The importance of water
I learned my lesson abou****er the hard way. Luckily I caught myself before I got too dehydrated though.
I went away this past weekend for a scrapbooking retreat -- we were way up north in Michigan in the boonies. The water tasted horrible and I didn't have any bottled water with me. So I didn't drink much at all. I might have gotten about 20 ounces a day for 3 days straight. Of course I didn't really realize it was so little while I was misbehaving, but looking back I was shocked I'd been so bad.
So Sunday morning before I was about to leave for home I woke up with a horrible headache, felt weak and blah. I ate some breakfast and felt even worse and had to lay down to take a little nap. On my drive home I came to the realization that I had been dehydrating myself. Idiot! Bad Pam!
So I've been pushing fluids for the past couple days and I can't seem to get enough. I still have the headache and still feeling sluggish, but I can feel some improvement as I drink more.
So learn from my mistake. Drink your water even if you have to work harder at it than normal. You really don't want to experience the type of headache that doesn't go away with any drug and feeling sluggish and weak is not a fun feeling either. Don't be stupid like me.
Drink your water! It's really important.
Pam
I'm glad you were able to make up the lack of fluids just by drinking. It didn't work out that way for me. I had my surgery and three days after I came home I was back in the ER getting almost 3 liters of IV fluids. I was drinking, and technically I was consuming fluids in the range set for me by my doctor. It seems I just require more fluids. I drink anywhere from 80-100 ounces of fluids a day now, instead of just the 64 ounces my doctor recommended in the beginning. I have a 32 ounce Nalgene bottle and I carry it everywhere with me. BTW, I never got any of the symptoms you had; I was just very dizzy and lightheaded.
Shirley in NH
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