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I was active on this board about a year ago and then I got pregnant with baby #6 and between two military moves and a year long deployment for my husband I have been on very little. Tried to start reading again, but still have 6000 messages!Diagnosed with PA in 2007, BP was regulated with a low salt diet. Average below 120/80. Healthy pregnancy and delivery of a beautiful girl 10 lb. 12 oz - no gestational diabetes, just pure chunk.I am now three and a half months post partum. BP has been fairly normal. In the 135/85 range, but I was happy as I know in the postpartum period there is some leveling out. About a month ago I felt odd and my bp was up to 176/100 or something like that. I believe I took a bath with Epsom salts (I

have magnesium issues) and BP seemed normal. Has been normal since that time. About three days ago I felt like I was urinating all day long in tiny amounts. I also dropped 5 pounds in two days. I am eating a very low salt diet with virtually no processed foods. I take 20 MEQ of slow release K and drink 16 oz of OJ and 8 oz of low sodium V-8. In addition I eat lots of fruit and veggies and beans so I think my potassium is high enough.Tuesday morning my BP was 123/82 and a few hours later standing in the kitchen I felt weird and it was 180/103. I think I took my magnesium and it went down to maybe 150/92. BP has been up and down the last few days. I have been so thirsty and have a really dry mouth like I am dehydrated, but last night I couldn't seem to hold anything in for more than an hour before I would urinate. I couldn't sleep either. BP would be 180/103 and 15

min after water it would be 135/82 only to go back up after I urinated. It was like I couldn't hold on to water. Five years ago I had a situation like this when I was eight months post partum (breastfeeding both times, though now, my baby is strictly breastfed and my eight month old had started solids.Due to the weight loss I started drinking Gatorade and BP has been around 140/90 - not great, but not ridiculous. Any thoughts as to what is going on. In my pregnancy I had low sodium and felt less mentally strange with the addition of some salt into my diet. The sodium in the Gatorade has not seemed to be a problem and actually seems to help somewhat.My dr. appt got cancelled today and I go tomorrow. New dr. None of my PA paperwork is in my military file as we were away from a base when it all started. Just want to be on my toes

and take the dr. some good info. Just hoping she listens to me.Anybody ever have anything like this happen before?Around a year ago I was eating so low sodium that my BP went really low 102/68 and pulse went high and adding some salt seemed to help. Thanks for listening. - 42 yoWF, 6 kids, military wife whose husband is currently deployed for a year. diagnosed PA 2007. AVS found hormone producing tumor on left, couldn't sample right, told me to have adrenelectomy of left and I declined as they could not sample right side