# Is it just me? (water weirdness) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144 "2009-02-09T23:10:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/1 "2009-02-09T23:10:30Z")
I cannot drink water on an empty stomach. It makes me feel nauseous, like when you drink warm water. I can drink juice, coco, milk, no problem, but I cannot drink water when I’m really hungry. No one else in my family has this problem. Am I just weird, or do other people have this, too? ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/2 "2009-02-10T00:01:06Z")
I know what you are talking about…I don’t know if I would say it is a nauseous feeling, just a “I’m hungry and this water isn’t really doing the trick” sort of feeling. But yea, I can’t drink water on an empty stomach. ---
**Author:** ![in\_hiding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@in\_hiding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/in_hiding)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/3 "2009-02-10T01:04:51Z")
I can drink coffee, milk, coke, beer, all’s just fine on an empty stomach (okay, the beer will get me wasted in no time, but…😉 ). Water is fine, usually, unless it’s too much. A cup of black tea makes me nauseous within a minute. I guess everyone has some individual quirks there. ---
**Author:** ![CAT\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@CAT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAT_1)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/4 "2009-02-10T01:12:55Z")
What bothers me about water on an empty stomach is that I can feel and hear it sloshing around in there. It doesn’t happen so much with other liquids. ---
**Author:** ![Gwyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/858c86/32.png) [@Gwyen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gwyen)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/5 "2009-02-10T02:36:07Z")
Me either! I can’t drink water first thing in the morning either, maybe because of the empty stomach thing. I also can’t drink any water that doesn’t come from the kitchen tap, and if the tap is dirty I won’t drink from it. I guess I am even freakier than you 😛 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/6 "2009-02-10T02:44:09Z")
> [@Mudshark](#): > > I know what you are talking about…I don’t know if I would say it is a nauseous feeling, just a “I’m hungry and this water isn’t really doing the trick” sort of feeling. But yea, I can’t drink water on an empty stomach. > [@Ron White](#): > > My mother-in-law told me, ‘drink lots of water, you’ll feel less hungry,’ so I drank lots of water. You know what I felt? Less thirsty. Just as I suspected. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/7 "2009-02-10T05:29:36Z")
I noticed this myself just a week or so ago! I still do it, because the nausea passes quickly and I hate feeling thirsty. Soon I’ll be able to test whether it is just tap water, or whether filtered water has the same effect. ETA: I’ve heard that water-makes-you-less-hungry thing before too. Actually the wording was something like ‘when you are dehydrated, it is common to mistake thirst for hunger’. Yeah, I always get those two mixed up :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Breccia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Breccia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breccia)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/8 "2009-02-10T05:56:22Z")
I have the same feeling when drinking water on a stomach that’s been empty for many hours…always thought it had to due with what was in the stomach (prior to any water), i.e. the stomach acids. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/9 "2009-02-10T13:22:54Z")
I can’t drink cold water on an empty stomach; it either gives me a stomach ache or makes me nauseous/uncomfortable. Room-temperature water is a lot easier, but who wants to drink room temp water? I always keep club soda in the fridge, however, which is much nicer to me. Perhaps it’s something about the sodium bicarbonate, but I can drink my fill of cold club soda without ill effects. And as for being hungry…sometimes if I’m really hungry I can’t eat or drink anything at all, because I feel sick. And it’s not like I don’t eat regularly or well. (I’m not starving myself.) But if I wake up in the morning and I’m starving, half the time I don’t eat right away because I’m so hungry I’m not hungry at all. If that makes any sense. I guess I’m just as weird–if not more weird–than the OP! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/10 "2009-02-10T13:23:59Z")
Isn’t it funny? I dislike drinking warm water, but I can’t drink my tea or coffee piping hot. I have to wait for them to cool down to the temperature of … oh, I don’t know … warm water? ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/11 "2009-02-10T15:51:04Z")
That’s weird to me. I drink a LOT of water, and often on an empty stomach. I sorta like the feeling of cool (not cold) water running down my throat, and cooling my stomach down. I like the feeling of it sloshing around in there. Also, FWIW, I like all liquids at room temp or just a bit cooler / hotter. I don’t get people who drink ice water, or who microwave their already-hot coffee… Joe ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-water-weirdness/485144/12 "2009-02-10T15:57:19Z")
I got used to drinking lukewarm water while in Cairo, but I’ve since gone back to preferring it cold. It just tastes better to me, I don’t know why.