Thirst That Never Ends: Diabetes Insipidus Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe diabetes insipidus, a rare condition writers know by its relentless thirst and constant trips to the bathroom. They trace it to pituitary surgery and tumours, a car crash and a head knock, meningitis, sarcoidosis, lithium taken for bipolar disorder, late pregnancy, or birth itself. Many were told it was sugar diabetes, a urine infection or simply drinking too much; one waited fifteen years for a name, and another was told by two doctors to drink less. The voices include a road-train driver in Western Australia, a West Cork sheep farmer with his flask, a marathon runner, a firefighter, a manager in three-hour meetings, a pharmacist after her own surgery, a medical student, and the parents of a baby who never stopped crying and a three-year-old drinking from the garden hose, from Manchester to Lahore, Nairobi and Bogotá. Writers describe desmopressin as tablets, nasal spray and melts, a salt drip test, sick-day plans, fasting in Ramadan, and travelling with spare medicine. Hospitals recur: doses forgotten on a ward, the same explanation given in four emergency visits, a wife speaking up in intensive care. Harder moments include an emergency visit after drinking too much on a long run, a fall in the dark, and life before today's tablets; for one writer the thirst simply went away.

Who it's for

For people living with diabetes insipidus or still searching for answers about endless thirst, and for the parents, partners and grown children who keep the water close and the doses on time.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 237 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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