# I've begun drinking water

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-begun-drinking-water/159370>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 5, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-begun-drinking-water/159370 "2003-03-05T23:54:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-begun-drinking-water/159370/21 "2003-03-07T01:33:13Z")

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Hi. Remember me? The one who pees alot?

I posted that my fluid intake is probably less now than it had been. ProjectOmega & Qadgop, you both seem to have missed that one.

Another question I came up with (at the urinal, of all places, imagine that…) is, does output color matter? For as much as I’ve been peeing lately, you’d think it would be clearer than it is. But it isn’t.

Again, thanks for your input to this point. It has given me something to consider, and has been informative as well.

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-begun-drinking-water/159370/22 "2003-03-07T01:44:40Z")

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I noted it **casey**. I just found it irrelevant to the process of ruling out diabetes, which to me is the first priority.

Output color can give indications, but its best to truly quantify urine concentration by specific gravity, done with a basic urine test. Your data as given is too subjective to comfortably speculate about as important a topic as your health. At least for me, as a professional. Others here will speculate endlessly, some with excellent info, some with terrible.

There, now I’ve beaten the subject of testing for diabetes to death.

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**Author:** ![Pantone\_Swatchbook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@Pantone\_Swatchbook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantone_Swatchbook)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-begun-drinking-water/159370/23 "2003-03-07T02:16:03Z")

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boo boo bear:

What other symptoms did you have besides the urination? How is life post-diagnosis? How was your adjustment? What kind of illness made you go to the hospital?

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**Author:** ![Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kite)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-begun-drinking-water/159370/24 "2003-03-07T02:21:23Z")

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> \*Originally posted by SenorBeef \*  
> \*\*Out of curiosity, have you studied the supposed negative effects of aspartame at all? Most of the information on the internet, at least, is poorly written and seems to be written in the manner of scare tactics, but there seems, with all the commotion, there might be something behind it. \*\*

Cecil also wrote about asparatame: [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a961129.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a961129.html)

I think the main problem with diet drinks is that they either 1. cause most people to crave more sweet things to eat and sabotage the diet or 2. take the place of food or drinks that actually do contain some nutrition. 3. they ruin your keyboard if you spill them on your computer, while water is less like to.

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