Cybil: you have PA and should start DASHIng today and begin spiro as soon as you can.

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Actual results are better here and the normals for you lab.CE Grim MDOn Jun 7, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Bingham wrote: Those things are pretty classic for PA as we can all vouch for. There's of course some variance given we're all individuals, but the things you describe are some of the most common to all of us. There are some good studies and research on aldosterone and anxiety, but from my personal experience and many others on here, if there is no co-exisiting condition, then the issue causing the bulk of it is the low potassium that kick starts these symptoms, and if a low K likely a low magnesium too. Docs and others discount the potassium but it is an electrolyte invilved in every single aspect of your body. They will brush aside a "borderline" potassium and often it may be very low and not borderline because they do not test it right alot of the time (look back in our files and there is one telling you how to get it done right). But many of us on here can surely tell you a borderline is not so borderline and we feel the symptoms - anxiety was a big one for me and it got better when my potassium was fixed, and then got even better after I started taking magnesium. And the chance of a pheo is almost zero (literally). They tend to fixate on a pheo, I am not sure why they fixate to such a degree, but it does have to be ruled out, but I would bet you do not have a pheo as they ARE that rare From: Cybil <cybil.baker@...>Subject: I'm confused....hyperaldosteronism Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 5:06 PM If anyone can help clarify something for me that would be fantastic. I'm in the process of my 4th 24 hour urine. During the last two months I have had high serum aldosterone and high urine aldosterone. Low K+,Mg, CA. The most bothersome symptom right now for me (besides the uncontrolled BP) are attacks similiar to those for pheocrytocomia. During some of my testing my catacholemines were elevated, but my nephro said not elevated enough to worry about. Can hyperaldo cause these same sort of symptom s: pallor,headache, anxiety, sky high BP? These attacks are debilitating and scary. My nephro told me if this last testing is positive for aldo she will change my meds...possibly try aldactone. Anyone here have symptoms similar? I do not want to be prescribed a benzo for anxiety attacks. Also, CT was negative but echo showed significant LVH.Cybil -36 y.o. female with no real diagnosis of anything but HTN at this time.Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone