Hi there everybody,
I hope everybody's well today. Sorry for the dramatic post title, but I would really appreciate some advice.
Basically, I'm in a lot of pain! I think my potassium levels have dropped a bomb. I have:
- cramping, in my feet, in my legs and my back has been in agony all day
- feel nauseus, bloating, constipation/diarrea (however it's spelt)
- weird kind of dizzy feeling in my head
- I've asked my boyfriend to give me a back massage the past few days and every time he touches my kidney region I scream.
It hurts so bad I just wanna cry and this isn't like me at all.
I've started taking a lot of supplements these past few weeks, including vitamin D3, magnesium + calcium, Biotin, folate 400mg, but basically the symptoms started about 3 days ago. I started taking Vitamin B12 maybe 5 days ago, in doses of 5000mcg (a couple of days I took this twice). The first day or two I felt fantastic but now Iºm getting really bad really quickly.
I have been really trying to ensure I take enough potassium in food each day. I've had smoothies with a glass of milk, 4 bananas, eaten 3 tomatoes, half an avocado, a potato, pumpkin... the juice of 2 oranges, each day. Today I literally ate 200mls of tomato puree, a sweet potato, juice of 1 lemon, 2 tomatoes and 3 hours ago I drank a smoothie of 7 bananas but I still feel bad. I'm worried about supplementing on potassium, overdosing and then dying, but now I'm worried about not getting enough.
I'm gonna head to the 24 hour pharmacy now, (its nearly midnight here), but I took all my supplements to the doctor and a pharmacy last week and they just said the doses were harmless, so I'm not expecting great advice.
If anybody has any experience/advice on this I would be extremely grateful.
Thanks in advance.
I hope everybody's well today. Sorry for the dramatic post title, but I would really appreciate some advice.
Basically, I'm in a lot of pain! I think my potassium levels have dropped a bomb. I have:
- cramping, in my feet, in my legs and my back has been in agony all day
- feel nauseus, bloating, constipation/diarrea (however it's spelt)
- weird kind of dizzy feeling in my head
- I've asked my boyfriend to give me a back massage the past few days and every time he touches my kidney region I scream.
It hurts so bad I just wanna cry and this isn't like me at all.
I've started taking a lot of supplements these past few weeks, including vitamin D3, magnesium + calcium, Biotin, folate 400mg, but basically the symptoms started about 3 days ago. I started taking Vitamin B12 maybe 5 days ago, in doses of 5000mcg (a couple of days I took this twice). The first day or two I felt fantastic but now Iºm getting really bad really quickly.
I have been really trying to ensure I take enough potassium in food each day. I've had smoothies with a glass of milk, 4 bananas, eaten 3 tomatoes, half an avocado, a potato, pumpkin... the juice of 2 oranges, each day. Today I literally ate 200mls of tomato puree, a sweet potato, juice of 1 lemon, 2 tomatoes and 3 hours ago I drank a smoothie of 7 bananas but I still feel bad. I'm worried about supplementing on potassium, overdosing and then dying, but now I'm worried about not getting enough.
I'm gonna head to the 24 hour pharmacy now, (its nearly midnight here), but I took all my supplements to the doctor and a pharmacy last week and they just said the doses were harmless, so I'm not expecting great advice.
If anybody has any experience/advice on this I would be extremely grateful.
Thanks in advance.