Its a pill tons of people take

@sallypup (69176)
Centralia, Washington
January 19, 2016 5:56pm CST
Good old Lasix. Common enough pill. What's it for? It cuts down fluid. Fluid retention in the legs and other places like your heart and lungs is not cool. Your body is happiest when it does not have excess fluid hanging around. I sit here cutting teeny Lasix pills in half with a pill cutter. The other use for Lasix is lowering a person's blood pressure. I already have medium low blood pressure. Taking a whole dose will spin my pressure down to the 90s. Big oops. I'm hoping this stuff will help ease some of the pressure in my right ear. Here's to hope as I chop pills in half.
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Tiff Gray
@T_gray (7772)
• Salina, Kansas
21 Jan 16
I was taking a similar pill for blood pressure that was also for fluid retention as this one is. Well it ended up dropping my potassium levels to dangerous levels. So I had to get off of this pill. It doesn't happen to everyone. My potassium levels were already low to start I guess, so this didn't help the matter any. I got on another pill for blood pressure and am not taking potassium pills, and nothing for water retention.
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Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (69176)
• Centralia, Washington
21 Jan 16
@t-gray Becoming low on potassium is very very common with this pill. You are right. That's not a good thing.
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Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (69176)
• Centralia, Washington
21 Jan 16
@T_gray My doc gave me a prescription for potassium as well as the Lasix.
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Tiff Gray
@T_gray (7772)
• Salina, Kansas
21 Jan 16
@sallypup Really? I didn't realize it was common. That surprises me because when they were trying to figure out why my potassium was so low it took them forever to realize it was my blood pressure meds.
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MARILYN
@Marilynda1225 (91076)
• United States
21 Jan 16
I have a small dose of Lasix in my blood pressure pill.
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moondebi
@moondebi (1199)
• Bangalore, India
20 Jan 16
Hope the medicine works for you. Water retention is not anyway a good sign for kidney.
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Judy Story
@jstory07 (148730)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21 Jan 16
I hope the pill works for you. I cut my husband heart pills i half for him.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382036)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan 16
I chop big pills in half so I can swallow them more easily. I think there is a pill-cutter you can use, isn't there? Or is that what you're using?
Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (69176)
• Centralia, Washington
20 Jan 16
@judyev When the doc saw how affected I was by the original dose she gave me a little plastic pill cutter gizmo.
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Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (69176)
• Centralia, Washington
20 Jan 16
@JudyEv Pottasium pills are the worst. They're huge and rock like. I gag on them.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382036)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan 16
@sallypup It would be very difficult without one of those gizmos :) particularly with tiny pills.
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paigea
@paigea (36143)
• Canada
20 Jan 16
My regular blood pressure is 90/60. Anyway I hope the pills work for you. I have never had to take anything like that yet.
Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (69176)
• Centralia, Washington
20 Jan 16
Wow @paigea That is low blood pressure.
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Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (69176)
• Centralia, Washington
20 Jan 16
@paigea That's about where I was at the time I had pneumonia. The nurses followed me around in the office, making sure I got from one chair to the next.
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paigea
@paigea (36143)
• Canada
20 Jan 16
@sallypup It's been that all my life so it's my normal.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502429)
• Italy
20 Jan 16
I have never took those pills and I hope not to need them, my blood pressure is 90/60, I cannot go lower.
peggy baker
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
20 Jan 16
I hope that the pills work for your hearing to that would be such a positive note Did they say how many you could safely take?.
Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (69176)
• Centralia, Washington
20 Jan 16
@softbabe44 Maybe cause of my Fibromyalgia I am sensitive to any meds. Even over the counter pain meds make me sleepy! I can take half the dosage- 10 mg per day and not feel any ill effects. And I do not lose water that well cause of the low dose. BUT I have to have blood pressure and the ability to walk without fainting!
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peggy baker
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
22 Jan 16
@sallypup I have fibromyalgia too things are hard to deal with a lot of the time.
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peggy baker
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
22 Jan 16
@sallypup I can understand where you're coming from.
Jessica
@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
21 Jan 16
Do u have fluid in your ears? I've heard that putting some hydrogen peroxide in your ears can help dry them out. Maybe that will help.