Question:
Can someone recommend a good potassium supplement?

I need to increase my potassim levels. Can someone recommend a good potassium supplement?    — Gene F. (posted on January 6, 2004)

January 5, 2004
I ALSO HAVE LOW POTASSIUM. iT CAN BE DANGEROUS. My PCP wrote me a prescription for pills. You should ask him or her. Paulette
   — Paulette G.

January 5, 2004
Definately speak to your doctor about the pottasium supplements. Pottasium is not something to be messed around with without medical advice. Just a little too much and it could send you into fatal cardiac arrythmias along with a slew of other problems. That is why you don't find pottasium supplements on the shelf with calcium and other vitamins and minerals. If you don't want to seek medical advice, bananas are a wonderful source of pottasium.
   — lindadougherty

January 5, 2004
Low Sodium V-8 is the best according to my cardiologist. If you read my profile you will see that I had problems with low-potassium, enough to make my heart react. 1 glass of Low Sodium V-8 every day fixed the problem.
   — M B.

January 6, 2004
Linda, medical advice is the best however I've found I need to be smarter than the doctors since my wls! I'm not saying that I am smarter it's only that none of my various doctors at the local home town clinic have dealt with the "special needs of gastric bypass patients". It seems almost every med I get is TIME RELEASE ***INCLUDING*** the potassium pills I got! I was taking them faithfully and still ended up in the ER again!!! Come to find out they were time release. I tried liquid and it was so foul that it was vomit material. Anywho none of the doctors could help me. Finally I got a "nurse practicioner" that had the decentcy to go the extra mile for me. God bless her. The others did'nt want to take the time. One doctor said,and he laughed "you wanted the gastric bypass and you got it!" By the way, he was my regular doctor and I dropped him faster than you drop a turd in a toliet. Anyway, the nurse practioner spent time looking through medical books and found some potassium that was NOT time release. It is K-COR tablets. Since taking them I've never needed another potassium transfusion. :) Of course the other foods mentioned are very good. Also I bought some salt substitute. I don't add salt to my foods, however the substitute is made out of potassium! So that's another option. It is expensive, but worth it to get some extra potassium.
   — Danmark

January 6, 2004
I have always been able to find potassium supplements along with other vitamins. (a previous poster replied that you couldn't find them with regular vitamins)<br><br> Gene, what did your doctor recomend? I can't imagine your doc telling you to increase your potassium and not telling you how to do that. I asked my doc about potassium since before surgery and dieting I would always feel icky if I didn't take potassium. But my doc told me right now she would want me to just get the potassium from foods, fish, banannas, orange juice, etc.. I even still drink CIB's since my doc wants 2 glasses of milk a day, and the cib gives me another 4 grams of protein and 300 mg of potassium.
   — Patricia T.

January 6, 2004
I have a continual problem with low potassium. For a while my doctor gave me a prescription but recommended an over the counter supplement after a while. I use Potassium Chloride made by KAL. I get it at the VitaminShoppe.com and it's usually betwen $3-4 per bottle of 100. Low potassium is dangerous. It's best to talk to talk to your doctor before starting any supplement. Sometimes they want to monitor you while you're on any supplement.
   — Cathy S.