Hello everyone, this is my first publication, and well it occurred to me to tell you about something that perhaps for most will be new, can you believe that a human being can drink up to 20 liters of water in a day and urinate every 15 minutes?
Well, if such people exist, I introduce myself, I am María Gonçalves and I am one of them, 12 years ago, I was diagnosed with a rare or infrequent disease, called diabetes insipidus, beware, it has nothing to do with blood sugar, it is called that because It produces a lot of thirst and a great desire to urinate like diabetes mellitus, but its origin is in the pituitary gland, where a hormone called vasopressin is produced, which is in charge of regulating and balancing fluids in the body, and when we do not produce it We urinate and drink continuously.
Thank God and scientists, there is a medicine called desmopressin, which replaces the function of this hormone, and makes our lives pretty close to normal.
Although it is quite a challenge, because if we get stressed or physically agitated it tends to disappear, and if we drink alcoholic beverages it loses its effectiveness.
Another challenge is when we have a medical emergency of another nature, it is complex to explain that we have this, since there are very few doctors who are really informed about this pathology and since it is so rare, they tend to assume that it is diabetes mellitus, to tell them a Anecdote, I had a hysterectomy a year ago, and the nurses came to measure my sugar and gave me a sugar-free diet. So you can imagine the fear that desmopressin will be withheld from us in the event of being unable to speak or unaware.
Well sorry for the length, I hope you have learned something new today
Greetings, from a Venezuelan in Colombia, who by the way migrated due to a lack of desmopressin in her country.
Bye.
Kisses
