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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snapsy" data-source="post: 1426814" data-attributes="member: 265172">10-12 litres a day sounds excessive, [USER=130481]@Mikey1209[/USER] !  I understand that feeling the need to be drinking in excess of 5 litres a day is enough to warrant investigation, so with all due respect to him or her I think perhaps the doctor might have been having a mad 5 minutes!I'm currently under investigation for diabetes insipidus (or 'water diabetes'), with a water deprivation test scheduled for the end of next month.  I drink and pass a huge amount of fluid, peaking at 10 litres in and 13 litres out in one 24-hour period in September - now measuring all that was inconvenient, as they had only supplied me with 2 x 5 litre collection bottles!  Things have calmed down a bit since then, thankfully, with consumption and output currently both being around the 6-8 litre mark.  To be honest I think I just like drinking (i.e. I feel it's more likely to be a psychological thing, rather than an endocrine thing), but as they've offered to check me out I'm taking them up on it.Being told to drink 10-12 litres a day would scare me!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite67" alt=":wacky:" title="Wacky    :wacky:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":wacky:" /></blockquote>

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