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@red350 '...I’ve also upped my potassium ...'
Please go slow on this. When I used the word 'imbalance', that could be what makes the teeter totter rise on one end and fall on the other, or the other way around. IOW, you could, ostensibly, be supplementing too much already. As an explanation, there is hypokalemia, but also hyperkalemia. All in one patient, but a week apart. Additionally, the kidneys have to work hard to excrete excesses of whatever they can filter out that the body doesn't need or want. Potassium can be especially hard on kidneys that are functioning marginally, or that have high creatinine levels.....so please tread carefully with supplementation. Always check with your doctor about increasing/decreasing anything you take by mouth for a purpose other than nutrition.
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@gloaming Yes, wise words. I just upped it a bit with bananas. Not much else. Kidney function and creatinine levels have all been good (I have labs every 2 weeks and was hopeful I could string that out to every month but now will wait). I have a detailed message to my cardiologist/electrophysiologist to look over everything and advise. I am also wondering what came first - the chicken or the egg? I thought Afib just came out of the blue but I've not felt well and have finally been off all medications for 3 weeks to treat the PCIS/Pericarditis and wonder if pericarditis was actually reigniting the inflammation after colchicine was tapered off and caused an episode of Afib because I felt a lot worse Sunday and today (similar to the beginning of this nightmare 14 months ago). I started taking colchicine as that was the last medication I tapered off 3 weeks ago when I felt GREAT! Now not so good. Hoping I hear from a doctor today. I really don't want to go on injectables like Rilonacept to treat this but I do want to put it behind me. Thanks again for your responses.