Weight Gain

I would agree with you in terms of speaking with a doctor. This is something I have already done and have gotten no where. Its one of those things where they don't want to be bothered.

Hello,

I am very certain on intake. In hours alone last evening I drank 2 liters. Only new medication is flomax (it should be noted that all of these predated that medication change. I also don't see any side effects that would cause this. In actuality, it should help with my water retention. . My urologist performed a bladder pressure test done a month or so ago to check things and that's when I was prescribed flomax.

@mph323

I agree with you that it is an alarming amount. I mean I have seen retention in the 6 maybe 7 pounds realm a few times, but nothing like that before. I did increase my salt intake some more, but I feel like that has just put this thirst issue into more overdrive. I woke up this morning and weight in at 176.5 so things are relatively the same. I did some accurate measuring of food intake yesterday just to fact check myself. My caloric intake was 1060. I put in a 2.25 hour mountain bike ride (20 miles) in trail. The trails here in North Jersey are nothing short of rock and hill climbs to give you perspective. Very vigorous right that I typically maintain a 10-12 mph average. Then about 5 hours or 20000 steps worth of yard work. This was mowing, cleaning out tons of metal around the house for trash, digging up underground sprinkler lines, etc. I obviously was drinking water during this time as well.

I am an extremely active person which is why I am so stumped by this. A couple of other things I did try was stopping my water pills and not taking milk of magnesia for a few days (I have IBS but can control it).

For a little additional insight. I eat a lot of salads, chicken, celery, carrots, dannon okios greek yogurt, strawberries, thomas light english muffins, coffee, green tee, plain selzer water, gatorade/powerade zero sugar, optimum nutrition (gold Stanadard) shakes (120 calories, 0 fat, 25g protein), cherries, oranges, bananas, low fat peanut butter, fat free milk, low sugar cereals (special k/cheerios). I do eat turkey hill sugar free ice cream once or twice a week but have done that for years.

That's the bulk. I try not to eat anything high in fats and I try to limit carbs.

Hopefully, I have been able to shed a little more light on this. I wanted to be as detailed as I could for perspective.

I suppose I wasn't exactly clear. Your 1st statement would be correct if that is how you read what I posted. I stopped my water pills prior to increasing my sodium intake. I am taking my water pills again and have dropped sodium intake back down. I hate salts as it is.

As far as intake, I can go low or I can go higher. I would say on average I am around 1500-1600. Yesterday just happened to be a day where I was able to satisfy my hunger with celery sticks and some strawberries throughout the day. I just happened to be extremely thirst driven yesterday.

I advocate for myself and have self diagnosed most of my issues thus far. I think my doctors consider me a PIA because I make them test for things and low and behold we find something. I am 100% sure there is thyroid involvement and to some extent, pituitary. Blood tests keep coming back fine, but we need to catch it in the act.

What I am looking for is another thought, theory, idea, etc. As I said, this is just being dismissed and it's really pissing me off now.

Medical advise is only as good as the professional who is welling to dive outside the box and outside their specialty. Saying I only specialize in the brain does me no good. When one doctor says see doctor x and then doctor x says go see doctor y (the doctor who referred me to x) there is an issue.