There might be a connection </sarcasm>
Aug. 30th, 2013 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelThis morning, I woke up feeling actually *awake* -- usually, lately, regardless of how much time I spend asleep or trying to sleep, I am groggy and cranky and have trouble waking up.
Yesterday? I actually probably had enough water during the day.
There's also a thing the last few months where I've been needing to pee relatively scarcely. Like, I will get up, have my usual coffee and then the gigantic-ass cup of tea that I work through during the day, and seven hours later go "oh I probably ought to go to the bathroom".
(Not reliably, of course. If I *need* to go four hours without peeing, because of lack of facilities or whatever, it doesn't work.)
Now, the thing is, going to the bathroom is a freaking pain. Even if I am a) where the facilities are usable by me (true at home, true at two other places I know of in town, not true of a vast majority of places even if they have restrooms generally available) and b) with an aide that can help me, it's exhausting and uncomfortable and awkward and painful and I hatessss it, preciousssss. Plus, it's really hard to find competent aides that are willing to come over just to help with bathrooming and nothing else, and already my aide presence is socially stressful for me.
But I thought I'd struck a balance between "drinking enough to keep me from dehydration" and "not needing to pee too often".
Except, er, what I was thinking of as "dehydration" -- thirst, headache, etc -- is sort of more moderate dehydration.
Out of curiosity, I trawled around the internet looking for symptoms of dehydration, and they can include insomnia (check), unreasonable tiredness (check), irritability (check), lower/crappier moods (check), problems concentrating (check), yadda.
...oh.
Hm.
(Also, my brain tends to equate *having* something with *using* it -- so getting someone to fill my water glass so that I have water available to drink, tickies the mental "acquire water" checkbox regardless of whether or not I even drink it. Kind of like cats with food. So I tend to think I've been drinking more fluids than I actually have.)
Yesterday? I actually probably had enough water during the day.
There's also a thing the last few months where I've been needing to pee relatively scarcely. Like, I will get up, have my usual coffee and then the gigantic-ass cup of tea that I work through during the day, and seven hours later go "oh I probably ought to go to the bathroom".
(Not reliably, of course. If I *need* to go four hours without peeing, because of lack of facilities or whatever, it doesn't work.)
Now, the thing is, going to the bathroom is a freaking pain. Even if I am a) where the facilities are usable by me (true at home, true at two other places I know of in town, not true of a vast majority of places even if they have restrooms generally available) and b) with an aide that can help me, it's exhausting and uncomfortable and awkward and painful and I hatessss it, preciousssss. Plus, it's really hard to find competent aides that are willing to come over just to help with bathrooming and nothing else, and already my aide presence is socially stressful for me.
But I thought I'd struck a balance between "drinking enough to keep me from dehydration" and "not needing to pee too often".
Except, er, what I was thinking of as "dehydration" -- thirst, headache, etc -- is sort of more moderate dehydration.
Out of curiosity, I trawled around the internet looking for symptoms of dehydration, and they can include insomnia (check), unreasonable tiredness (check), irritability (check), lower/crappier moods (check), problems concentrating (check), yadda.
...oh.
Hm.
(Also, my brain tends to equate *having* something with *using* it -- so getting someone to fill my water glass so that I have water available to drink, tickies the mental "acquire water" checkbox regardless of whether or not I even drink it. Kind of like cats with food. So I tend to think I've been drinking more fluids than I actually have.)
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