ow high does potassium have to be before you feel tired, weak in the calves when walking sometimes ( as if you were exercising but you are not), and kind of nauseated after eating, and have a resting heart rate sometimes at 50 but not all the time? I have been having the symptoms after lowering my Fludrocortisone (synthetic aldosterone, mineralcorticoid). I know that lower aldosterone can cause hyperkalemia. I am feeling worse after eating food. I get kind of spacey and slow. I don’t know whether to attribute it to another medical condition, but I have definitely felt different after lowering the Fludro. I was on .05 mg Fludro daily, backed down to 2 day on and one day off for 11 days, and then backed down to .05 mg every other day for 10 days. Felt worse with these hyperkalemic symptoms shortly after I lowered to the every other day dose.

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