I was taken ill a year ago with liver problems I was put on medication and my liver function is good now, all very pleased. During my last GP visit he told me that I'll probably need to take the tablets for life or at least some of them just as a safeguard against it reoccurring. During my illness my abdomen filled with fluid and they put me on two water tablets to dispers this as it could have put pressure on my heart and of course that can be fatal. I am just interested in knowing if anyone has taken similar tablets and if anyone knows of any risks in using them long term. I take Furosemide, Aldactone (spirodactone) with thiamine and a vitamin B Complex to counteract the negative effects of the diuretics. I am ok with taking these tablets long term as being healthy is the most important thing. I have a hospital appointment next month I want to be armed with any info but cant find anything on relevant sites. Has anyone had similar or used these long term, grateful for any advice! From what I understood you have cirrhosis and you had an episode of ascites last year. The medication was the proper medication and you should continue taking it. The diuretics, that is furosemide as well as spironolactone help you maintain a good balance with your fluid so that you will not have an ascites again. They are relatively safe meds, what you should be worrying about is low potassium from furosemide but this is counteracted with spironolactone(it prevents potassium from being excreted) so they are safe for you to use. But one of the most common side effects of spironolactone is gynaicomastia(swelling of the breasts if you are a man). Thiamine and Vit B complex are just supplements and the doc is not giving them to you to counteract the diuretics. There is no such connection. I really do not want to jump the gun here but the most common reason one would prescribe Vit B to a cirrhotic patient would be if the reason of the liver failure were due to alcohol use. Diuretics, sometimes called water pills, help rid your body of sodium and water. They work by making your kidneys excrete more sodium in urine. The sodium, in turn, takes water with it from your blood. That decreases the amount of fluid flowing through your blood vessels, which reduces pressure on the walls of your arteries.
In general, potential side effects of diuretics include increased urination, weakness, dizziness, impotence, dehydration and, depending on the type of diuretic, potassium decrease or increase, or sodium decrease. Yes I have been on Frusimede for about 10years and could not live without them. I take 80g a day and if I dont then I swell up terrible. Ihave had no side effects. I suffer with heart disease and kidney disease.
Hope this helps. Sorry, this is not a direct answer to your question, but I thought it might be helpful for you:
Psychological Vaccination against Diseases
The following analytical meditation will either cure your diseases or give you the ability to live happily with them or do both. Say to yourself:
I am ill
as most people of the world are.
All have some diseases or other:
either in the body or in the mind.
The body may have diseases for three reasons:
Inheritance
The consequence of karma and
Predetermination or Fate.
The blood that I was made from
had some special capabilities in it
together with some incapabilities.
The capabilities are intellect
power of memory,
physical strength
mental strength,
determination,
gentleness,
leadership,
or one or more other characteristics. From my forefathers I have got honor, wealth, relatives, habit, instinct, etc. These are the inheritances of which I am enjoying the benefits and also will continue to enjoy.
Therefore it is also my responsibility
to enjoy the inconveniences
that I have inherited.
If I do not accept the diseases
of my forefathers
then my children will not accept anything
from my disease, suffering, and responsibilities.
They will only receive my wealth
and throw me into the grave.
My mind asks me:
Why did my forefathers contact diseases?
Couldn鈥檛 it be otherwise?
And I have the answer to this question:
An individual or group survives only to achieve a goal, a cosmic purpose, which the individual or the nation achieves consciously or unconsciously
by dint of their capabilities or opportunities
or by way of satisfying the need of the instinct
or reacting to necessity.
But if that individual or nation
does something that may result in their inability to do that duty, then they fall prey to diseases as a consequence of the law of equilibrium.
There arrive in them weakness, inability, and at last control, as a result of which they cannot transgress the limits even if they ignorantly want to, or they simply do not want to do so.
As a result the divine possibility that is hidden in them
remains intact for a predetermined period
and gets transmitted into the next generation
in order to get expressed.
And as long as the tendency to transgress the limits
remains active in them
the diseases also keep hibernating in them
so as to save their worth.
Therefore the diseases that my forefathers have given me
are my real inheritance.
I whole-heartedly embrace all my diseases.
High blood pressure, diabetes
飥?these are not any diseases 飥?br>
they are doctors of humans飥?br>
teaching us the rules of self-control.
If somebody did not have these diseases,
then also, in order to be adequately human,
they would have to willingly control themselves
as much as they are doing now against their will.
It is good to be wise
after being afflicted by trouble.
Knowledge never forgives humans:
They have to be wise 飥?br>
willingly or unwillingly.
If a group of people remains ignorant for a long time,
then a time will come when its progeny
will either deny their unsuccessful, abominable past
or entomb the ignorance by acquiring a lot of knowledge.
Man becomes wise only by denying ignorance.
If an individual or group of people fails to do so
then they are destroyed.
Still that ignorance cannot be in vain
because its history makes others wise.
So it will not be good for me to take any more time to be wise.
Some diseases are created by my own karma.
The Quran as well as any other scripture says that
everything has its measure and limit.
For this reason a transgression in anything
upsets the equilibrium law of existence.
The consequence creates diseases 飥?br>
of the body and the mind.
At first what falls prey to diseases is the mind,
though usually the fact eludes our eyes.
Then the society.
And the body at last.
And epidemic!
The world is woven into the mesh of the law of causality.
If something is supposed to take place
as a result of something else taking place,
it must take place if the latter does.
Any exception is not desirable.
If a cause would not create the expected result,
then we could not desire good results after doing good deeds.
Because we expect good results from good acts,
we do not have the right to escape the consequences of something bad
once we have done it.
If, for example, I walk about in the rain and get wet as I please
for five hours
and catch cold and have fever,
then there is nothing to be surprised at.
Rather, I should be happy about it,
since nature has not violated her own rules.
If, on the other hand, I do not fall ill,
then that will seem abnormal.
The Quran says that man was created in toil.
Therefore if I want to remain healthy
without doing hard work or taking exercise
then it will sound absurd.
Lack of hard labor and excessive eating
are the causes of diabetes
and high blood pressure.
So I will take hard work as part of life.
There are some diseases that are predetermined
鈹€ be that predetermination set a million years or only an hour ago.
Whatever has been preordained for me according to the Universal Wisdom
is undoubtedly good for me.
That is because it is a test for me.
The desire to get a certificate without sitting for the exam
is only a vain desire.
In the race with hurdles,
the hurdles are the most important things to enjoy.
A competition loses its right to be called a competition
when its hurdles are removed.
Whenever I get something as a grace from God
I also get some problems and diseases with it.
That is because in that way God limits my activities
and desires
so that I do not want to touch the sky.
Uncontrolled pleasure may be a cause of destruction.
Therefore, my Lord knows very well how much happiness
mixed with how much sorrows
will maintain the balance for me.
If I have patience, then,
when there will be no possibility
of my making any further undesirable mistake,
those troubles and diseases will vanish.
My body cannot tolerate some types of food.
This means that it will be good for me to stay away from them.
So I will control myself in such cases.
If the body could accept whatever the mind wants,
then neither the body nor the mind
would be pleasured
after getting any pleasure.
There are birds that time and again
eat some pebbles
even if there is no paucity of food.
When cats and dogs eat too much
they sometimes eat some amount of grass
or some sharp leaves of some plants
and vomit willingly.
What it all means is that
sometimes the body needs something
that is not tasty or pleasurable,
and that something that is pleasurable
may have to be discarded if taken too much.
Diseases do the cleaning in the body
about the things that might be fatal
in the future
even if they seem to be pleasurable at present.
The specialty of my personality
lies in my diseases.
However, there is nothing bad in using medicine,
rather, it is better than remaining ill.
Again, curing diseases
and showing the right attitude to them
are not the same thing.
When our attitude to diseases
becomes correct
we either get rid of all diseases
or are benefited by them more than harmed.
Source:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksea... Diurectics are often precribed long term as once you need them you often continue to need them. I have only taken them myself short term but have know others who have with no excess problems. Except the obverous one of needing the loo more, i have taken lasix(furosemide) and aldactone for more than 10 years with no bad side effects. i take a b complex vitamin also and occasionally i have to add stronger water pills to reduce the swelling. aldactone does not drain your electrolytes so it reduces the amount of micro-k that you need. |
