I suffer from severe edema, fluid in lungs and around heart impairing my respiration & heart also. Can someone explain to me, when a victim undergoes diuresis by drugs or ultrafiltration, exactly HOW DOES the water trapped within the limbs, tissues, etc, which traversed the veins & capillaries in the first place - since the diuretics remove water content from the bloodstream, then HOW DOES the edema throughout the body go away, even if temporarily? doesn't it need to re-enter the bloodstream where it came out from? and how long for this to happen?? I know the diuretics and ultrafiltration have not a DIRECT effect to drain water from fatty tissues in my thighs, etc.
I have painful pitting edema, legs bursting with water pressure internally. I don't respond to diuretic drugs & I will not enter hospital. I am uninsured, and have no one to take me in if I lose my finances. I am unemployed & cannot quality for ANY govt $$$ since I have funds of my own. Kindly reveal to me.
2007-03-11
17:36:52
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