Hello Everyone!

Long time reader...first time poster... I am so full of it. :w00t: Well that is why I am posting to be honest. I am currently on a med that causes Water retention. I feel like auditioning for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as a blimp. (My stomach is actually bigger than my "merchandise".) :biggrin:

I am good about controlling my salt intake. My husband makes all our food from scratch 80% of the time, no packaged crap, and no dining out, and I am an excellent water drinker. My question is this: Should I ask my lapband doctor: "Is a water pill right for me?"

I am seeing him on Wednesday, and I am not quite sure exactly what a water pill does, but does anyone else take it? Does taking the pill cause discomfort with their band? It would be a great help to know if it is doable, so he doesn't look at me as if I am from another planet.

(To be honest I didn't work this hard to get my shelf back, and to make matters worse I can't use it for Cookies or coke!):crazy:

whats the name of the meds your on. I take a water retention pill and it actually pulls the fluid off of me, i had to start taking it because i had heart failure 10 mths ago due to to much fluids building up on my heart and lungs, i would definetly check about this cause to much fluids can cause congestive heart failure.

In this respect, the band was a Godsend. I used to retain water all the time and was also on a water pill that worked with my blood pressure medicine. I was always puffy in the morning. My hands and face were bad. I couldn't see my ankles or the bones in my feet. Since the band, I am no longer on a water pill, I'm on half the blood pressure meds I was on, and I have no water retention what so ever. It's glorious........ All my rings have to be resized now, and half my shoes don't fit anymore.

I've taken a water pill (Maxide or Diazide) for years for fluid retention. I had to stop because after I lost 60 lbs my blood pressure was dropping too low. I did not affect my band at all. :tongue:

Don't know about the water.. your husband cooks 80% of the time... does he have a brother?