First time on water pill

Rusty...I can’t say the diuretics helped me but they did give me gout a few times... talk about pain like I have never witnessed. Worst pain of my life.

I read if you want to flush your system and the hen drink lots of water...in the long run the water pill/diuretic makes you retain water/fluids.

 

I didn't like the side effects of the diuretic I was on (spironolactone; the normally prescribed HCTZ side effects were worse), but it definitely reduced vertigo episodes for me. I tried reducing from 50mg to 25mg and set off a bad phase of symptom flare-up. So for years I stayed at 50. I'm also quite sodium-sensitive, and I believe the diuretic helped to lessen meniere's symptoms. But I was really glad to say goodbye to it after having my laby last August.

 

I also had some minor kidney pain when I first started taking diuretics but it went away after about a week or so.

 

I've only been on the diuretic for 5 months or so. I think it is helped, but I think the supplement approach (JOH, plus anti-migraine COQ10 and magnesium, plus B5/B6) helped more.

I still have all symptoms, but definitely less, and I often have zero pressure in the years which is great. Still comes on some based on dietary issues, weather, or allergies.

I am leery of the long term effects of the diuretic, but I'm afraid to stop taking it right now.

 

I finally gave in and tried Diamox, if only to be able to tell the doctor I’ve tried all the medical options and it’s time to give me gent, laby or palliative care.

I am tolerating the Diamox better than I thought, and it probably helps during restaurant food. I don’t like the dry mouth, and worry I’ll have dental issues if I’m on it too long.

 

I have tried the diuretic a few times over the years. My experience with it each time was that it seemed to help for a short time and then stopped working.

 

I was on a diuretic (Dyazide) and a low sodium diet for several years, and my symptoms completely resolved. I only had fullness and hearing loss (cochlear hydrops), so I was lucky. I discontinued the Dyazide but kept the low-sodium diet.

I was able to tolerate the Dyazide, though I did find that I had disabling back cramps (which I originally though was kidney pain, having experienced a serious kidney infection in my early 20s) whenever I sweated a lot due to activity. It's a weird sort of pain, starting off with a general feeling of "not great", then settling into the lower back. But it definitely is not typical back pain — I have sciatica, and that's nerve pain and is totally different. The cause of the back cramps was low potassium, so I learned how to dose myself with potassium chloride when they happened.

I was largely symptom-free for a decade, though if I was eating at restaurants a lot (i.e., not sticking to the low-sodium diet because of travel) or before my menstrual cycle began, I would sometimes have fullness.

In the past few months, the fullness is back full-time and I have hearing loss again. Unfortunately, my otologist has since retired, so I'm trying to find a new one. And I'm hoping that the diuretic will work again for me.

 

I was oh HCTZ for just 1 week and passed out because my blood pressure went too low. Me and medications don't mix. Have Acyclovir sitting on my desk right now and I'm being such a baby about not wanting to take it.

 

I had problems with HCTZ then was prescribed Spironolactone and told to eat a banana daily to help with potassium. For 15+ years had no problems other than the typical diuretic dry mouth.

 

I thought spinronolactone was A potassium sparring direutic?