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Hi everyone and Dr. Grim.

I am pretty new here. I've been looking around a bit and finally decided to

post a message. After the birth of my daughter almost 6 years ago, my blood

pressure went up. My doc started me on water pills which seemed to help with my

bp but we later realized that I was losing potassium. After a few years or so

my doc switched me to a potassium sparing pill but still my potassium was low.

I finally was switched to lisinopril (ace inhibitor) but still my potassium was

low even though this med should make my potassium higher. Finally I went to

see an endocrinologist and one of the first questions he asked after hearing my

symptoms (I was also there for my thyroid problems) was had any doctor ever had

my adrenals checked. No.

So I left his office with a prescription to have an aldo/renin blood test, a

aldo 24 hour urine and a 24 hour for creatinine.

My aldo was high in both urine and blood (sorry but I don't have the values in

front of me.) but my renin was normal.

Went back to my new endo doc and he was confused by the renin being normal. I

told him that I had still been taking all my meds when I had the testing done.

I am on an ace inhibitor for my high bp. Doc said the renin ratio should be at

the highest 1.2 and mine was 1.86 too high to be diagnosed with

hyperaldosteronism.

So, I have to have the blood work for aldo/renin done again in 2 weeks. I am

currently on another bp med called verapamil.

So, thats my story so far.

Any insight from anyone would be appreciated.