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8 to 16 litres a day?
How? And why?
I'm a diabetic and got into a habit of drinking a lot before I was diagnosed. Then I got put on a medication that works by shunting sugar into my urine, which increases my frequency of urination and therefore my thirst. I also have hyperhydrosis, which makes me sweat way more than normal, so I need to replace the liquids more than normal, and the medication I'm on for it has a side effect of further increasing how much I drink.
All combined, I drink way more than normal people. A strange side effect is that, since I produce so much more urine than a normal person, my bladder has stretched to much larger than normal. Most people have a maximum capacity of 1000mL in their bladder, i have closer to 2000mL.
Well, this emphasizes even more that you are a special case and you should not generalise that drinking that much soda is ok.
But why soda? Even more if you are under a medication that diverts sugars directly to urine, being a diabetic. Can I risk it is out of habit or for the taste?
Wouldn't reducing the sugar intake cut the need for that medication, by simply drinking plain water, and have a mineral supplement to cover the eventual excessive loss due to higher urination/sudation?
I only drink diet soda, so it's not impacting my sugar. I've tried drinking water, but I need some kind of flavor, and seltzer just tastes hitter and gross to me.
Let me just add artificial sweetners can provoke bloating to some individuals; I'm one of those.
I can relate with feeling an electrolyte drop when drinking too much water in one go; it's as if water starts to taste, for lack of a better word, wrong, regardless how thirsty one feels.
If it is not causing you any adverse effect, good.