Waking up thirsty...?

[stickman]

This has become more of an occurrence to me in recent days, probably attributable to the dry and windy weather that we've been having here in southern California. What happens is that I'll wake up in the middle of the night feeling really thirsty? I keep myself hydrated during the day. Does anyone else get this feeling for no apparent reason?

[marie pavie]

Check your room for vampire bats.

[wannabeapilot]

Check your room for vampire bats.

marie speaks wisdom

also could be diabetes

[frankvdg]

Get one of those little water fountains and place next to bed.

[Flurgorg]

I often wake up in the middle of the night thirsty. I just always make sure I have water next to me, and can get bck to sleep pretty easy. I wouldn't say it's or no apparnt reason though, it's pretty hot here and I sweat a lot.

[Pedqchovek]

Maybe you have diabetes.

[devilsrefugee]

its common to wake up thirsty. You dont drink for like 7 or 8 hours or so, and with all that breathing you are bound to be thirsty. Its completely normal imo, but if you are concerned see your GP.

[Blackops]

So you're thirsty and don't just have a dry mouth? That could be a problem.


If you have dry mouth, it could be several things. Snoring, vitamin deficiency, or simply just something you've been eating.

[AsheMan]

Do what many other people do; go to sleep with a glass of water by your bed.

[bluz74]

I'm always thirsty when I wake up but it's due to exhaustion from running through the dreams of so many ladies. :cool:

[velvetmeds]

Could be early sign of diabetes. Try changing your diet a bit and see if that helps. That happens to me on christmas and the following days because of all the sweets, thankfully the rest of the year i eat healthy and balanced. I have also stopped taking coffee with sugar, only artificial sweetener or nothing at all.

[Brain_Explodes]

I'm always thirsty when I wake up but it's due to exhaustion from running through the dreams of so many ladies. :cool:

Do you also find your sheets with certain sticky liquid?

[bluz74]

Do you also find your sheets with certain sticky liquid?

Yes but it's ok because its not my bed. Giggaty. :cool:

[RainFox]

Yes but it's ok because its not my bed. Giggaty. :cool:

Who's the lucky gentleman? :D

[Eriako]

I'm always thirsty too, but I have literally the opposite of diabetes. :\

If I keep my room at a normal to barely high humidity and keep water on my bookshelf that helps a lot. Just be sure to keep it in a lidded container so that spiders don't crawl in, because that takes a while to recover from.

[Flurgorg]

I'm always thirsty too, but I have literally the opposite of diabetes. :\

If I keep my room at a normal to barely high humidity and keep water on my bookshelf that helps a lot. Just be sure to keep it in a lidded container so that spiders don't crawl in, because that takes a while to recover from.

Who knows how many bugs I've unknowingly eaten from drinking an open cup in the dark... :eek:

[Moe45673]

It's most likely not diabetes. A symptom of diabetes is excessive thirst and not being able to drink enough to quell it. Waking up thirsty is fairly common and making someone into a hypochondriac isn't going to help. Particularly if he's over 25 and not ridiculously overweight, then the odds of it being diabetes are close to nil.

[DocZ]

Try drinking a tall glass of water before you go to bed...

And well, I can only tell you why I wake up thirsty every morning:

Mainly because of the copious amounts of alcohol I consume in the evening...

...But then that's just me.... I'm not an alcoholic, I'm a drunk; alcoholics go to meetings....

[Warseth]

This has become more of an occurrence to me in recent days, probably attributable to the dry and windy weather that we've been having here in southern California. What happens is that I'll wake up in the middle of the night feeling really thirsty? I keep myself hydrated during the day. Does anyone else get this feeling for no apparent reason?

Read up on Diabetes. You should look into that and get some blood work done. You are describing symptoms of diabetes.

Here I looked it up for you, things to consider.
* A recent salty or spicy meal
* Bleeding enough to cause a significant decrease in blood volume
* Diabetes
* Diabetes insipidus
* Drugs such as anticholinergics, demeclocycline, diuretics, phenothiazines
* Excessive loss of water and salt (possibly due to not drinking enough water, profuse sweating, diarrhea, or vomiting)
* Loss of body fluids from the bloodstream into the tissues due to:
o Conditions such as severe infections (sepsis) or burns
o Heart, liver, or kidney failure
* Psychogenic polydipsia, the result of a mental disorder

[Baron_Fel]

It's most likely not diabetes. A symptom of diabetes is excessive thirst and not being able to drink enough to quell it. Waking up thirsty is fairly common and making someone into a hypochondriac isn't going to help. Particularly if he's over 25 and not ridiculously overweight, then the odds of it being diabetes are close to nil.

yah this.

[Warseth]

It's most likely not diabetes. A symptom of diabetes is excessive thirst and not being able to drink enough to quell it. Waking up thirsty is fairly common and making someone into a hypochondriac isn't going to help. Particularly if he's over 25 and not ridiculously overweight, then the odds of it being diabetes are close to nil.

You do not assume anything. If you have symptoms , you get blood work done. The onset of diabetes is excessive thirst(which he has). Better to catch it early and dodge the bullet than assume its nothing.

[Jderz]

You do not assume anything. If you have symptoms , you get blood work done. The onset of diabetes is excessive thirst(which he has). Better to catch it early and dodge the bullet than assume its nothing.

yah this.

[A Guy]

Happens to me often too. Taking a pill to help me sleep can also cause my mouth to be dry in the morning.

[DocZ]

yeah, well, you asked Dr. SPUF, so your diagnosis is that you're likely dying...

[Liquid-Flame DK]

It could be this new Multiple-AIDS-Cancer-Sclerosis i've been hearing so much about...

[bluz74]

It could be this new Multiple-AIDS-Cancer-Sclerosis i've been hearing so much about...

I hear people with MACS do suffer a lot. :)

[tibetanpunk]

I am wearing nicotine patches at the moment to quit smoking (I almost wrote 'try', but there will be no try! Do or DIE!) and I don't bother to take them off before I sleep because I love the crazy ♥♥♥ dreams they give me.

Last night I was on a submarine and I was super thirsty, so I started to drink an ice cold 2 litre bottle of coke and then as I spoke to people, my mouth was watering so much that it was pouring all over me...

Woke up with a really dry mouth.

[Heavy Weapons]

@ OP: Far be it from me to imply that you might not have an undiagnosed, incurable and life-changing physical condition that presents itself in waking up with a desire for a drink of water. Certainly you should be aware of your body's medical needs and should regularly check with and not ignore the advice of your doctor. But allow me to point out a few things:

With every breath you take, waking or sleeping, water vapor is exhaled from your body.

You perspire as you sleep. Perspiration is mostly water.

Your body continues to digest food and process urine while you sleep. Urine is 95% water, and fecal matter can be anywhere from 10-70% water depending on your diet and other factors.

There is every possibility that your thirst is just plain, old, simple thirst. Keep a glass of water at your bedside table (or, if you are afraid of dust and other contaminants, a sports bottle full of water), and take a drink when you wake up. Then wait a bit, and see if the thirst doesn't abate.

You might also try taking a moderate drink of water (say, an 8-ounce cup) immediately before turning in for the night, and see if that doesn't help. Also, you could increase the humidity of the air where you sleep. Someone above suggested a tabletop fountain. A fish-tank with a bubbler in it. Or a rolled-up newspaper stuck in a vase of water. Some means by which air currents can gently pick up moisture other than from your face.

It's not abnormal to wake up thirsty. It's abnormal to never stop being thirsty.

[Kahrandras]

ops just thirsty

don't scare the ♥♥♥♥ out of him

[lag.exe]

I snore (mouth open most of the night)
Plus I have a fan blowing right at me head

How about you?

[lucid enigma]

I am wearing nicotine patches at the moment to quit smoking (I almost wrote 'try', but there will be no try! Do or DIE!) and I don't bother to take them off before I sleep because I love the crazy ♥♥♥ dreams they give me.

Last night I was on a submarine and I was super thirsty, so I started to drink an ice cold 2 litre bottle of coke and then as I spoke to people, my mouth was watering so much that it was pouring all over me...

Woke up with a really dry mouth.

Hello, My name's tibetanpunk and it's been 3 days since my last patch!

[Moe45673]

You do not assume anything. If you have symptoms , you get blood work done. The onset of diabetes is excessive thirst(which he has). Better to catch it early and dodge the bullet than assume its nothing.

He doesn't have excessive thirst. He claims he is thirsty at one specific point of the day. One of my ex-girlfriends has diabetes (Type 1) and her symptoms were excessive thirst. What she described was way more extreme than this dude. He probably sleeps with an open mouth.

I wake up with an extremely dry mouth due to being a mouth-breathing troglodyte and you could rub a candlewick all around my mouth when I wake up and still have it light easily.

[WestRaptor]

try a humidifer i have 1 by my bed and i use it every night keeps me from being like that in the morning specially in the winter when its cold and u have the heaters going just an idea it works for me

[Bobbysteels]

@ OP: Far be it from me to imply that you might not have an undiagnosed, incurable and life-changing physical condition that presents itself in waking up with a desire for a drink of water. Certainly you should be aware of your body's medical needs and should regularly check with and not ignore the advice of your doctor. But allow me to point out a few things:

With every breath you take, waking or sleeping, water vapor is exhaled from your body.

You perspire as you sleep. Perspiration is mostly water.

Your body continues to digest food and process urine while you sleep. Urine is 95% water, and fecal matter can be anywhere from 10-70% water depending on your diet and other factors.

There is every possibility that your thirst is just plain, old, simple thirst. Keep a glass of water at your bedside table (or, if you are afraid of dust and other contaminants, a sports bottle full of water), and take a drink when you wake up. Then wait a bit, and see if the thirst doesn't abate.

You might also try taking a moderate drink of water (say, an 8-ounce cup) immediately before turning in for the night, and see if that doesn't help. Also, you could increase the humidity of the air where you sleep. Someone above suggested a tabletop fountain. A fish-tank with a bubbler in it. Or a rolled-up newspaper stuck in a vase of water. Some means by which air currents can gently pick up moisture other than from your face.

It's not abnormal to wake up thirsty. It's abnormal to never stop being thirsty.

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[chaplain_wu]

stop masturbating.

see children, see how I made it such a loaded question, like "How many times do you smoke" to a non-smoker?? ;p

[xenton]

A symptom of both obesity and diabetes, doctor visit for both.

[DocZ]

A symptom of both obesity and diabetes, doctor visit for both.

seriously???? You need a doctor's diagnosis to know you've got obesity???? Wow, I should have gone to medical school....

[xenton]

seriously???? You need a doctor's diagnosis to know you've got obesity???? Wow, I should have gone to medical school....

-cough-
It's not hard to know you're fat.
Obesity, morbid obesity and other more specific terms are harder for average joe to know exactly.

Although, more importantly than that, if you're at risk of dying, knowing what's wrong with you doesn't help much, ergo, see a doctor.

[miX_]

Check your room for vampires.

Ficksed. :eek:

[Fatimmortal]

Must be AIDs...

[stickman]

either way I do enjoy the crave for water. I think I'm quite fit right now.

[marie pavie]

Rumors of stickman's demise have been greatly exaggerated.