly have Primary Aldosteronism. In PA,  patients cannot keep their potassium high enough because it leaks away in their urine!Your renin/aldosterone ratio requires checking.Alternatively an easy check if you have high bp and low potassium is for a health care professional to try you on a potassium sparing diuretic like Spironolactone to see of the situation improves.GPs in UK often fail to recognise Conn's syndrome, it was 25 years before the reason for my high bp was recognised.Ace inhibitors and ARB's dont work in PA because the aldosterone is too high and renin is too low, so one does not normally produce angiotensin to need blocking.We have very sophisticated feedback systems in the human body to create homeostasis, it takes serious changes in food input to disable it in an healthy person.D.</blockquote>

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