Edema is usually associated with poor adrenal function as is excessive water retention (adrenals should be checked as well as digestion and anemia). Boy..... this ALL sounds like a lymie!!! The adrenals are located above the kidneys and can be 'fed' with various suggestions. You should be consuming half your body weight in ounces of water. If you are 120lbs, that would be 60 ounces of water per day; reverse osmosis is preferably, then filtered, never distilled. Distilled has nothing in it and creates a vacuum in the body; actually will pull minerals out of the body. I have also found it a common factor with my lymie clients that they are usually low in potassium, magnesium and especially calcium. Calcium is the #1 mineral our body needs and just about EVERYBODY is deficient. Did you know that there are over 255,000 kinds of calcium??? Check your supplement and see what source it is taken from. Did you know that products like "OsCal" are made from oyster shells and that the human body cannot assimilate oyster shells??(we are not designed to digest them!!). Calcium carbonate is the next highly used calcium and it is basically limestone or CHALK!!! Are we meant to eat chalk?? Why do these companies 'get away' with such nonsense?? $$$$ and that is all. They are extremely cheap to produce and are then mass marketed. PLEASE look for calcium oxide (closest to human bone) and then calcium citrate as well as calcium lactate. The more educated one becomes with WHAT IS GOING ON, the better health you will experience. Take responsibility for YOUR health, NO DR. or anyone else will. When it comes to lyme, it is not the pathogens (lyme, babesia, ehrlichia, bartonella, mycoplasma, HHV-6, EBV, nanobacteria, etc--- I had them all!) that are the problems, it is the weakness in our bodies. When the immune system is strong, the vitamins and minerals are in abundance, then we can gain great health. I have recovered from being paralyzed from the neck down due to lyme and am 98% better. So has my husband and 5 of my 6 children.