Trouble Drinking Water

How are you with the bottled type? There are chemicals in tap water which may not be agreeing.

In any case it won't matter if you are getting water through other beverages made with it, like your iced coffees.

But yes, just as I don't always recognise I am hungry, I don't always recognise I am thirsty either...well until bed time. I take a pint of mint squash to bed with me and drink everytime my old lady hot flushes wake me up.

This is the opposite of what you asked but I have trouble with obsessively drinking too much water and it can make me really ill, flushing out too much of my minerals.  I also have to have a bottle lf water with me wherever i go otherwise i get stressed, even if i don't take a sip from it.  i hate feeling thirsty!

I felt light-headed, when in Manchester a fortnight ago, but the ECG I got, this Monday, was all good. It was just lack of water drunk when away.

it’s completely not on my radar, like many things. if i’m not starving or headachy (from dehydration) i won’t even consider it because i don’t enjoy either of them and i only do it if i have to kind of thing. it makes me sound bratty but it’s not conscious and is probably heightened by my lack of interest in food, due to the sensory nightmare it ensues and my general dislike for plain water that tastes *right*

Hi Martin, I really enjoyed reading your scientific take on why it might be more difficult to drink certain fluids. :) but then of course I'm a scientist too :) 

As you raised the topic, I thought that you might be open to some considered opinion as to why you have difficulty drinking water. I was wrong, I apologise. In future you might put a disclaimer on any points you raise, saying you only require platitudes and expressions of fellow feeling. 

Yes, I'm being sarcastic, one of many abilities that I am not supposed to possess.

Well i'm not here for a ******* science class. TH you mean recipe it was just an opinion.

I was dissecting the physics of how liquids feel in the mouth, not writing recipes. As water does not have much of a taste, it really has to be a physical property of water that you find problematic. Not all liquids behave the same. Olive oil is a liquid, but, ignoring the taste, it has physical properties that make it different to water. You could drink olive oil, but it would never quench thirst, because its 'wetting' properties and viscosity are different to water. I, like many people, find cold tea quite repellent, but I like hot tea. Obviously the two taste the same, they have the same ingredients, the difference is in the temperature, which affects the mouth-feel. Therefore, mouth feel, independent of taste, can have a large effect on whether something is palatable or not.

That's from the series Archer, i need to watch that show.

If you were to add milk to water you'd have to have coffee in it at least otherwise it tastes awful.

But it's not really about not liking to drink water, i actually wish i could drink more of it without all the extras like coffee/oat milk. It's a feeling problem like sickness.

That's a good idea with hot tea. For me i prefer homemade iced decaf coffee with caramel or gingerbread syrup (sugar free of course) 

If it keeps you hydrated then that's great! 

Oh weird, for me the more dehydrated i get the more i want to be able to drink but can't and remembering is another problem. 

Hot weather is our enemy  

but seriously, have you tried any flavourings? or is it just remembering? if so then do you not have anyone to tell you to drink? 

I can't drink tap either cause i can taste the chemicals that they use to clean the pipes and it's quite bitter. I do drink bottled water and i have tried flavoured but the problem came back  :,)

But i find that fruit shoot (no added sugar) is the only thing i can drink a lot of, so i'm going to try their water version.

Yeah when i make a water it ends up still being quite full a few hours later even tho i'm thirsty or like you said it doesn't register at all. I also find that ice helps which is what i'm starting to use, right now i'm drinking fruit shoot (no added sugar)  which is easy for me to drink.

It is probably to do with viscosity and surface adhesion properties of liquids. Adding other things to water, such as milk, oat milk, sugar etc. will change these properties and change the 'mouth feel'.  It doesn't matter that you do not like drinking water as anything with a high water content will work to hydrate you. Even low alcohol drinks will do the same. Back in the day, when water was not safe to drink, due to disease organisms and chemical contamination, people drank beer - even at breakfast ('small beer' very low in alcohol).

Yes! I struggle to drink enough anyway and plain water just makes me feel sick.

I mostly drink tea (including decaf and fruit teas), juice, and squash, with the occasional fizzy drink or flavoured water. Tea does seem to help me with staying hydrated because it tastes/feels horrendous when it's cold and that gives me the motivation to drink it all while it's hot. Otherwise I really struggle to drink enough because I don't always realise I'm thirsty.

yes. i struggle too... and weirdly the more dehydrated I get the less I want to drink.... 

Yes. Big problem for me. 

I never feel thirsty and never remember to drink. It's put me in hospital a couple of times now, almost always during the warm weather. 

A quote I heard once; "I never drink water, fish f**k in it!"