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We're going to talk about high levels of potassium in your blood.

First thing you need to know is the name of that is hypercalemia.

When you have a deficiency of potassium in the blood, that's called hypocalemia.

The other thing to know, which is very important, is that 98% of all your potassium in your body

is inside your cell, not outside the cell, and not in your blood.

So when we're evaluating hypercalemia, we're really looking at this 2%.

So we don't really see the whole picture of what's going on.

It's very rare.

There are very little symptoms that are associated with this.

If it's severe, you can get palpitations.

You can be very tired and have muscle pain and weakness.

There's a condition called pseudo-hypercalemia.

In this situation, when they're drawing your blood to get the sample to do the testing,

if they damage your blood cells as they're drawing it out, there's some type of trauma involved.

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