I have been on what the medical profession calls a cleansing diet. they usual are not as helpful with water retention. indeed most doctors could not tell you how much you carry over normal weight.
Yet I know the detective is really you. How much do you in this modern age want to look and feel better? it is all really up to you. and for those of you wondering how I know I got a severe water edema. There is a scale that I have been on. its a tatiana scale and it weight total body weight. I recorded in Feb 2003 at thirty pounds over normal and the nurse pulled me aside at my health and fitness center and warned me of this condition is a serious threat. That normal body weight should on this scale be around 8 to 11 pounds. and as I am youngish. She reasoned I should consult my doctor for a medical condition which I did not have serious side effects.
Well I continued to go about life. having Asthma and it being a more serious nature. I often go to my doctors. I had two I went to. one I had as a back up. they were my family doctors. So I forgot on several visit for nearly a year. I later found that this condition which effected other areas of my self was a side effect of water edema.
I told my doctor Gupta in June of 2004. I only recalled it because I was also suffering chest pains and I though they were from my spleen. She tested me for Congestive Heart Diseases. the test took around several months to get all back to my doctor. and the day she corrected my chest pain as heart she also cautioned me of my having potential for a heart attack and placed me on bedrest. She was also aware that my asthma was not as well. And at my job I was asked to go full time and I was increasingly fatigued. I complained it was crazy. I was tired all the time.
Well being on bedrest. with information of possible heart disease. I was shattered. I decided to be a very good patient. Since I had a stressful job and life situations the last few years were hard on me. I felt to take time off to heal my health. I decided to learn of water edema. and I took a serious of pills which none of which worked for me.
I first tried furosemide. I fully expected to see the water seep out of me. when I thought it wasen't working I actually drank up to a gallon more water. by now I was under the impression from several websites which said if you drank more you lose more.
this did not work for me. my doctor tried me on torsemide, kept me on the bedrest after a month of the lasix med first used did not help. I took two weeks for the next pill and was seen after some blood test came back. my Doctor Gupta then described me butetanide which made me go one urination in the morning and increased it flow. I had grown used to my irritable bowel movement which were painful. I though this was because I like cheese. and saddly forgot to tell my doctor of all my conditions. if at the moment I was not suffering it. I ususal forgot to speak of having suffered it.
I researched the web sites. and learned of the waterfall diet. I checked web sites out. and I was feeling to try the waterfall diet. however my book store was sold out. and I decided as time went on to start August off on the diet. from the forum I learned alittle. along with the other web sites. Yet I choose Lindas book simple because of how she wrote it. in terms which I could understand. and that being I order the book.
When I order the book I was told of multiple reasons for water retention and was afraid because Linda's subjects were all under my thirty pounds. and it looked from the surveys on each water problem that I had five of the areas of seven wrong with me. I saw the long term effect and knew since I could squeese my face and get water running down it that I was in for the long haul.
So on returning to my doctor I noticed that my 187 lb weight was over 200lb in that short time where I was using the sourth beach diet to not gain weight on bedrest. I was shocked.
When I went to my doctor. She approved the cleansing diet which she called linda's book. and I started the diet officially correct in September early as I recieved it.
I also decided to get my long term doctor Razzaque to check me out as he was a gastronolgist. and he was thrilled at my diet. he approved linda's guidelines changing the fruits to limit to 2 a day. I was told that it could take up to two and half years as some patients took that long.
I was sad by that since I wanted the fast cure. but linda's book showed the damage which that areas were damaged needed healing. So I thought to speed it up with multi vitamins. I consulted linda several times during the stage I call cappilaries healing. That lasted 6 months. After which I began to add food to my diet slowly. I never checked twizzlers as I saw slice fruit candy was made with pectin. later I would regret not checking. So to get on with it. It was around March that I began to add foods and saw very few proublems. I continued the fresh foods practice and ate new foods sparingly.
In July. I began to lose water. yet oddly I also did stop and never checked why. I figured the heat could be why. Now I know that the sometimes candy twizzlers stalled my water weight loss.
