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Can Lasix Cause Weight Gain?
Question: I am on 40 mg of lasix for unexplained severe swelling of legs. Have gained 12 pounds
Brief Answer:
I recommend performing some tests to establish the cause.
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Thank you for asking on HCM!
I understand your concern and would like to explain that the legs swelling and weight gain seem to be related to an excessive water retention from your body.
This clinical scenario, may be related to different disorders such as:
- heart failure
- liver disorders
- kidney disorder
- venous insufficiency of lower limbs, etc.
A careful differential diagnosis between these different causes is necessary to be done.
Lasix is a diuretic drug, which helps removing excessive water from the organism, by increasing the urinary output.
I would like to know what kind of tests you have performed.
I recommend consulting with your GP for a careful physical examination, a resting ECG and cardiac ultrasound, a chest x ray study, an abdominal ultrasound and some lab tests:
- complete blood count
- kidney and liver function tests
- blood electrolytes
- blood osmolarity
- blood fasting sugar
- blood electrolytes
- cortisol plasma levels (adrenal gland function)
- urine analysis and urinary osmolarity.
A Doppler ultrasound of the leg vessels should be done to exclude possible venous insufficiency leading to leg swelling.
You should discuss with your doctor on the above mentioned issues.
Hope to have been helpful!
Feel free to ask any other questions, whenever you need!
Greetings!
Dr. Iliri
I recommend performing some tests to establish the cause.
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Thank you for asking on HCM!
I understand your concern and would like to explain that the legs swelling and weight gain seem to be related to an excessive water retention from your body.
This clinical scenario, may be related to different disorders such as:
- heart failure
- liver disorders
- kidney disorder
- venous insufficiency of lower limbs, etc.
A careful differential diagnosis between these different causes is necessary to be done.
Lasix is a diuretic drug, which helps removing excessive water from the organism, by increasing the urinary output.
I would like to know what kind of tests you have performed.
I recommend consulting with your GP for a careful physical examination, a resting ECG and cardiac ultrasound, a chest x ray study, an abdominal ultrasound and some lab tests:
- complete blood count
- kidney and liver function tests
- blood electrolytes
- blood osmolarity
- blood fasting sugar
- blood electrolytes
- cortisol plasma levels (adrenal gland function)
- urine analysis and urinary osmolarity.
A Doppler ultrasound of the leg vessels should be done to exclude possible venous insufficiency leading to leg swelling.
You should discuss with your doctor on the above mentioned issues.
Hope to have been helpful!
Feel free to ask any other questions, whenever you need!
Greetings!
Dr. Iliri
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
have had CT scan of lower/mid back, X ray back, spinal, chest; pain is in upper middle back on right hand side...could diseased or defective gall bladder be causing this ??
have severe PTSD, have spent 6 weeks in hospital comatose do not want a such
what tests do you suggest?
have severe PTSD, have spent 6 weeks in hospital comatose do not want a such
what tests do you suggest?
Brief Answer:
I recommend you to continue with the other tests I mentioned before.
Detailed Answer:
Hello again!
Thank you for the information provided!
The pain in the right hand side of your back, could be related to a gall bladder as well as to the right kidney.
You should perform an abdominal ultrasound and liver and kidney function tests (lab tests) to exclude these possible disorders.
Regarding the weight gain, it may be related to depression and PTSD, but it would not explain the leg swelling.
The performed CT scan can exclude a possible radicular compression or disk displacement in your column.
Also a chest x ray could evaluate the heart dimensions but not its function.
I recommend you to discuss with your doctor on the other tests I mentioned before (cardiac ultrasound and blood lab tests), to find the possible cause of your clinical situation.
Hope to have been helpful!
Best wishes,
Dr. Iliri
I recommend you to continue with the other tests I mentioned before.
Detailed Answer:
Hello again!
Thank you for the information provided!
The pain in the right hand side of your back, could be related to a gall bladder as well as to the right kidney.
You should perform an abdominal ultrasound and liver and kidney function tests (lab tests) to exclude these possible disorders.
Regarding the weight gain, it may be related to depression and PTSD, but it would not explain the leg swelling.
The performed CT scan can exclude a possible radicular compression or disk displacement in your column.
Also a chest x ray could evaluate the heart dimensions but not its function.
I recommend you to discuss with your doctor on the other tests I mentioned before (cardiac ultrasound and blood lab tests), to find the possible cause of your clinical situation.
Hope to have been helpful!
Best wishes,
Dr. Iliri
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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