Potassium chloride for Hypokalemia User Reviews

• san...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 20, 2019

"I started taking this 20 mEq medicine this week. Today, when I tried to take it, I almost choked if it was not for the help of a friend who hit my back and took me from behind to help me. Is it not possible to make it smaller? Or that it has a coating that helps swallow it whole? The people who designed it tried to take it as it seems impossible to be swallowed by a human being. For the record, I'm an adult and I have no trouble swallowing. Please, reformulate this pill."

• Fre...
• August 26, 2015

"This potassium pill does not dissolve...the white coating does, then the rest is left in the stool. Yes, I have salvaged them from the stool, and they still have the USL 10 number on them (although the white coating is gone, the yellowish pill is quite all there!). WHY? Has no one else complained? Freddie."

• Son...
• August 6, 2009

Potassium chloride "I use this to prevent muscle cramps so severe that I have thought I would tear muscles loose. I take 2 tablets each day along with 3 x 600 mg calcium citrate with Vitamin D caplets. Sometimes I have to take an additional Klor-Con 20 if I am passing a lot of urine. I take Lasix 40 mg a day, I was taking 80 mg, and I would get cramps within 6 hours of taking it. I had been using quinine previously, but it was taken off the market."

• Jod...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• January 9, 2020

Potassium chloride "I had a really bad reaction with swollen and blisters on hands and feet. Skin peeled off very painfully and went on for over a month. I couldn't breathe or swallow. My boys were scared because I couldn't walk or talk, feeling like I was going to pass out, very dizzy and lightheaded and confused. Other things also, and some reactions are still going on with pain too."

• M P...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• April 21, 2022

"I am on 5 pills of 10 MEQ pills per day. They are manufactured by Mylan Pharmaceuticals (now part of Viatris). On several occasions, I have caught a pill passing right through me—obviously of no benefit to me. It makes me wonder how many of these pills pass through regularly, undetected. The manufacturer ought to make these pills more digestible."

• Joj...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 15, 2020

"Potassium chloride made me break out in a rash and itching so bad that I kept accidentally scratching scabs open from itching for 2 weeks. Then I looked up side effects, I had every single allergy on it, ughhhh... not for me. I'm eating baked potatoes and bananas helped better."

• ban...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 25, 2013

"I hated fruit until I suffered from hypokalemia! Now, well, I am the banana man! I didn't know what to do with my inadequate potassium in my blood. With the infusion, I am much better and an apple a day away from further medical treatment."

• Ste...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• June 19, 2018

"My cardiologist increased the dosage to two pills a day... and somehow it changed to wax tabs with the same dosage about a few months ago. I developed peeling of skin on my left hand ring finger and could not figure out what it was. Now, it started to spread to the middle finger."

• Kok...
• November 5, 2024

Potassium chloride "Taking Klor-Con for well over a year now for hypokalemia. If you have problems with 20 mEq, the 10 mEq is much smaller, as I prefer, you would just have to alter your dosage. This Rx works great for me. I just spread it out throughout the day with food and water to prevent stomach upset, as I’m on 100 mEq/day. I used to be on 200 mEq/day due to my extreme lows. Definitely helps with retention/edema, headaches, constipation, fatigue, and hypertension."

• Spo...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• March 29, 2022

Potassium chloride "I prefer the fizzy tablets to these extremely large and difficult-to-swallow pills. I have chronic hypokalemia and take Klor-Con 20 twice a day. It seems to work okay as once in a while I get a normal potassium level. Usually I'm still hypokalemic, though. It's not as low as before, and I've managed to stay out of the hospital since starting this. I have no side effects. The pills are so difficult to swallow!"

• Jul...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 19, 2020

"Had 5 bags of IV potassium and felt fantastic. Before this was given to me, I was so tired, had lost my appetite, had stomach pains, cramps in my feet, and was depressed. Now I feel like a new person."

• Anonymous
• October 18, 2009

Potassium chloride "Works fast and well. It will put you back to normal within 1-2 hours!"

• gpl...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 22, 2017

Potassium chloride "M10 in tablet form is grainy and very hard to swallow. I switched to the liquid, which is more expensive, because I feared choking."

• Non...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 8, 2021

Potassium chloride "Worst medicine. Had terrible abdominal pain and diarrhea. Pain level was an 11! Dizzy, confused, how can they make people go through this?"

• Pic...
• July 12, 2018

"Tablets do not dissolve!"

• Mel...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 21, 2017

"Severe diarrhea and nausea."

• Jen...
• July 26, 2019

"I just started taking this pill yesterday because I am on the fluid pill, and so far it’s ok, starting to make me feel better."

• Jam...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• July 20, 2023

"Peeling skin on elbows. Some labored breathing. At times faint and lightheaded. If you're reading my review check out Jody's, very similar!"