me than you. I'm scattered. Ten years ago this month, my husband had several bypasses. After surgery, he was put on Lasix twice a day; his BP meds also have the highest dose of HCTZ in them.

After a few days, he started having trouble breathing. The cardiologist found fluid between the layers of his lungs and in his lungs. They drained off almost a liter of fluid. A few weeks later, it was back and more than a liter that time. He had it drained several times until it got to were it was every few days. They decided to go in and put talc between the layers of his lungs to keep it from happening. When they went in, they found 3 layers of dried blood inside his lungs, where he had been bleeding out because there were too many diuretics for him.

He had the stent on April 1 and was given the same double Lasix as well as the HCTZ in is BP meds. He began having problems soon after. He had to go have a bunch of tests done, and decided that he had an infection so they treated him with steroids. Seemed to work and he felt better, but not ok for about a week to 10 days after finishing a 5-day course. Then he started having trouble breathing again. They put him on antibiotics. On Wednesday, he had an appt with his PCP, who remembered all the problems he had after the bypass and wanted to take a chest X-ray and found fluid. He went to Cardio the next day, which did more tests and determined that it wasn't his heart and sent him for a CT scan and made an appt with a pulmonologist the next day. The pulmonologist decided that it was allergies but we are still concerned that he is bleeding into his lungs and his PCP.