RE: the dreaded SPS/kayexalate

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

What an awful experience for you. My potassium has gone as high at 7.0 at

one point, but I have always managed to avoid taking the stuff.

I would have had to when it got to 7.0, but I was out of town and by the time

I flew home and went for a recheck, it was down to 6.2, and so I escaped.

Are you feeling much better now?

Take care of yourself.

[Guest guest]

With number 5 being the most important I assume :-)

In a message dated 4/12/2004 1:57:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

wcrosby@... writes:

> 5. Never, ever let them put you in an MRI machine within a half-

> hour of taking Kayexalate.

[Guest guest]

:

A couple of recommendations when taking Kayexalate:

1. Try to take it with Fruit Juice. I prefer Trader Joes Cherry

Cider or Apple & Eve Cranberry/Raspberry. Anything is better than

straight up.

2. Keep the spoon in the glass, and keep stirring, right up until

it goes in your mouth. Swig it all down and drink a glass of water

right after.

3. If given it in the hospital, try to have them avoid using the

sugar, but even if they do, still ask for Cranberry Juice -- it

definitely goes down easier that way.

4. Stay near that bathroom.

5. Never, ever let them put you in an MRI machine within a half-

hour of taking Kayexalate.

Walt

[Guest guest]

:

A couple of recommendations when taking Kayexalate:

1. Try to take it with Fruit Juice. I prefer Trader Joes Cherry

Cider or Apple & Eve Cranberry/Raspberry. Anything is better than

straight up.

2. Keep the spoon in the glass, and keep stirring, right up until

it goes in your mouth. Swig it all down and drink a glass of water

right after.

3. If given it in the hospital, try to have them avoid using the

sugar, but even if they do, still ask for Cranberry Juice -- it

definitely goes down easier that way.

4. Stay near that bathroom.

5. Never, ever let them put you in an MRI machine within a half-

hour of taking Kayexalate.

Walt