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Originally Posted by ashadanzatrice
thanks for the expert advice to a lot of us here, shaunte, and for clarifying what i didn't say very clearly at all about potassium. you're right, of course! i meant adding more potassium-containing foods to the diet, which is my cardio's advice. he said the same as you about taking supplements only if needed because of the effect of a diuretic.
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Oh no problem, I knew what you meant. I just wanted to make sure everyone else understood that this wasn't something to necessarily worry about. I'm not sure which one you are on, but hopefully your MD is monitoring your blood potassium levels because this is often something that is overlooked. I work on-call in the ER and I can't tell you how many times I've had patients who are on potassium supplements and have come in with dangerously high as well as low levels because either their MD had not followed up serum blood levels or the patient had not been taking it as ordered.