Thank you for posting this important story.
HAPE just happens. Not always predictable who or when or why.
The MD comment about Diamox causing HAPE? It is a very, very mild diuretic and any degree of mild dehydration (that could be a factor in AMS, HAPE, HACE) would be mild and easily corrected with intake. And.... you may have dehydration from other non-Diamox factors like workload, sweating, fever, distribution of tissue fluid into places like the pleural space of the lung that you mentioned, etc, etc.
The MD comment that HAPE can get worse before it gets better is spot on. He has seen it before.
Last edited by Harvey Lankford; 08/31/11 09:14 AM.
