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Please provide a tip on how to ask your doctor about low potassium.
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Ignore: Ask what medications you are taking that can cause it. Most commonly, it will be diuretics.
Answered 8/5/2014
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Ignore: If you are having leg cramps or weakness, check potassium ( see md).
Answered 9/29/2016
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