Why were you forced to lose 50 pounds in 2 weeks? Water retention can be quite common in pregnancy. I'm unsure why your body may have been holding onto all that water, it seems like it would have been sweated out or urinated out of your system.

What I mean by forced is that due to the severe amount of fluid in my lungs I was given diuretic treatments. I weighed 191 pounds before leaving the hospital and three weeks after my daughter was born I was down to 120 and have stayed there. The orthopedic doctor I saw said that losing that much fluid so fast has caused me to lose the majority of fluid from between my disks. I think the doctors, knowing I had preeclampsia, should have done the c-section instead of pumping me full of saline fluids for two days! I am worried about why the doctors let me fill up with eleven liters of fluid when the reason I was being induce was for my FLUID RETENTION!! Any medical insight??

Okay, I am no doctor, but I have been there, done that. While I am unsure as to why they kept pumping you full of saline, I do know for a fact that one of the medications that they use to treat pre-eclampsia is also a heart medication and also a medication used to stop pre-term labor. It is called magnesium sulfate. I had it in an attempt to prevent preterm labor. They gave me a 5mg bolus (which is a large dose distributed quickly, it goes through the IV, but is on a stream instead of a pump). One of the side effects of magnesium sulfate overdose, which can be very unintentional, so you really cannot blame doctors, especially when they are trying to prevent you from delivering prematurely or trying to save your life due to pre-eclampsia, is pulmonary edema. I suffered an accidental overdose from that bolus, my body just couldn't tolerate it as well as some people. You might want to see if that was one of the meds given to you for your pre-eclampsia. I do know that they will give you a ton of fluids for pre-eclampsia (including lots and lots of saline drips) in an attempt to flush your system out. It is done to protect your liver and kidneys, two of the major organs that can suffer from pre-eclampsia; the third being the brain. As far as you having to be pumped full of saline for the time you were, I would say it is good that your doctor at least tried to induce you and get you going naturally. Most doctors jump the gun on c-sections. Trust me, I know where you are coming from, I spent from Feb 28 to March 8, 2004, hooked to the toco machine, hooked to mag sulfate, hooked to saline, all of this in an attempt to keep me from going into labor. When they administer pitocin, they administer saline as well. It is just to keep you hydrated. The doctor only gave you that c-section when he felt that natural labor was not going anywhere and that the risks of natural labor outweighed the benefits. By the way you were not induced for fluid retention, you were induced because of pre-eclampsia. Which one of the SYMPTOMS of it is fluid retention. You were induced because blood pressure that high can cause seizures in you, cut off blood and oxygen to the fetus, cause liver and kidney failure in you, so many problems.