{"id":120975,"date":"2009-12-31T16:21:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T21:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/other-medications\/47135-hydrochlorothiazide-circulation-issues.html"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T21:21:54","slug":"hydrochlorothiazide-circulation-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/120975","title":{"rendered":"Hydrochlorothiazide \/ Circulation Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"
In addition to the diabetes, my Dr. is treating me for high blood pressure. One of the meds I take for that is a water pill called Hydrochlorothiazide. It just makes you pee out the liquids in your body so your heart doesn’t have so much volume to push through the body. Seems to work well for lowering blood pressure. <\/p>\n

Anyway, ever since my diagnosis with the high blood pressure and consequently diabetes about 3 months ago, I’ve been noticing that one or both of my arms fall asleep during the night when I sleep. I sleep on my stomach with one arm under the pillow. And every few hours I wake up and notice that arm is asleep (lack of circulation, I assume). I hang the arm over the bed for a minute or so and the circulation resumes and it’s all good again. No big deal. But I know diabetics gotta worry about circulation issues and losing limbs, fingers, toes, etc. I am still fairly young – 38 yrs. old. So I assumed the circulation problems were more for those who were older and\/or not really watching their BG levels very well. And I watch and control my BG levels like a hawk. So I didn’t figure circulation would be a problem for me at this point. <\/p>\n

I am thinking the circulation in my arms is more of a result of the water pill. I take the pill, typically, just before dinner time. And it works quickly. By the time I go to bed (around midnight) I have emptied my bladder a good 4-5 times and usually one more time during the middle of the night. So I am pretty empty of liquids when I am sleeping. I am wondering if the water pill and lack of liquids is what is causing my arms to go to sleep and lose circulation at night. Maybe I should switch to taking this med in the morning instead of at dinner time. <\/p>\n

Anyone have experience with this? Do you think this makes sense? Or do the circulation problems with the arm I am experiencing just go hand and hand with diabetes?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to the diabetes, my Dr. is treating me for high blood pressure. One of the meds I take for that is a water pill called Hydrochlorothiazide. It just makes you pee out the liquids in your body so your heart doesn’t have so much volume to push through the body. Seems to work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}