Potassium

Morning all ,just wondering should we take potassium supplements when been on steroid inhalers a number of years

[O2Trees]

Not sure about that Alice. You could ask your GP for a blood test to see if you have a potassium deficiency (hypokalemia) - a quick google shows that steroids can cause this but I tend to think I get enough potassium from diet - bananas, sweet potatoes, spinach, chard, broccoli, white beans etc.

I would be more concerned that steroids can often cause osteoporosis - I have this in my hip though not spine. So I take magnesium, vitamin D and vitamin K to protect my bones (plenty of calcium in my diet).

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o2Trees, have this in my spine. 4 vertebral fractures. It's awful.

[O2Trees in reply to Hidden]

Poor you Poems, horrible, Im so sorry.

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Thank you for that o2tree ,iv been feeling kind of achey and water infection dr gave me d3 plus calcium named adcal ,I think I'll start eating bananas ect