Just happened to me last week! Doctors are waiting for toxicology results! Cost me 7 days in the hospital! they think it was a bacterial infection!

Stay in touch and tell me what they found out about you!
I'll do the same! Be careful, my illness spun out of control and I ended up in a coma but I have other problems besides diabetes!
Send me a message if you want to discuss this in more detail!
MarcusO

Renal failure is the most typical reason for elevated potassium levels.

Hi,

Those sound like VERY scary and dangerous experiences and I hope you are both feeling better, Bluejeanz and Markus.

I'm sure you know this but I didn't...that "Lite Salt" you can buy is a mixture of salt and potassium chloride so you seriously do NOT want that. I don't know why they even sell it!

I had the opposite problem, I had too little potassium and it's apparently not that easy to get naturally or even via supplements because they kept me in the hospital until they got it back up.

Did either of your docs suggest how many mg. of potassium you should eat per day? If you google "low potassium diet" there is a lot of info out there, but I wouldn't start until I knew what was going on/how much K i should be getting.

Keep us posted, obviously this is very important!

-FM

Im glad you mentioned the low salt as it is riddle with potassium....!!!

So much for that being a healthy option.
Ive also looked up food high in potassium,bananas and potaoes top the list...
ever good old broccli has it in so you have to boil it to death to leach out the potassium.

Im now having weekly blood tests,to check this and my doctor sain that once the acidosis has cleared that potassium regulates itself as a rule.

Its the most weirdest sensation when the potassium is high,as I felt my mind had been taken over by aliens,and began to have hallucinatons.
It also gave me paralysis of the muscles plus odema which is water retention.

You mentioned acidosis. Well, all you need to do is get on the web site GreatTasteNoPain.org and learn how to control the ph levels in your gut and it will indeed solve the problems of not digesting the amount of needed potassium. Hope this will help you, Hugs, Mary AnneF

Kidneys are the top BUT ther are many other things that can cause this! I have it from meds sometimes that i take or a supplement I like.
Try not to think the worst here....
Glad your ok Markus!! That was scarey...

I need the potassium and I am taking 2 pills each morning which when I run out, I will get a RX, the blood tests said mine was nearly 50%of the normal amount and my fear of potassium is I had pain in my chest and I thought I wouldn't make it, but I survived the night and now I have seen the light and so I am very careful for no more chest pains for this. I realized why the nurse at my hospital asked if I was taking the potassium since they wanted to see if this was why my potassium was like it was, not high, but this was why she asked, I am positive. Please keep us updated when you can, I know I care about how your kidneys are doing, I know this is very important to me. I do drink plenty of water and watered down juices for sure.

Hi Blue Jeans, I am sorry for not responding to you, but maybe there is something which might help in the message I posted to Markus