WATER 101 --'Obsessively gung ho!', where are you???

[way]

WATER 101

When I first started TX I read this forum and it was (and is)my main source of information 24/7.

You ALL "drilled" into my head the IMPORTANCE and NECESSITY of water consumption during TX. Correct me if I'm wrong but the subject came up in every other thread, or maybe it just seemed like it...

This information has helped me more than any one thing and I believe it is responsible for my lack of sx.

It has been kinda hard for me to keep up(reading this forum entirely) with soooo many threads per day and so very long,(some of them). Its hard for me to be positive about this but I don't think the newbies are being told the importance of drinking LOTS of water. It hasn't been mentioned at all lately, Has it?? Some of the new tx'ers are really having a hard time of it from the very begining. (like Mishelli)I believe that water drinking was given as a remedy for sx.

I know some of you from from time to time post the meanings of the acronyms we use, for the newbies. I think we need to keep mentioning the importance of drinking lots of WATER--I mean let's get REALLY GUNG HO!!!!!!

[merlino]

Hi, I will be starting tx in fall. I too hate water. I have been drinking weak ice tea with no sugar just some lemon and if I add fresh lemon to ice water I can get that down. Not as much as the tea. It is hard drinking so much, I hope to get used to it by the time I tx.

[cuteus]

i kept it at 6 to 8 glasses of 8oz daily, more made me sick. listen to your body. not everybody needs the same amount.

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/NU/00283.html

[FlGuy]

Watch out if the tea is caffenated. Sometimes sleep is hard enough to come by while you are on tx.  Tea, if caffenated, can comptete with your need to rest.

[GrandOak]

I drink between a gallon to a gallon and a half a day.  The Walgreens Specialty pharmacy, who assist with my medications questions/issues, recommended you take your weight in pounds and divide by 2 to get the total number of fluid ounces you should drink a day.

Also, like coffee, ice tea contains caffeine which is a diuretic and can result in dehydration.  I can't recall but it's either the peg-IFN or RBN which also is a diuretic and a large part of the reason for the increased water consumption and need to avoid coffee and tea.

[sunspot]

At one time during tx, I had a bad case of brain fog (once?) and let my water intake fall to about half of  the recommended quantity. After one week I was having some back pains and on the next day, as I was absently rubbing my back, I realized it was my kidneys that were hurting, not my back. I immediately upped my daily water and by the next day the pain went away.
That scared the **** out of me and I never forgot again. That

[merlino]

I didn't even think about decaff!! I drink tea all during the day - sometimes w/lunch I'll have a diet ice tea-once I am home I do all water-occasioanlly some juice or green tea. It drives me insane getting up so much during the night. Hope that gets better.