Why would Hydrochlorothiazide cause you to retain water?!
Question: Why would Hydrochlorothiazide cause you to retain water?
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It is a diuretic so it should not be causing your water retention. Is it possible you are taking in more salt than you normally do? Diet soda is loaded with salt (sodium) and then fast foods are also. Are you eating salty snacks because you are on a "water pill" and think it will get rid of the extra fluid? That is not the case if you are, you can't eat more salt thinking the water pill will get rid of the extra fluid, it won't. If none of this information is anything you are doing, then you need to see your Dr and tell him about you retaining more fluid since starting the pills.
work in medical field 20+years
This is a common problem with the medical profession - they don't understand dehydration and so they prescribe diuretics to remove water from the body when it's already short of water.
The water retention in your legs is edema. This happens when you're dehydrated and the body needs to store extra salt in order to retain the extra water it needs. Then, to make things worse, your doctor prescribes a water pill to take out even more water that you can't afford to lose.
High blood pressure is caused by dehydration.
Increase your water intake and quit eating salt for a few days until your edema symptoms subside and the swelling in your legs goes down. The water by itself will flush out the extra salt. Then slowly increase your salt intake according to the protocol you'll find through the link below.
Finally, you should quit drinking soft drinks and other water substitutes. These contain sugar, caffeine and other additives that alter the nutritional value, turning them into diuretics that pull out as much as 50% more water than they contain. They are major players in dehydration. This is how your blood pressure got raised in the first place.
The body requires water, and it won't function properly on anything else.
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You should call your doctor, it is a diuretic. My hubby takes it, too, and I haven't found any info on bloating being caused by it. I'm not going to make any guesses on what's causing the water weight, but you should definitely talk to your doc. Take care.