Low Potassium Symptoms After 3 Months

(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #41

Also @Stal
No matter what you hear from anyone in here, do not supplement potassium.

Again, do not supplement potassium. Eat potassium rich foods such as greens at meat and see your doctor if you’re worried about your potassium levels. As people were saying further up on the thread, if you keep your sodium level correct your potassium level will stay correct as well. It’s very dangerous to supplement potassium yourself. I cannot stress this enough. Too much potassium can cause heart arrhythmia issues and make you very sick. Just don’t go there

#42

FYI, salmon is a great source for potassium. I’ve started eating it four times a week, sometimes more. I tend to try to get as much of my electrolytes from food as possible, and supplement the rest.

I do think it is important to have enough of ALL the electrolytes daily. Water is very important too. Now that I’ve been tracking it more carefully for a few weeks it isn’t so difficult.

Potassium and magnesium help muscles and the heart is an important muscle.

I love this way of eating, but this thing with electrolytes is really key to success! I almost quit keto when my heart was doing crazy things, but I’m glad I kept with it. I’m more confident and at peace with it all now.

Hope you find answers, health and peace!

#43

Thank you for all the replies. It did turn out to be the salt/sodium. I had a bit more salt last night, and eventually my head cleared up and I was able to sleep. I woke up an hour and a half before my alarm was set to go off fully rested and I feel about 90% back to normal. I even thought about canceling the hydration IV because I felt so much better.

bb28

#44

LMAO. Do you carefully weigh out your guac lest you eat too much and go into avocado induced cardiac arrest? What about banana chugging vegans that easily get over 13,000mg of potassium a day? Oh sure, they’re wrecking their health in other ways, but they’re not dropping like flies from hyperkalemia. Unless you have kidney failure, drinking a little extra ketoaide throughout the day is not going to put people into instant cardiac arrest. That’s pure CYA fearmongering.

If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go play some lawn darts, then read Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

(Edith) #45

Sporky, you are sounding a little snarky. There is a big difference between the potassium from food and the potassium from non food sources. It is much easier to OD from non food sources.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #46

I learned the hard way with the too much salt at once thing. Space it out like Brenda is suggesting. As for magnesium and potassium, I get them from food. Lab showed my potassium level was completely normal after six months on keto. The IV thing sounds like a bad idea for two reasons. How would you know how much you needed/were getting, and how often would you have to do it? I really hope you cancel.

(Carl Keller) #47

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Yup, that’ll do it. :slight_smile:

(Empress of the Unexpected) #48

@CarlKeller. (Regina is standing with her hands on her hips, glaring…). :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: Did that again this morning but blamed hubby.

Before I looked to see who the culprit was I was guessing it was @juice. I’m cracking up here.

(Carl Keller) #49

When dining near the closest high school here it pays to check the salt shaker top before using it. The kids have off campus lunch and are notorious for setting up unsuspecting diners. They got me once!

(Empress of the Unexpected) #50

Then, I thought of @Digital_Dave, even @TDean, but they seemed much too kind-hearted to do such a dastardly deed…

Thank you, thank you - first time I’ve laughed (out loud) all day.

(Terence Dean) #51

The only real way to tell if your potassium levels are too low is to do a blood test. Often we guess at what’s actually wrong with us just going by some symptom we’re experiencing at the time. No need to panic see a professional. Yer welcome!

(Running from stupidity) #52

Deeply, DEEPLY hurt by this unwarranted character assassination.

DEEPLY.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #53

That’s what you get for being famous!!

(Jane) #54

:rofl:

#55

“The only real way to tell if your potassium levels are too low is to do a blood test. Often we guess at what’s actually wrong with us just going by some symptom we’re experiencing at the time. No need to panic see a professional. Yer welcome!”

Where would one get that tested? Doctor’s office? nutritionist? Naturopath?

Thanks,

bb28

(Empress of the Unexpected) #56

Doctor’s office or there are some companies that offer private testing.

#57

Potassium is potassium. As long as people are using half a brain, they won’t kill themselves with some extra ketoaide, or putting some salt substitute on their meal, just like they won’t kill themselves with too many avocados.

(Running from stupidity) #58

That’s a pretty solid caveat.

(Brennan) #59

That’s faulty logic. In the same vein as a calorie is a calorie and a carb is a carb.

Not killing yourself is a pretty low bar to set, I can shoot myself in the foot everyday and I won’t kill myself. Doesn’t mean I should. Supplementing typically involves taking a concentrated dose and there is a possibility that (n=1) some people may have a much lower tolerance to these things.

(Terence Dean) #60

I get mine done at my LCHF doctor’s practice, they take the blood samples there and send them off to the labs, you get the results in a week over here but in the USA its a lot quicker I understand.