One of the nice side effects of Chiari is an unquenchable thirst. Apparently, the cerebellum is in charge of my thirst meter.
I drink probable more than 100 oz if water a day and yet I am still thirsty! There is evidence to suggest that the cerebellum is responsible for a number of cognitive tasks. Here are a few of them: sensory processing and discrimination, mental imagery, motor learning, classical conditioning, non-motor learning and memory, linguistic processing, timing estimation, emotion perception and experience, visual spatial memory, executive function (including verbal working memory, strategy, reasoning, and verbal fluency) , and autonomic functions including the experience and anticipation of pain, thirst, hunger, and smell.
So ~ in summary ~ all of the above mentioned functions go haywire when the cerebellum is being squished into the spinal column!
Amazing. And yet you still write so eloquently!
ReplyDeleteI find this very interesting as I am so completely opposite.
ReplyDeleteI have been doing Weight Watchers for about 6 months now. I'm supposed to be drinking a measley 48oz of water a day.
1) Water is NASTY! I can't stomach it at all. I guess it's subconscious but I get totally nauseated at the taste of plain water.
I have to drink Fruit20 or Crystal Light or put Sweet n Low & Lemon in it just to stomach the stuff.
2) I drink mostly milk & fruit juice. But, even with that... if I drink more than about 36oz of anything, I just want to get sick. Totally bloated & nauseated.
I wish I could drink as much as you do, but I am just never thirsty.