I have AF of the heart and have a build up of fluid on lungs, I developed swelling in all joints mostly ankles and knees, I was giving furosemide 40 mg.
What time of day would I benefit from taking this tablets
What time of day/night is best to take furosemide?
Question posted by Tony James on 27 Oct 2017
Last updated on 27 October 2017
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Furosemide is a relatively short acting diuretic. While your doctor should be giving you this information, you need to learn all you can know about how any drug affects your body, and adjust to what's in your best interests. I stopped following my doctor's prescription taking furosemide and hydrochlorothiazide because he didn't recognize the side effects they they were causing (even though I was reporting them at every visit) and didn't adjust either the dose or timing of dosing. Take control of what you put in your body. I personally would not take furosemide after 5 hours before bedtime. I also split the 40mg dose they were giving me into two 20mg doses immediately after rising and again five hours later. Do read the literature, and understand that most of the drugs you take are making alterations to the way your body works and often interract with other drugs you take as well as foods. Understand that furosemide is known to cause irreversible deafness in some doses, which happened to me in one ear. Do not count on your doctor to closely monitor your reactions to your drug taking on an outpatient basis, you have to assert yourself at the first signs of problems. You have to do your homework and know what those problems might be. Your doctor has legal protections and insurance if something goes wrong with your body, you don't. And don't rely entirely on information you read from other laymen.
I'll take the guidance of Masso any day of the week, he always provides the link to the information and is not universally negative. This is a help site not a medical diagnostic site hence the warnings on just about every page saying this is not a substitute for advice from a doctor. If people can read they do not need you to reiterate a standard form warning.
As furosemide is a diuretic I would take in the morning, that way you can sleep and not constantly have go to the bathroom @ night.
https://www.drugs.com/furosemide.html
BTW, what did your Dr. recommend?
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atrial fibrillation, furosemide, swelling, knee, heart, lungs, lung, ankle
Further information
- Furosemide uses and safety info
- Furosemide prescribing info & package insert (for Health Professionals)
- Side effects of Furosemide (detailed)
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