Experiences with

Diuretic

"Nettle leaf tea is a powerful diuretic and depurative. It can prevent the need for dialysis by enhancing blood purification, removing creatinine and uric acid, dissolving gallstones, improving urination and controlling infection and inflammation of the kidneys."

As many of you know the Bumetanide that I take is really life limiting for me, meaning that every third day or second day (I have cut back from every day) I have to be very near a personal toilet for 7-8 hours. I can't even make phone calls or have visitors in the first 5 hours due to the amount of times

My mum is 89 and has copd, heart failure and hyperthyroidism. In the last five months she has been to hospital four times. She's hardly slept in that time. Only on a few nights has she had more than two hours sleep. She recently had her carbimazole raised from 10 to 15 mg per day as her hormones were

I am already taking high blood pressure meds, including a small dose diuretic and a statin.

I was told I could use a low dose diuretic to help. But as we now they have to be taken first thing in the morning. And I was told only use them when absolutely necessary. My issue is morning time my legs are fine so I don’t know when I’m going to need them or not.

I cannot cope with furosemide and take indapamide which is a thiazide diuretic and is more gentle than a loop diuretic. I have just received a phone call from the office of my EP and he is happy at my drugs regime as my GP surgery refused to change my drugs without the say so of the EP.

Been on a diuretic all night and checked by cardiology at the hospital in arricefe and allowed back the hotel just now with clearance to fly home tonight. Has anyone had similar, is flutter typical, never had this prior to ablation.

For this, she takes Frumil (diuretic) tablet in empty stormach early in the morning. This swelling is continuing for a year. It is pertinent to mention here that that she doesnot suffer from any renal parenchymal (kidney) diseases and her serum creatinine is 0.8 mg/dl and urea 35 mg/dl.

I downed a couple of pints of water and had a banana, after taking my medication, wisely omitting the diuretic. My buddy arrived, and after a couple of last-minute wees, we set off.

My top tips are avoid 1, Caffeine as its diuretic 2, Break your fast with fruit and veg 3, Keep hydrated by drinking plenty of water 4 Try to keep out of the heat and seek shade preferably with a breeze 5 Consider taking electrolytes So what are your tips and how do you cope with extreme heat and

I really don't want to take a diuretic but do drink dandelion tea which seems to help.

I read that it has a diuretic affect which I am worried will tax the remaining kidney. Her doctor is in Florida and she is not. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21176271

I wonder if it is possible that my kidneys have somehow become "locked" in a diuretic mode, and are continuing to function this way despite having no diuretic medication? From what I could tell from google, spiro has a pretty short half-life, 24-48 hours.

The neph prescribed an ace Inhibitor and a diuretic. It seemed to do the trick and decreased the protein by a lot. He discharged me to my family doc with blood work every 6 months.

I had been researching like mad and asked the original doc in April to prescribe me a diuretic, spironolactone as my ascites was nearly unbearable. She didn't know anything about it, but was fine writing me a prescription. I tinkered with the dose. Gradually going up until I got some relief.

My primary care doctor prescribed a diuretic to reduce the fluid, but while it took much of the fluid out of my feet, there was little reduction in my hands and no relief from the pain.

Later he learned a natural therapy of herbal diuretic and anti-inflammatory pills and began to take the medicine. Now it's almost a month, and most of his pain does not exist, he wonders if he should continue to take the rest of the pills or should he stop taking it?

I'm not sure how long I'll have to take diuretic and anti-inflammatory pill to get a cure for my epididymitis, does anyone know about this? I've taken one course already and it seems my condition has improved a lot, no testicle pain anymore and just some lump are still there.

I am to have labs at renal specialis1 in 1 mo & then 6 mos. to see if kidney function improves w/ no longer taking diuretic & potassium. Has anyone had similar experience & had improved from stage 3 chronic kidney disease to stage 2 chronic kidney disease?

I had to take so many medicines for maintenance of High blood, stool softeners and diuretic pills plus supplements of iron, calcium, phosphorous, B, D and even Coumadin for Atrial Fib. Had triple bypass on 2012 too.