During the Feast of Tabernacles, it became increasingly obvious to me that I was feeling far more dehydrated than normal.  Now, it should be noted that I tend to drink a lot of water, and this has been true for some time, not least because drinking a fair amount of water has been a reliable way of keeping the uric acid levels down and because I tend to be rather thirsty when I am eating.  But the amount of water I was drinking during the feast (which has continued afterwards) attracted considerable notice.  Not only did the restaurant staff seem unused to it, although they also found it somewhat amusing at times, but so too the people I was eating with noted that I tended to be immensely thirsty.  And since I already tend to be a bit thirsty and drink a lot of water, it was definitely strange to be drinking even more than usual.

It is more interesting, and certainly a bit distressing, that this trend has continued after the feast, when I have returned from hot and humid areas in the Caribbean where it would be expected that someone who tends to dehydrate easily would need lots of water to an area that is in its usual cold and wet wintry phase, where it is more notable that I am thirstier than I have normally been.  What makes it more problematic is not drinking more water than normally.  After all, I managed to avoid any gout outbreaks, and that is good.  What is troublesome is drinking so much water and not feeling less dehydrated than I was before.  That is something that troubles me at least somewhat, because while it is no problem to drink a lot of water, far more than the average person does as it appears to me, it is more troubling when one drinks a lot of water and finds that one does not feel any less thirsty until one has had a lot of water, and then one feels thirsty again within two or three hours, which is definitely frustrating.

What are the reasons for such unquenchable thirst?  As someone who does a fair amount of reading, I try to figure out what sort of conditions can make someone so thirsty.  Is it simply a matter of having an unusually strong case of dry mouth, where the mouth simply does not register that it is no longer thirsty?  Is it something related to diabetes or kidney problems?  Those are certainly both possible, although I have drastically cut down the amount of sugar I eat (and drink), which ought to have made that less of a problem than it was before, one would think.  There are a few more exotic conditions, but I do not think they are too likely.  At any rate, this gives me yet more thing I would need to talk about with my doctor at my next complete health checkup, which should prove to be somewhat exciting given the sort of things that should be addressed at some point, at least.

Are there any symbolic meanings to having such an unquenchable thirst?  I am sure that such symbolic meanings could be figured out.  One could point to the Greek myth of Tantalus, who was punished with forever going thirsty despite standing in a pool of water, although I have committed no such crime as he was recorded to have done.  Certainly it is quite interesting that as a child I had a hollow leg and was able to eat large amounts of food without gaining weight (something that is sadly no longer true), and now it would appear that I have a follow kidney or bladder, where I am able to drink a lot without having to go to the bathroom very quickly, or gain the benefits of drinking a lot when it comes to avoiding that dehydrated color.  As it happens, I tend to view the analysis of one’s urine something that is almost as entertaining and worthwhile as examining the state of one’s excrement.  And when it never loses that yellow color no matter how much one drinks, then one still needs to keep drinking, which is something that one has to accept, even if one does not always know what it means.