So, now I have to take diuretics. What a pisser!

[ohiosmith]

[geardaddy]

1. Groan.

I've taken them for 20 years. The newer ones aren't so bad.

[ohiosmith]

2. In the bag with the RX was a discount coupon for Depends.

[REP]

3. I take 240 mg Lasix a day

And my eyelids still look like I get punched fairly regularly (it's just bruising from the edema). Just the other day someone complimented me on my eyeshadow color. I don't wear makeup!

[ohiosmith]

5. Yikes! Neither do I. Wear makeup that is. Well, except that one time but let's not go there.

[geardaddy]

7. I used to take about 20mg of Furosemide.

There were several times where I thought I was going to have an accident. Now I'm on the combo lisinopril-hydrochlorothiazide. That's sooo much better.

[ohiosmith]

8. That's exactly what I'm taking for HBP.

[3waygeek]

9. I took lisinopril-hctz for a few years...

now I take diltiazem & sotalol for blood pressure and rhythm control (I've had a couple bouts of afib recently), and hctz for edema. The hctz doesn't help much but it's better than nothing.

Just got back from a cardiac cath & MRI, in preparation for mitral valve repair or replacement.

[ohiosmith]

10. Good luck. Hope all goes well.

[REP]

12. I'm allergic to sulfa drugs

I take 120 mg when I get up and 120 mg before I go to bed. I sleep through the night, completely dry. I'm a very unusual kidney patient; I have very low blood pressure and always have (I just had to reduce my Cozaar dosage because I was near-fainting so often) but the edema is pretty bad (and colorful, as noted above).

Lasix is the name-brand furosemide; I take the generic but Lasix is easier to remember how to spell

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I call them my...

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... "YOU GO NOW" pills.
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.

[ohiosmith]

6. Tell me about it.

[Moondog]

11. Welcome

to the wonderful of hypertension. For about an hour I tend stay close to home starting an hour or so after taking mine in the AM.

On edit: Added a missing word - "starting", and omitted a couple of superfluous words to clear up my post.

[ohiosmith]

13. Took my first at 11:30 am. Worn the wax off the tile going back and forth to the washroom.

[davsand]

19. The effects do get better after you have been on them for a while.

At first, you are carrying a bunch of surplus water. After a couple of weeks it does seem like you get dessicated enough that you are not quite so miserable.



Laura

[ohiosmith]

21. I hope so.

[davsand]

14. I did a few months on diuretics when I first started on HBP meds.

All in all, it did make me stay closer to the potty, but as far as side effects they were some of the easiest to adjust to. The one thing I do want to urge you to be wary about, is time in the sun. I walked a 4th of July parade when I was on them and I just about passed out from the heat/dehydration. I couldn't finish the parade route and ended up riding in the back of some guy's pick up truck slugging away on a bottle of water and waving like a fool.



Laura

[ohiosmith]

17. Thanks!

[applegrove]

15. My dad takes them in the morning. Hangs nearby to a bathroom until early afternoon. Then he's

alright.

[ohiosmith]

18. Till the afternoon? Bummer!

[Bruce Wayne]

16. Don't fall for that cult's PR. L. Ron Hubbard was full of shit!

Do some research on it; read around. I'm sure you'll find a better place to explore your spirituality.

[ohiosmith]

20. Bwahahahaha! DUDE! I damn near wet myself.