Water

[gray_marian]

How many folks do you know who say they don't want to drink anything before going to bed because they'll have to get up during the night!!

Heart Attack and Water - I never knew all of this ! Interesting.......

Something else I didn't know ... I asked my Doctor why do people need to urinate so much at night time. Answer from my Cardiac Doctor -
Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When you lie down and the lower body (legs and etc) seeks level with the kidneys, it is then that the kidneys remove the water because it is easier. This then ties in with the last statement!
I knew you need your minimum water to help flush the toxins out of your body, but this was news to me.
Correct time to drink water... Very Important. From A Cardiac Specialist!

Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body: 2 glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs
1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion
1 glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure
1 glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack

I can also add to this... My Physician told me that water at bed time will also help prevent night time leg cramps. Your leg muscles are seeking hydration when they cramp and wake you up.

[cappy]

that's good info

[Richard Quartermaine]

Marion, I receive a long report of this very revealing study from an old colleague in Jakarta some time ago and cannot locate it for the moment. I'll ask him to resend.

I follow the pattern and think it does wonders. I am in the dubiously fortunate situation that the used water does not cause discomfort because I have for the past five years had a supra pubic catheter inserted through my stomach wall directly into my bladder. The catheter has a flip flow tap that I point towards the porcelain when the call comes. (Embarrassingly forgetting to turn it off afterwards was a bind at first). At night I plug into a special bottle at the side of my bed and after I have had a large glass of water or two and I sleep soundly. Prior to this and with my prostate problems I would avoid drinking anything long before bedtime and even then my sleep was interrupted regularly. After a five graft coronary artery bypass eight years ago I have a general BP of 140 over 73. I swear by it.

Tony, my cardiologist advised me to take magnesium for leg cramps and it works for me.

Richard

[j.sabourn]

Richard, re. leg cramps they are excruciatently painful and hard to get to cease. However I have found since I went to the sleep clinic and was rediagnosed as stopping breathing 64 times in an hour, six years ago it was much lower than this so stopped treatment. against the doctors advice. Since I have started the machine again which keeps the airways clear and stops snoring, the leg cramps have ceased, so must assume they are due to insufficient air being pumped through the system. I don't sleep for any longer periods about 5 hours being the longest even after a night on the pop, so again must assume this is due to the hours of work over the years at sea. In a recent post about a certain master Cappy mentioned, and me getting glasses of whiskey in the early hours of the morning, I assume there must have been many more like him, and myself now, who suffered from this complaint of sleep abpnia. The man in question being in his 60"s at the time. Another occupational hazard I suppose. Cheers John Sabourn ps Cappy is going to make some inference to blow up dolls if he already hasn't JS

[John Gill]

My late father suffered a heart attack in Vittoria, Brazil aged 65. He was bosun aboard Sydney Bridge and was admitted to hospital there. While being treated and stabilised, he mentioned that he suffered bad leg cramps. The cardiologist gave him an injection (one) and for the rest of his life (he died aged 80) never suffered again. He never discovered what the medication was, but I could do with some myself ocassionaly.

[John Gill]

Richard, . Cheers John Sabourn ps Cappy is going to make some inference to blow up dolls if he already hasn't JS

By the time I've finished inflating my blow-up doll, there's not much energy left for much else.

[cappy]

im blowing nothing

[Richard Quartermaine]

#5
John, ten years or so ago I also went to a sleep clinic and ended up with a CPap machine with humidifier. It certainly gave me some respite. I have been on blood pressure medication and had a minor heart attack in March 2008 and was hospitalized and had my quintuple graft bypass. Over the operation period I lost 20 kgs and my sleep apnea. I've since replaced 10 kgs and am getting a regrowth for the third time of nasal polyps that I had out in Singapore in a dentist's chair in 1985 by an Indian doctor whealding something like nail clippers and the second time more humanely here in the Mountains about fifteen years ago. My breathing indicates they may be coming back so I've got to check that out and lose a bit of weight too.

Most importantly to me is I ceased to be continually wanting to pee because so little was draining out and each morning as I "unhook" I see beside my bed up to a couple of litres of used water waiting to be tipped out at my leisure.

I have only started the magnesium a little over a month ago because of increasing pain in my legs which I had solely blamed on arthritis, to find the pain disappear in my legs.

Cheers, Richard

[alf corbyn]

i have been told to drink two pints of water when i get up and i then have a cup of tea. drink ribena a couple of times during the day and before bed. i keep a bottle by the bed just in case. i thought i was hard done by until i read these posts.

[Louis the fly]

This is very interesting. A question. I have always drank large amounts of black coffee. Four or five in the morning before getting dressed for the day.
When I go to bed I take a glass of pure orange juice with me. Does this count as water, or must it be water on its own?