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Sunday, 1st October 2006: Polyuria

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Drink like a fish!

I think the term they are using is polyuric, I'm passing more that I am drinking and no matter how hard I try and gettting dehydrated. Ponders! Do I increase my daily fluid intake to 5 litres a day, or have an intravenous drip feeding me saline or something?
I'll be good!
Glug, glug, glug…
Water, can't stand the stuff. Blah.

Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of men out there (and women too nowadays) that don't have a problem sinking the equivalent of a dozen pints of beer a day and going back for last orders, but really. Having to drink that much - when you have problems getting rid of it (ahem) - when you aren't even that thirsty and are sick to death of jugs of water.

I am getting getting sick to death of the taste of tap water!