Learn About Lasix & Fluid Retention
Chosen Answer: Well, I know lots of people who take coumadin but also have a concurrent health problem that causes fluid retention, such as early congestive heart failure. It’s fairly common in the elderly to see both together. But fluid retention is not a side effect of coumadin, if that’s what you’re asking. by: DeannetheGreat [...]
Chosen Answer: Women have an increased risk of water retention, due to the rise and fall of hormone levels. For example, the reduction in progesterone, in the week before menstruation, can cause fluid retention. Some experts believe the problem is related to abnormal fluctuations in blood sugar. Others believe it is sodium-related. When your blood [...]
Chosen Answer: By not drinking ENOUGH water many people incur excess body fat, poor muscle tone and size, decreased digestive efficiency and organ function, increased toxicity in the body, joint and muscle soreness and water retention. Drink MORE water. If you’re not drinking enough, your body retains water to compensate. It is a survival technique [...]
Can you have fluid retention in your thighs but not in your lower legs (ankles etc…)? I read on a medical websites that fluid retention in the legs always includes some degree of fluid retention around the ankles, and that if ankle swelling is not present, the extra weight in the thighs is fat and [...]
My face never used to be fat and i used to be VERY skinny because i used to do so many sports, but i stopped and gained a bit of weight, my body not so much i am size 8/10 but my face is so fat, i hate it and can’t seem to get rid [...]
I have put on a few pounds in the last few weeks but he said that HRT can’t cause fluid retention. (He would know of course – being a man!) Chosen Answer: YES!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you taking synthetic estrogen? Yikes!!! HRT info from the doctor who pioneered Estrogen Dominance research: http://www.johnleemd.com/store/hrt_research.html Either educate your doctor or [...]
I have recently started taking the contraceptive pill again and it has caused me a lot of fluid retention around my hips and stomach which feels really uncomfortable. Does anyone know if this side effect will pass or if it will stay for as long as I take the pill? Chosen Answer: I know that [...]
Chosen Answer: water retention or edema…is a condition where your body holds onto the water reserves in your body, for various reasons. You may be dehydrated, have liver or kidney functioning problems (your waste system may have something wrong with it), it comes from many things. Women tend to retain more water than men, because [...]
how does hypokalemia cause fluid retention……..?????????? Chosen Answer: Well, it’s a little more complicated than it looks. Fluid retention can occur for a broad number of reasons–renal insufficiency is one, as is congestive heart failure, but there’s a numbe of endocrine/metabolic things, like SIADH, that can drive it. Serum potassium can be driven down by: [...]
Chosen Answer: Eating to much salt and not drinking enough water, and as a woman you know that the time of the month can cause it too…also congestive heart failure…high blood pressure…they say that when you’re feeling thirsty that your body is already dehydrated..so drink water regularly…even if you don’t feel thirsty. by: dreamofcountryfreedom on: [...]