Hey everyone,
So, spiro is a potassium sparing diuretic but I was wondering if your body sort of adapts to this?
If you’ve been on it for a while, does the diuretic effect lessen? Would a persons weight reflect their muscle mass + bones + body fat etc plus the “normal” amount of liquid they’d have in their blood, tissues etc or is it still possible to bloat and retain fluid on spiro?
I know that when estrogen levels increase during a monthly cycle, a persons body tends to retain fluid which is shed after a period. Does spiro (being a diuretic) prevent this from happening? If it does, does the effect become less apparent with time?
Would love to have this explained :)
Im not an md, but ive been taking it about 2 years. I have not noticed less bloating during my period and I would say my body still isnt “used” to the increased water intake. I get dehydrated much easier now versus pre spiro. Beware of cramping!
>If you’ve been on it for a while, does the diuretic effect lessen?
It doesn’t. You learn to reduce consumption of other things that are diuretic like caffeine and alcohol, to drink water more slowly throughout the day, and to not drink a bunch of water at once unless you want to pee 9 times in 3 hours.
>Would a persons weight reflect their muscle mass + bones + body fat etc plus the “normal” amount of liquid they’d have in their blood, tissues etc or is it still possible to bloat and retain fluid on spiro?
I don’t really know the answer to this question, but it’s more useful for me to weigh myself daily at different times of day and consider my actual weight as an average of the last 5 weights. I’m not 168 because I weighed that yesterday and not 164 because I weighed that today. I’m “somewhere between 164 and 168.” Weight seems to just fluctuate by 4-5lbs depending on day and time and how recently I last ate and how recently I last used the bathroom. It’s non-useful to consider any fluctuation of <5lbs an actual change in weight.