There has to be a happy medium for the amount of water consumed for each of us, thankfully Mrs D give us the facts on LARGE amounts of water to those at risk of complications with their med's and age group and it would be playing safe to ask their general practitioner what is an appropriate amount for them, but i think we have a pretty smart bunch of people here and i doubt very much that anyone here would go silly and start drinking like 20 glasses of water a day, its just common sense like anything else, like taking drugs, i take one tablet with one full glass of water, if i have to take another i wait a while and do the same with the other, no doc has ever told me to do this but to me its just common sense to me, i don't like the idea of throwing down a cocktail of different drugs/supplements all at the same time, i might be wrong but that how i like to take tablets with the extra benefit of getting another glass of water down.
The one and only time i took oxycontin for my PN, i took it in the night time and when i woke up i felt like a Mac truck had ran over me, the only thing that cleared it out of my system was water, it took about 3 hours before i felt right again, that's one drug that doesn't agree with my system.
Were i live now, the water actually tastes good, but when i lived in the big smoke it was awfull, i couldn't drink that crap unless i boiled it first or if i drank it through a filter, it does makes a big differance.
jeez, i have been raving on to long, sorry guys.
wishing you all painless time ahead.
Brian