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Subject:
psycogenic polydipsia in an otherwise healthy young man.
Category: Health > Conditions and Diseases Asked by: amulekii-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
03 Jun 2005 17:34 PDT
Expires: 03 Jul 2005 17:34 PDT Question ID: 529122 |
I want any legitimate information on psychological/neurological reasons for drinking too much water (polydipsia). I will give you $0.00 for schizophrenia, central diabetes insipidus (also called neurogenic diabetes insipidus,which I'm not classifying as a neural ohenomenon), drug-related (including lithium), obsessive, compulsive, or obsessive compulsive behavior, or any particularly abnormal neural effects except those directly caused by hyponatremia. Finally, I don't want anything extremely weird like thinking that aliens are telling you to drink too much water. Also, the cases or information you find should not be connected to alcaholism or recreational/prescription drug use. I am, however, particularly interested in patients who have developed hypervolemic hyponatremia. I have an extreme and constant thirst that the doctors think may be neurologically/psychologically related but they have no basis other than the impulse to blame all unexplained sicknesses on psychology. I am interested in otherwise normal people having the sensation that they are very thirsty even when their bodies don't need that water. Such cases as the following would be right on the money: actual cases of water dependency, where one's brain actually has come to depend on too much water. Regulatory mechanisms in the brain that are offset so as to tell the body that it needed too much water, or simply a hallucinatory thirst. |
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Subject:
Re: psycogenic polydipsia in an otherwise healthy young man.
From: baz2121-ga on 06 Jun 2005 11:09 PDT |
You might be a little confused. You've basically ruled out every single possible explanation of psychogenic polydipsia that is known to the medical world. Hypervolaemic hyponatraemia is a result/symptom of polydipsia not a cause in most cases. Drug-related hyponatraemia can cause polydipsia, but if you're not on any drugs then it has to be a symptom of the excessive drinking not an aetiology. Is your hyponatraemia severe enough to be causing headaches, dizziness, seizures or lethargy? Apart from schizophrenia, OCD, diabetes, drugs or psychosis there is no other accepted known cause besides you like water and it's come sort of compulsion. You could be one of those rare new cases, in which case I'd recommend you go see a neurologist, endocronologist, nephrologist or all three. It could possibly be a ADH/cortisone reflux disease in which case you're secreting next to no ADH, which is telling your nephrons to release water causing a thirst, but this is unlikely and You'd know about such a condition by now! :) |
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