Given how you were talking about pains, it seems to be a noticeable issue for you
Yes—it happens a few times a week, depending on circumstances.
Your advice would totally make sense if the baseline issue were that I’m not consuming enough water. But on a baseline day I consume between 1 and 1.5 gallons of water alone, not counting any water in the food I eat, or any other beverages such as almond milk. (I don’t consume sodas, fruit juice, coffee, tea, alcohol, or really anything else.)
The problem is that sometimes, that 1-1.5 gallons isn’t enough, and there are occasionally days where it’s been not enough for a few days in a row, such that I end up running “a few quarts low”. (I actually use my scale as another clue: if I’ve lost a pound or two from one day to the next, and my fat % is higher, then I know I’m dehydrating. But an hour or so difference in time spent sleeping can do the same thing to my weight, so it’s not a very precise measurement.)
I don’t know, sip 50ml every half an hour or something?
What makes you think I’m not doing that now? As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, my rate of water need is not constant. If I have a couple of days in a row where I underestimate how much I need to raise my intake to compensate for losses like having more conversations or physical exertion than usual (or the air conditioner running more to maintain the temperature inside!), then I will fall behind and experience dehydration symptoms. But if I try to consume more water as a matter of course, then that also disrupts my digestion, makes me feel cold, keeps me running to the bathroom, and so forth.
So, if you don’t have some method for actually changing my body’s regulation of water, I’m not interested. AFAICT I’m already doing everything that is doable with respect to changing my behavior around water consumption, given the lack of any reliable means for determining my precise water need, in a situation where both under- and over-consumption create health problems.
I’m going to tap out of this discussion now, as my original post was not a request for advice; it was an expression of curiosity about someone saying they experienced headache relief from both placebos and painkillers, making me wonder if it was water-related (since I have some experience of that).
But on a baseline day I consume between 1 and 1.5 gallons of water alone, not counting any water in the food I eat, or any other beverages such as almond milk.
That’s an absurd amount of water (not from food) to be consuming every day.
Yes—it happens a few times a week, depending on circumstances.
Your advice would totally make sense if the baseline issue were that I’m not consuming enough water. But on a baseline day I consume between 1 and 1.5 gallons of water alone, not counting any water in the food I eat, or any other beverages such as almond milk. (I don’t consume sodas, fruit juice, coffee, tea, alcohol, or really anything else.)
The problem is that sometimes, that 1-1.5 gallons isn’t enough, and there are occasionally days where it’s been not enough for a few days in a row, such that I end up running “a few quarts low”. (I actually use my scale as another clue: if I’ve lost a pound or two from one day to the next, and my fat % is higher, then I know I’m dehydrating. But an hour or so difference in time spent sleeping can do the same thing to my weight, so it’s not a very precise measurement.)
What makes you think I’m not doing that now? As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, my rate of water need is not constant. If I have a couple of days in a row where I underestimate how much I need to raise my intake to compensate for losses like having more conversations or physical exertion than usual (or the air conditioner running more to maintain the temperature inside!), then I will fall behind and experience dehydration symptoms. But if I try to consume more water as a matter of course, then that also disrupts my digestion, makes me feel cold, keeps me running to the bathroom, and so forth.
So, if you don’t have some method for actually changing my body’s regulation of water, I’m not interested. AFAICT I’m already doing everything that is doable with respect to changing my behavior around water consumption, given the lack of any reliable means for determining my precise water need, in a situation where both under- and over-consumption create health problems.
I’m going to tap out of this discussion now, as my original post was not a request for advice; it was an expression of curiosity about someone saying they experienced headache relief from both placebos and painkillers, making me wonder if it was water-related (since I have some experience of that).
That’s an absurd amount of water (not from food) to be consuming every day.
Sorry. LW is populated by people with… different capabilities to manage their problems and it wasn’t obvious to which category you belonged.