Coconut Water

One of the side problems from the auto accident, and losing my kidneys, is that all of my long used medications have to be changed.  I think the doctors have done well on getting my substitutions to work.  However, there seems to be no replacement for diuretics..

I remembered something about coffee and tea having a diuretic effect.  Well, I hate the taste of coffee!  But I am a tea fiend!  So, I set about drinking a ton of tea daily.  Net result leg swelling and massive angina problems.  Okay, so I switched to decaf tea ....  That stopped the angina.  But utter swelling failure.

Not to let my enthusiasm be dampened, I needed to find something as the pain was getting unbearable!  I even tried compression hose!  But don't tell anyone whom holds any respect for me ...

And then I got to remembering something about one of my friends, it was pre-surgery, so very hard to remember!  But they are into coconut water as a cure all.  So I hopped on the internet to discover that coconut is a touted cure all.  Sigh, I hate the piles of garbage on the internet!

So, I went to the local grocery store and picked up two pint containers of coconut water.

The taste was mildly sweet but no added sweetener on the label.  A pint of the water  has about as many carbs as a slice of sliced bread, so no real diabetes worries.

All I can say is that, that pint of coconut water put me in the restroom for about 3 hours!  Net result was a 50% reduction in swelling in my leg!  Who would have thought?

So I have continued to drink one pint every morning and watching my leg continue down in size.  This morning my skin was feeling like it was not mine at all.  Covered in dead skin, I thought I was shedding a sunburn!  So, it seems that coconut water does work as a diuretic ... now if only it forced kidney regrowth ... sigh ...

Next up will be trying this every other day to see if that is acceptable.