Low Potassium

[Miss_T 14]

Last week my legs were really achey and all of a sudden they started tingling and going numb. I went and had lab work done and my potassium was low. They gave me 5 days of potassium pills. Has anyone else had this issue since being sleeved?

[Arts137 1,811]

Yes, not terribly uncommon with extreme weight loss!!

[Miss_T 14]

I guess other then bananas I don't know what I should be eating that will help my potassium levels.

[gomekast 559]

I'm drinking fresh veggie juice from greens. I use a breville juicer we have. Do lots of kale, spinach, cucumber, carrots, and a few piece of fruit to balance out the taste. It zips the pulp all out and leaves me with just fresh juice and no chunks or pulp.

One cup a day and I sip on it through out the day.

[Miss_T 14]

I have been wanting to try a juicer. I will definitely be looking into this! thanks

[RickM 1,747]

Potassium can be one of the tough ones for us with our minimalist diets during weight loss (and low carb diets make it doubly so,) and the matter that it isn't supplemented well without prescription due to toxicity concerns (so do follow your doc's instructions with any prescription supplements!) Bananas, cantaloupe, potatoes, orange or tangerine juice and avocados are good potassium sources, but getting a meaningful amount from these sources is still tough when we're restricting calories. The best source that I have found is the low sodium variety of V8 juice which has about 100mg per ounce - an 11.5 ounce can (soda can size) has about 1100mg for 70 calories - that's still only about 25% of the typically suggested RDA but it gets us up into a useful range such that we may be able to avoid prescription supplements.< /p>

[Miss_T 14]

My surgeon is 2 hours away so he had me go to the local ER to get the tests done and there for they would not give me any suggestions past writing me a 5 day script. Now I am expected to just sit around and wait until my next check up in December. I thought If I could control it by diet until then, I may be okay.

[gomekast 559]

My surgeon is 2 hours away so he had me go to the local ER to get the tests done and there for they would not give me any suggestions past writing me a 5 day script. Now I am expected to just sit around and wait until my next check up in December. I thought If I could control it by diet until then' date=' I may be okay.[/quote']

Go get a starter juicer to try out before you invest in something more spendy. It's what I did...the cheaper one lasted a month of heavy use. But the nutritional value of a cup of freshly juiced veggies is more than anything a store bought item can offer besides maybe naked brand juice.

If your on myfitnesspal, go search fresh juice and look for the combos that are mostly all veggie. Look at the stats of a cup of that..it will convince a lot of skeptics.

:-)

[gomekast 559]

Here is an example.