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Taking Potassium
34 Patients currently take Potassium
1 Patient stopped taking Potassium
knightshotter Sensation: Moderate Overall: Moderate Cognition: moderate Vision: moderate Speech: moderate Swallowing: moderate Upper limb: moderate Walking: moderate See profile knightshotter 300mg daily since Sep 10, 2008
jadedangeleyes Sensation: Severe Overall: Severe Cognition: severe Vision: moderate Speech: severe Swallowing: moderate Upper limb: severe Walking: severe See profile jadedangeleyes 595mg daily since Jun 03, 2008
PowderCat Sensation: Moderate Overall: Mild Cognition: moderate Vision: none Speech: moderate Swallowing: none Upper limb: none Walking: none See profile PowderCat 90mg daily since Oct 25, 2007

What is Potassium? Multivitamin-mineral supplements in the U.S. do not contain more than 99 mg of potassium per serving. Higher doses of supplemental potassium are generally prescribed to prevent and treat potassium depletion and hypokalemia.

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Reasons Taken

35 patients in the community are taking or have taken Potassium.

Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Other	11	31%
General health	10	28%
Stiffness/spasticity	4	11%
Cramps, calf muscles	4	11%
Support another treatment	3	8%
Bladder problems	1	2%
Tremors	1	2%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Potassium.

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0 mg day	10 mEq/L day	10 mg day	20 mEq/L day	20 mg day	40 mg day	60 mEq/L day	90 mg day	99 mg day	198 mg day	200 mg day	300 mg day	550 mg day	595 mg day	600 mg day	750 mg day
9	1	2	1	3	1	1	2	4	1	1	2	2	2	1	1

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Potassium or how long patients were taking Potassium before stopping.

Currently taking Potassium

0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
0	2	6	5	3	7

Stopped taking Potassium

0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
0	0	1	0	0	0

Why Patients Stopped Taking Potassium (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Other	1	50%
Course of treatment ended	1	50%
Not indicated	1	50%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 2 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major	100%	1

Stiffness/spasticity

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe	0%	0
Moderate	0%	0
Mild	0%	0
None	100%	2

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 2 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 2)

jmscout

Sensation: None

Overall: Mild

Cognition: moderate

Vision: none

Speech: none

Swallowing: none

Upper limb: moderate

Walking: moderate

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by jmscout
Sep 17, 2008