Relief from swelling?

[Guest guest]

it sounds like Ascites and it hurts best way to compare it to is being

pregnant....i get a paracentesis ( drained) about every month. always have them

run a test on the fluid checking for infections, and there is side effects getting

infections from being poked...i would take that chance just to get rid of that fluid

2 weeks ago they drained me got 5 liter....last Thursday i was drained again

they got 7 liter.......yes i am on low low salt diet

i am sending you a web site that is worth watching ontube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFNgIzgKTw Jeanne

[Guest guest]

Thanks Jeanne. I'll check out the video later today when I have more time

(almost time to take

my daughter to school now). Anyway, the swelling has now moved into his left leg

and foot.

You can't see ANY bones at all in his left foot. He slept on the couch last

night so he could

keep his feet elevated. He is dead set AGAINST having the fluid drained. He

wants the dr to

prescribe him a diuretic. I called his transplant coordinator yesterday but she

was in clinic all

day. I'm going to try again today. He is miserable and had to walk around work

yesterday

with his pants undone. I wish he'd just have it drained. I'm sure he'd feel

better afterwards

but he doesn't want to because it hurts. Thanks for all of the advice &

suggestions.

[Guest guest]

I think his ambivalence comes from last year when they took a sample. They

didn't drain it all

but they took a syringe full to check for infection. He said they didn't numb

him before they

did it. It wouldn't surprise me either. This last time in the hospital they had

to be in a bigger

gage IV because he was going to be getting a blood transfusion and the nurse

said it is

hospital policy to numb the area with lydicane first. Funny, that was the first

we'd ever heard

about it. Apparently some are too lazy to do it even though it's hospital

policy. As soon as his

arm was numb he completely relaxed and the IV went right in. He really isn't a

wimp at all.

LOL He usually faces most procedures like no big deal. He just had such a

horrible experience

last year when they sampled the fluid that I think it traumatized him a bit. I

talked to him

earlier though after I spoke with his coordinator and he said most of the fluid

from his

abdomen is gone but know it's in his leg. So what on earth do you do about

that?????