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Re: [Birth Control] health issue

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From: Lynn D. Montgomery, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:44:56 -0600 (CST)

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At Wed, 27 Feb 2002, cb wrote: >
>I could not find another md forum that might closer match my issue.
>Thank you in advance for any insight.
>
>I'm 29, healthy, exercise regularly, and been on various OCP's for 11
>years. I drink about a gallon of water a day and have to otherwise I
>start having dizzy spells to the point where my hearing starts to buzz
>out. I've been dehydrated before (usually a couple times every summer),
>and it feels the same. I eat regularly, so I know it's not a lack of
>food (5'6", 140 lbs). My parents are not healthy people. They have
>always been very heavy to the point where my mother had cellulitis. I
>was also very heavy growing up (maxed out at 230lbs). But when I became
>an adult, changed my lifestyle, and lost the weight slowly. Three years
>ago I was down to 125lbs and my body did not like that (lost my
>gallbladder). Do you have any insight on my need for so much water
>every day. My doctor has gives me my annual physicals and finds nothing
>wrong but has also done no further checking for anything else. If I
>know where to start as far as checking for certain problems it would
>help me. My doctor tells me that it's great that I drink so much water,
>but I don't feel it should be such a requirement. Thank ou again if you
>can help me obtain any insight.

I presume that when you drink this much fluid, you also pee quite a lot as well. I would suggest starting with a specialist in Internal Medicine. You may end up with a sub-specialist in Nephrology, but you have to start somewhere. There should not be a NEED to drink this much water. As your physician has stated, drinking plenty of water is good for you, but this much as a requirement is excessive... Lynn

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Lynn D. Montgomery, MD
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center
Missoula, Montana

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