Why is drinking more water making me thirsty?

[Rob_B]

I've recently decided to drink more water, simple change but a good one!

Thing is though it seems to have made me thirstier than ever, I drink a good 1>1.5L during the day, then probably another 0.5>1L at night, I'm waking up really thirsty though, if I don't drink as much at night I wake up not thirsty, I'm confused!

Any ideas why?

[matty-hodgson]

I'd be interested to know why that is too. I wake up with a mouth dryer than Gandhi's flip-flop if I drink a lot of water before bed..

I'd hazard a guess at: An evolutionary thing to get you to drink more with the, obviously, readily available water.

[shadowmaster]

Do you sleep with your mouth open?

[Rob_B]

Do you sleep with your mouth open?

Not that I'm aware

But it's only dry if I drink lots before bed whereas an open mouth would be dry whatever I did/didn't drink.

[Disturbedguy]

I only really drink water, no fizzy crap, no juices..but I dont feel any more or less thirsty then when I did drink the crap...

[aidanjt]

Lack of sugar/gum in the water, so the water washes away the natural lubricants in your mouth and throat without leaving any behind. It's even worse when you're a smoker, in my experience.

[cookie365]

Not feeling thirsty is actually a symptom of dehydration.

Don't wait until you feel thirsty before having a drink of water - take a bottle and have loads of small sips, rather than a few big swigs.

[fuddam]

1) are you doing a lot of exercise?

2) how is your salt intake?

[Rob_B]

1) are you doing a lot of exercise?

2) how is your salt intake?

1) Nope, no more/less than normal.

2) No different to normal, eating a little less 'crap' (not that my diet is bad anyway) but no other changes.

The only thing I've really done is started drinking more water, weird

[Iron Sights]

its probabily all the oestrogen in the water

[baius]

Not feeling thirsty is actually a symptom of dehydration.

Think cookie365 is right.

On a lighter note, Wikipedia "says":

• "For severe cases of dehydration where fainting, unconsciousness, or other severely inhibiting symptom is present (the patient is incapable of standing or thinking clearly), emergency attention is required. Fluids containing a proper balance of replacement electrolytes are given orally or intravenously with continuing assessment of electrolyte status; complete resolution is the norm in all but the most extreme cases."

[HSK]

I think you should only drink as much water as you need, eg. when you're thirsty.

I don't think it's actually been scientifically proven or fact that loads of water does you the world of good. I might be wrong though...

I feel it's a spin bottled water sellers do to get people buying after watching misleading crappy adds.

[Biscuit]

global warming?

[TAKTAK]

Second coming of Jesus?

[jadamso]

Er. Are you sure you don't have diabetes?

[Rob_B]

yep