
Originally Posted by
Bonaparte
Agreed.
However, estrogenic water retention is different from any form of edema. Have you ever touched someone with serious edema? Because it is a completely different level of water retention, and does not share the same cause (as edema is usually caused by CHF, and never high estrogen).
While edema is usually "pitting" (where the water is almost free-floating under the skin and will leave indentations when pressed on, like memory foam), estrogen bloat basically just swells existing adipose tissue (in my experience, anyway).