Well, my mom suddenly got severe swelling in both legs, so much that her legs were turning red. She went to the Doc and they put her on Lasix (as a diuretic) and determined her heart was a little enlarged, but said it wasn't a big problem. She has been on Lasix for at least a month, during which time they have raised her Lasix up to I think 120mg per day..... AND IT'S STILL NOT WORKING!!! She doesn't understand why the swelling won't go down at all. Her Doc is a retard and all he's doing is taking her money, so I told her to find another Doc. So she is in the process right now of trying to find another Doctor to get a second opinion. My question: Has anyone ever had experience with this problem, and if so, what was done to make the problem better or what was the diagnosis? Or maybe there is a Doc or Nurse reading this that has some info. I am really worried about her and don't know what to do. Any info would be GREATLY appreciated. She does not have any underlying conditions that she has been diagnosed with in the past and she only drinks about once every couple of weeks. Common sense would tell me that the Doc she has been seeing has tested her urine, but since this Doc acts like he got his degree online, maybe they didn't. I will have to ask my mother about that one. I'll get back to you. Severe swelling in the legs is generally caused by one of three things, listed from most common to least common:
1. Congestive heart failure. This is probably what the doctor thinks your mom has because of her enlarged heart. Clues that it's heart failure: if she gets short of breath while lying down or at night, if she gets short of breath on exertion (like walking or climbing stairs). If she's actually in heart failure she probably needs other drugs for her heart in addition to lasix.
2. Cirrhosis (severe liver damage). Has she ever had hepatitis? Are the whites of her eyes yellow? Is she or has she ever been a heavy drinker? Clues that it's cirrhosis: blood tests looking at her liver enzymes.
3. Nephrotic syndrome- when your kidneys let too much protein into the urine. Is she diabetic? Does she have lupus or an amyloid disease or multiple myeloma? Even if she doesn't, she needs to have her urine tested.
So at her new doctor, she needs a blood test for liver enzymes and a urine test for protein. If it really is heart failure she needs to be on drugs to help her heart. Hope this helps! UPDATE: My mom found out today that the person she had been seeing wasn't even a doctor. He was an old physician's assistant!! Anyway, she went to her new doctor today and they determined she has CHF. They are sending her to a lab tomorrow for a bunch of tests. Thanks everyone!! Report It
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Here is the best remedy/cure you can use. It's called hydrotherapy. Using hot and cold water to generate blood circulation where the body needs it most. THis process has been used for thousands of years and proved to be one of the most productive. Hot water brings blood to the surface and cold water surpresses it downward, in turn generating new blood cells into the diseased part of the body. Ideally, you also want to use pressure (like strong showerheads) to penetrate the body's depths for quicker results. Also intaking cayenne pepper is the internal king circulator. Moves blood like no other.
I would start by getting a bucket of hot water (hot as you can take it) and an ice filled bucket of water. Just go back and forth with each bucket about a minute each. Do this 10 times or so. Do this 2-3 times a day for as long as it takes to heal.
Best option is to use the shower for this method with the hot and cold water. A lot more effective. Go 1 minute hot (dont burn yourself) then 1 minute cold (all the way cold) for a rotation of 7-10 times. End on cold. Again do this 2-3 times a day and you'll be healed very quickly.
Here is more information about Hydrotherapy and some testimonials for curing big diseases.
How you can use hydrotherapy at home to SPEED - UP any cure.
The best and cheapest thing any human can do to cure their disease is use water therapy.
You need to do two basic things :
1) Apply hot and cold water, as hot as possible and as cold as you can get it, to a diseased area.
2) Take hot and cold showers, or a hot shower, then jump in a bathtub of ice-cold water, or water with 20 - 40 pounds of ice in it.
The purpose of these two techniques is not torture. It is to BLAST blood into sick areas that are not getting enough blood. Until you do that, expect to stay sick.
There was one man who tired the programs for skin cancer, and they did not work. But he omitted one thing: the hot and cold showers. As soon as he did them, his skin cancer went away.
Simple Rules : For those who are frail, use common sense and start slowly. For instance, on babies, use warm water and cool water. Obviously, be gentle.
To get the most results, work yourself up to using as hot as you can stand it - without burning your skin - and as cold as you can stand it. When I do it at home, I don鈥檛 just use cold water. I found it works much better with bags of ice.
You do this at least twice a day. Once is a hot and cold shower, perhaps three of them if you are real sick. You do seven repetitions of hot and cold. If your shower doesn鈥檛 get real cold, use ice cubes in a bathtub. If you don鈥檛 have a bathtub, perhaps rub yourself with a wet, icy towel. Do your best.
Then, always use hot and cold directly on the sick or injured area - not just all over. This is essential.
For the cayenne oil, here is a simple formula.
A Formula for a cayenne heating oil.
Here is a formula anyone can make.
In a glass jar with a tight leakproof lid, place...
5 tablespoons of the HOTTEST cayenne powder you can find (over 250,000 heat units is suggested.) 20 ounces of Jojoba, Olive or Almond oil.
Make it on the New Moon and let it sit until the Full Moon, making sure to shake it every day. On the Full Moon, press or strain off the liquid.
Caution, this can be extremely hot. Start with a little and work your way up in amount.
Common mistakes made by readers who try hydrotherapy.
Due to timidity, readers under use this treatment. They don鈥檛 do it often enough, and they don鈥檛 do it strong enough. They don鈥檛 like to shiver, or they find it uncomfortable. Forget that. To me, continued sickness is more uncomfortable.
For example, when you are really ill, people should do hot and cold showers as much as 30 minutes a day, three times a day, 2 minutes cold and 5 minutes hot.
For people less ill, try 15 minutes once a day, 7 repetitions each of hot and cold.
Use your imagination. One reader saved his wife from a colon operation by using extremely hot and cold wet towels, back and forth, over her intestinal area.
For people with heart problems.
You can put really hot water, in the shower, or with hot towels, right on the chest, and then alternate with ice cold water or ice, and then go back and forth for seven times.
Start mild, depending on the person鈥檚 strength and vitality. Do not overshock them when they are weak. Use good judgement in everything. You can add hydrotherapy to the herbal compresses for serious heart disorders.
Hydrotherapy cured GANGRENE.
Several months ago, a man in the South had gangrene developing. He is an older man, a diabetic. His doctor said if it wasn鈥檛 better in days, his right foot was coming off.
He took 6-8 teaspoons a day of extra-extra hot cayenne pepper, in divided doses day and night. He took them in a cold beverage, or it is too hot to get down. The powder form of cayenne is what he used, never capsules. Forget capsules.
Then, he filled two large buckets, one with hot water and one with ice water. He did this and went back and forth. Then he applied a cayenne heating oil to the sick area when he was done. His leg healed, all signs of gangrene are gone.
What he could have done, if he needed to, was to add herbs to the treatment. Here is what can be done, for those who need to know.
Fill a large tub with hot water, add 4 ounces of cayenne pepper powder, 4 ounces of Ginger root powder, and 4 ounces of mustard seed powder. Put these herbs in a dish towel, tie it closed, and put it in the bath like a big tea bag. You will see the water turn orange.
Then, fill a large bucket with cold water plus 10 pounds or more of ice in it. Plastic garbage bins and wash baskets work well for this. Put the leg, or whatever, into the very hot bath for 5 to 10 minutes and then immediately into the cold for at least 2 minutes, but 5 to 8 minutes is much better. Do at least 5 repetitions of this.
A Final word
One of the things that helps out a lot of you reading these old documents and realizing that even if you go to the extreme, you won鈥檛 be reaching what was done a hundred years ago.
As far out as it appears you are not even approaching the intensity of what the old healers knew they had to do.
These old people had no choice. It didn鈥檛 seem to extreme because, to them, it was much more extreme to die. So nothing they did seemed extreme.
Again, it is more powerful than herbs - because it is the therapy that gets the herbs through the blood to the sick area.
Best of health to you |
