Hardly ever drink? Dehydration symptoms

[BabyUxX]

Hi all. I'm just wondering if I'm the only one, I barely drink apart from tea and coffees throughout the day. I think I started to feel symptoms from dehydration, I keep having heart flutters / palpitations and sometimes headaches. I keep thinking I need to remember to drink but I'm just never really thirsty? Is anyone else the same? I'm 27 x

You won't be thirsty because your body becomes used to not having enough water.

I was able to start drinking more when I took a 1.5l bottle of still water to work every day with the aim of finishing it. At first I was at the toilet all the time but after a while my body was used to the extra water. I am not as good any more but still very conscious of water intake.

I will say that when drinking that level of water I was the healthiest, slimmest and fittest I've ever been.

Start with a big glass of water when you wake up.

The palpitations are from the caffeine I think. It's not clear that you're dehydrated. Tea can also hydrate you.

I barely drink except teas and coffee and I'm fine, very well hydrated. But it's just one coffee, and only decaf tea later in the afternoon. Perhaps you're overdoing the caffeine rather than necessarily underdoing the fluids?

(Of course a lot of our required fluid intake comes from food - fruit and veg typically have a lot)

The flutters can be coffeecand tea, how many do you have a day?how much do you drink in total, any hidden intake like fruit, yoghourts.

That doesn't sound like dehydration, just too much caffeine. Try swapping some decaff tea or coffee in throughout the day or making yourself drink a small glass of water before or after each meal.

If you drink a lot of tea and coffee then you are still hydrated. While caffeine is slightly diuretic, not to the point that you lose all the cup you have just drunk. Plus we get water from food as well.

However palpitations probably means too much caffeine.

Me! I never drink water and I'm a total tea belly.

It's such a bad habit and I really need to get out of it.

I gave up caffeinated drinks when I was about your age. I got the most horrendous headache for the first couple of days, caffeine withdrawal, but I feel so much better for it. No more palpitations.

The thing that had really scared me was when I had to go without tea fir a couple of days and thought I was having a strike...caffeine withdrawal headache...

I drink decaffeinated tea now and water.

I'm sure there was a study a year or so ago saying drinking water like the tik-tokkers were was bad for you and the upshot was everyone has different amounts they need depending on genetics, diet, energy spent doing what in the day for example. I rarely drink water as I don't like the taste.
Have you had your bloods done as I know when I was anemic I had bad palpitations? That is far more likely that dehydration I would say.

Yea and coffee and very diuretic and cause dehydration I believe.

I have stopped drinking tea and now if I do have it it makes me quite ill.