Do you drink water?

Charlie_Alumni
Charlie_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 264 Empowering
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I have been trying to up my fluid intake and I was discussing this with a friend who recalled an article claiming that "one in three people go without drinking any water at all throughout the day".

I was surprised by the stat, do people not get thirsty?

So, do you drink water? If not, what do you drink instead?

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  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,423 Championing

    We're all terrible for not drinking water in this house. So much so we bought a small whiteboard, so we could track our glasses of water throughout the day.
    We're definitely a lot more hydrated now, mainly because my sister is super competitive and now has to drink more water than me. 😆

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,855 Championing

    I only drink water. Still not as much as I should though!

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 2,617 Championing

    Drink plenty of water in tea and a bit of hma filtered water from the garden hose

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,813 Championing

    Just lime in water count

  • Jacsta
    Jacsta Online Community Member Posts: 28 Connected

    I go through phases of what I like to drink but I know overall I haven't been drinking enough.

    Im currently under tier 3 weight management and my first focus is to drink more so that 2L target a day is a thing I'm now trying to do. It's the constant needing a wee that annoys me as my kidneys adapt XD

  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 443 Trailblazing

    35 years ago the spinal injuries unit suggested I drink 3 litres a day. I usually drink more than that.

    I always have four of the cordials I like available to add some flavour.

    I've had one bladder infection in my time as a wheelchair user, I caught that in a hospital. I'm confident my fluid intake helps with that.

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,366 Championing

    I never used to drink plain water, always had some flavoured cordial in it. Now, I only drink water, apart from two coffees in the evening.

    Ironically, in the night & today, I've been very weird (more than usual) & not altogether with it, odd dizziness, stumbly, thirsty, crampy, sweating, headache, could fall asleep on a razor blade & been sick, then realised I've had heat exhaustion, even though I've upped my water levels. Thankfully only have the headache left, so will be upping my water intake again. Had to today, as all I puked up was water!! 🤣

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,366 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1049839#Comment_1049839

    It has been with the hot spells we've been enjoying, no catheter needed either. Hardly pee'd really & that's with constantly filling my water bottle.

    You've had some heat up there, so, amazed you've gone through fine, @Ranald, made off tougher stuff, eh? 😁

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,408 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1050042#Comment_1050042

    Ohh you're a proper north of Yorkshire northerner!!!

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 988 Championing

    I've had an aversion to water ever since my forestry contractor days. Drinking lovely sparkling stream water … very refreshing

    … until I went 30 yards up stream and saw the dead sheep swimming 🤑

  • Jacsta
    Jacsta Online Community Member Posts: 28 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1049689#Comment_1049689

    After a couple weeks the kidneys calm down lol

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 988 Championing

    @Ranald … been years since I've had one of them 🤩

    Tennent's Extra … I've made a couple of wrong choices after that stuff

    The only legacy my father left me was his alcoholism. I'm a strictly zero person now.

    Madri zero … that is lovely. The day they make a Newcastle Brown Ale zero I'll do roly poly's down the supermarket aisle. I won't be able to get up again but hey

    Awful thought … not doing that in case someone gives me water 😝

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,423 Championing
    edited July 2025

    That very much depends on how long the can's been left open for @Ranald but I think I'll just stick with water. 😆

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 988 Championing

    @Ranald … I remember McEwan's export and partook in a few in the 80's

    Uck at the Scotch ever since my father said he'd give me 50 pence if I drank the Bell's cap of it .. talk about conditioning your kids, I think I was 10 … but a bottle of Courvoirsier Cognac was a different story in my later days

    Back on the water (not likely) Sparkling Water. The Devil's Tonic … who wants spicy water 🤑 … would rather risk the sheep again 😏

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,029 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I don't drink enough so this has just given me the kick I need. Although, my tap water does have a funny taste sometimes so I might have to get some bottled water.

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