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Hi doc.my mother has water retention problem due to wrong medicine side effect of thyroid causing serious swelling.so far none medication worked.pleas?

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Dr. G. Wen answered

Immediate medical: Immediate medical consult please. Your primary care physician will evaluate to figure out what medication caused fluid retention. And the following steps will be either lower the dose or discontinue the med for a period of time, or switch to other medication.

Answered 1/25/2014

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