Drinking Lots of isontic Drinks is it okay ?

[fendertele]

Basically i have been on here before..... and i have a Pit tumor and my body isn't making enough cortisol on its own so take hydro cortisone.... the tumor is shrinking but for some reason my body still isn't able to make it's own cortisol and they don't understand why.

Anyways i have been having trouble pre treatment and with treatment losing weight.... no matter how much i exercise or watch what i eat... i couldn't shift it.. i ate all the right micro nutrients and drank a litre of water a day... but was always bloated looking and when i exercised had poor recovery and erectile dysfunction to the point i couldn't get an erection if i was working out 5 days a week.

Someone on this site helped me by pointing out that if im adrenal insufficient and on hydro cortisone that i might be salt wasting... something my Endo hadn't pointed out... so after some research i figured if this is the case then i have been flooding my body with water... a litre a day!! and not putting back in the salt i'm losing working out.

So i switched to Sports drinks and boom!! weight coming off, feel superb, erections back strong as ever!!

But i am drink 5-6 of these drinks a day, avoiding water completely as these have 80% water and the other stuff my body needs.... but its sugar and salt .... could this be bad in the long run even if it is making me feel great just now ?

[rumpled]

Some of my BLA buds do make their own.

I just do tomato juice.

Yes, I do lose hair more at times - and I never pluck my eyebrows (years!).

K (potassium) and Na (sodium) are the symbols on the periodic table of elements. Chemistry! Sorry.

[fendertele]

Sorry but what is NA and K is that medical words for Sodium and Potassium ?

[fendertele]

Rumpled could i get diabetes from drinking this many daily ? or would i be better making my own drink ?

I have ordered a 1 litre water jug, some himilayan salt...i imagine it's fill with water add x amount of salt.... x amount of sugar and some fruit for flavouring ?

Also off topic have you ever noticed hair loss on scalp and eyebrows ?

I have thinning hair on scalp for the last few years, my eyebrows thin towards the outer half like when they are wet you can see right through the outsides and when its dry i need to part them to hide the thinning.... and my beard has patches of hair missing.

[rumpled]

Some people  - most people with AI - when they are low lose Na and spike K. Thus they are told to avoid K. But some of us, including me, lose both. So I go for tomato juice and things to bring my K and Na back up.

So yes you can wash out your K and Na drinking too much - so the sport drinks help. The sugar is nice for energy but watch it, too much and your glucose can spike too.

[fendertele]

Also i am confused if i am AI then surely i should be avoiding the energy drinks as they are high potassium which is what anyone with AI shoudl avoid ?
yet i feel amazing.