Well, it is clear that I am going up and down, weight-wise. As I indicated in my last post, I have begun to reflect more carefully on this after the heart failure docs worried about my gains. Recall that they want me to take torsemide (Lasix) whenever I get an overnight gain of 1.5 lbs or more. I have resisted at least in part because these gains seem to be related to eating and drinking too much the day/evening before. Also, I seem to plateau for awhile suggesting that the gains are real weight.
Abandon that last thought! On 22 Jan I was 226.3. That was a 1.1 lb increase from the day before, but was determinative because I could see water in my ankles after a day on my feet. So I took a pill. Result--as I posted last time--was a loss of 8.1 lbs to 218.2. That was the most water-weight I have expelled in one day ever. The following day I put back on 2.1 lbs. By rights I should have taken another pill at that time, But I did not. The next day I jumped another 1.6 lbs (221.9). Clearly another torsemide was necessary. The following day I had lost another 6.3 lbs to 215.6. In other words I had gone from 226.3 on 22 Jan to 215.6 lbs on 26 Jan, a loss of 10.7 lbs in 4 days. Since then I have gained I have gained 5.1 lbs to today's weight of 221.7. I am going to have to take another pill.
The pills themselves are innocuous enough except that they require one to be near a urinal about every half hour for about 6 hours. I have begun taking them in the early afternoon so as not to impede workouts and errands and not interfere with sleep at night. One also takes a potassium pill as the dehydration is apparently hard on the kidneys and the potassium helps with that.
Yet I want to be careful about dehydration. It is and was signaled this past week with leg and foot cramps during sleep at the 215 lb level.
Stay tuned....
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