Thirsty! Thirsty! Thirsty!
It was a summer day, although temperature was low. I felt myself drinking more than 4litres of water. I was in the office, inside an AC room and wonder it can’t be the heat. I go around talking to my co-workers if they feel thirsty like I do. And they tell me; well it might be heat that dehydrates me. And I am thinking to myself, why just me. Why doesn’t the heat dehydrate them? So, now worried I look at few other co-workers in my office and they don’t seem to be holding a bottle around them in the office. Panicked, I Google to find out what this could possibly be a symptom for. And how I wish Google wasn’t smart enough to reveal all answers to me. But here in Google comes a whole page about Diabetes. Of course now I am paranoid and drive to the nearby Costco to talk to the pharmacist there.
Me:
Can I get Electrolyte if you have it as off the counter one?
Pharmacist:
May I ask you why you need electrolyte for?
Me:
Well I am feeling thirsty continuously, and therefore want to have electrolyte with water to relieve the thirst
Pharmacist:
I am afraid; I can only ask you to get Gatorade if you are that bad thirsty
Me:
Well but Gatorade has lots of sugar in it (I remember Google solution to my problem). I really don’t want to have that
Pharmacist:
You know what, may be I should ask you to see a doctor. Coz sometimes, it could be diabetes that can cause such thirst (just how Google said).
On my way back home, I call to make an appointment with the doctor. I go and look at myself in the mirror. Well I don’t look really slim to believe that the weight I lost is due to diabetes. On the other hand, I do not look over-weight too to hint the amount of sugar in my body. I now think to myself, well God is not so mean to punish someone such a young age with Diabetes.
I go to the doctor appointment and give my blood sugar test. Everything comes out normal and here I am relieved that I don’t have diabetes. But till date, my water thirst hasn’t stopped. I still drink more than 4lit of water, when people around me are not even sipping the required amount of daily water intake.
Still wondering what’s wrong with me.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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