#furosemide

GV here.

So my dumb bad luck charm scared the ever living crap out of me. Over the last couple of weeks of me working over time Gaigax’s been acting really sluggish. Monday to Tuesday he stopped eating completely and managed to take him into the vet. Left picture is an xray from Tuesday. Lungs where both a 1/4 of the size that they where supposed to be, and heavily cloudy. He had so much liquid surrounding them that all he could do was take short immediate breaths. The vet took a sample and sent it to a pathologist to check, the doctor immediately thinking that it was cancer, due to the large bruise he had on his stomach. Waited a full three days, with him hospitalized over night, me telling the vet to give him an IV to keep his fluids up while we waited for the results. She also gave him a type of medication, Furosemide, that would slowly help drain the extra fluid out of his lungs/body. Waiting for the test results almost killed me. I can’t tell you how hard it is trying to prep yourself to put an animal down. Realistically I knew that I couldn’t spend more than a $1000 on him; but it tears me up having to think of my baby like totalling out a car.. When the test results came back, the doctor said that they where “Better than she expected” but still wanted me to come in and sit down and come up with a game plan for treatment. Pathologist came back and found no bacterial or cancer cells in the fluid. In fact she gave me a whole list of about 20 different things that it MIGHT be, but long story short have no idea what caused it. The Furosemide has taken his lungs back to about 5/8th clear, (vet took a second xray to make sure how his progress was going on the medication, and didn’t charge me for it. Thusly, I don’t have the second picture.) Just watching him closely, and keeping him on the medication for another week max to see how it goes.

Some of you know I was in a coma from the end of May until close to two weeks later, and other health stuff went bad while I was there, but that’s another post. I had a seizure that knocked me into one, and while I did get an epilepsy diagnosis(I was having silent seizures long before I was ever on this pill), what caused the seizure that day was brought on by a pill called Furosemide- the generic for Lasix. It also comes in liquid, mine was the pill form.

I have documented issues with my electrolytes and such, but was never warned that Furosemide can tank that bad enough to put you in a coma. It is an extreme side-effect that doesn’t happen to everyone, but it did to me, and I want to warn others to be safe. It can also cause regular seizures in some.

For me, the lower dosages stopped working and it had to be upped to 80mg, but I didn’t take it every day, only as needed and never more than one. I’m on my legs a lot and have issues with them retaining fluid and swelling.

It’s a water-pill with many things it can be prescribed for, but if you’re on it, please be careful and drink some powerade or other electrolyte drink to keep it up. I’m still messed up from the coma time and not fully recovered from it, made alot of progress though. I don’t want anyone else to go through what I did and am making this warning to hopefully help others.

The Scientific Research Notes of S. Sunkavally (years: 2002-2011).

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