Insomnia
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Hi people,
I do not want to share horror stories but I'll give you my take on potassium and the caution behind it.
I've been following a protocol for almost 2 years now and another thing I felt that was missing was (enough) potassium in the diet. So having said that, last friday I got my potassium (cream of tartar) powder and started dosing it at a maximum of 2-4g (1 small teaspoon / 1 teaspoon). One of the best things I got out of it, was that my shoulders got extremely relaxed and the shoulder pain (snapping scapula, because of sports injury) that I have been experiencing for years got substantially less. It was quite comfortable. I got no more aches in my muscles and I had so much more energy.
Yesterday I got a total of 5g over the day, 2.5g in the morning and 2.5g in the evening (1 big teaspoon) and everything was okay. This would equal 1g of potassium because of the molecular structure of cream of tartar (which is bitartrate), approx 20% of it is potassium.
Today however, I dosed around 2g with a scale (after eating buckwheat with milk, approx 400ml of milk, so count that contains potassium aswell). I took my multi, 5mg of k2 and 2mg of copper 5-10 minutes prior to that. Approximately half an hour later I got hit with extreme fatigue and it felt my pulse was getting very low, my hands were getting extremely cold and it felt I was gonna faint. I usually am very cautious with supplements and it didn't feel like I was messing around. My heart was pounding hard and I just layed on my bed. My parents got mad at me while I was going delirium. So I called my doctor and they wanted me to come over immediately and measured my pulse. Luckily that was okay when it was being checked. However, my hands were extremely cold, as if I was staying outside in the winter, no joke really.
I mean, I've read about someone taking 6 big spoons and that didn't end well from what I read. So in my opinion I was actually very cautious with my dosages since it was nowhere near that, just a small teaspoon which was measured with a scale at 2g. The days before I dosed 3g and a bit over that, but on those days I didn't experience anything weird except for the relaxed feeling. It just shows how powerful supplements can be, since I haven't experienced anything like this for the past 2 years (following my protocol) where I've taken different things without a big serious problem.
I'll be very cautious and I hope people will be too. I hope no one gets mad at me, but I felt like I needed to share this.
Here is the problem, while I want to throw away the cream of tartar, it has benefitted my muscles so much that I simply not know what just happened today. My body going into a state of hyperkalemia, showing that I have enough potassium or was it an "acute dose" that gave me these symptoms? It helped me tremendously with muscle aches and the shoulder, that's one big benefit. I just do not know whether it outweighs the potential and dangerous side effects of it. If I ever do decide to dose it again, I'd not take more then 1g-1.5g daily in total (=200mg - 300mg of potassium) because until now it was around 3-5g a day so far, which equals 600-1g of potassium). the highest amount of potassium I hit in a day was around 4000mg with food included (1g was coming of the potassium bitartrate).
I do not want to share horror stories but I'll give you my take on potassium and the caution behind it.
I've been following a protocol for almost 2 years now and another thing I felt that was missing was (enough) potassium in the diet. So having said that, last friday I got my potassium (cream of tartar) powder and started dosing it at a maximum of 2-4g (1 small teaspoon / 1 teaspoon). One of the best things I got out of it, was that my shoulders got extremely relaxed and the shoulder pain (snapping scapula, because of sports injury) that I have been experiencing for years got substantially less. It was quite comfortable. I got no more aches in my muscles and I had so much more energy.
Yesterday I got a total of 5g over the day, 2.5g in the morning and 2.5g in the evening (1 big teaspoon) and everything was okay. This would equal 1g of potassium because of the molecular structure of cream of tartar (which is bitartrate), approx 20% of it is potassium.
Today however, I dosed around 2g with a scale (after eating buckwheat with milk, approx 400ml of milk, so count that contains potassium aswell). I took my multi, 5mg of k2 and 2mg of copper 5-10 minutes prior to that. Approximately half an hour later I got hit with extreme fatigue and it felt my pulse was getting very low, my hands were getting extremely cold and it felt I was gonna faint. I usually am very cautious with supplements and it didn't feel like I was messing around. My heart was pounding hard and I just layed on my bed. My parents got mad at me while I was going delirium. So I called my doctor and they wanted me to come over immediately and measured my pulse. Luckily that was okay when it was being checked. However, my hands were extremely cold, as if I was staying outside in the winter, no joke really.
I mean, I've read about someone taking 6 big spoons and that didn't end well from what I read. So in my opinion I was actually very cautious with my dosages since it was nowhere near that, just a small teaspoon which was measured with a scale at 2g. The days before I dosed 3g and a bit over that, but on those days I didn't experience anything weird except for the relaxed feeling. It just shows how powerful supplements can be, since I haven't experienced anything like this for the past 2 years (following my protocol) where I've taken different things without a big serious problem.
I'll be very cautious and I hope people will be too. I hope no one gets mad at me, but I felt like I needed to share this.
Here is the problem, while I want to throw away the cream of tartar, it has benefitted my muscles so much that I simply not know what just happened today. My body going into a state of hyperkalemia, showing that I have enough potassium or was it an "acute dose" that gave me these symptoms? It helped me tremendously with muscle aches and the shoulder, that's one big benefit. I just do not know whether it outweighs the potential and dangerous side effects of it. If I ever do decide to dose it again, I'd not take more then 1g-1.5g daily in total (=200mg - 300mg of potassium) because until now it was around 3-5g a day so far, which equals 600-1g of potassium). the highest amount of potassium I hit in a day was around 4000mg with food included (1g was coming of the potassium bitartrate).