Can I not drink water anymore? Why does it do this now?

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing trying to drink more water lately has been doing this. I've been getting this stomach pain like nausea/diarrhea feeling. I can't say I'm 100% sure that it's the drinking more water, but I'm guessing it is since this problem started when I started trying to get on track with water and drinking water right now just made it start again. It feels like I'm gonna throw up, maybe have diarrhea and not sleep tonight. I went to the bathroom when I got it earlier and that did a tiny relief but it wasn't diarrhea so I guess that was wrong. I'm scared to drink plain water now.

[Reddr]

Could the water have been contaminated? Or something else you ate? Water itself isn't going to make you sick. Your body is 75% water, you need to drink it. What can make you sick is bacteria in the water, drinking too much (or too little), or being dehydrated and then forcing too much of it in your system too quickly.
There was recently a recall on some bottled water for being contaminated with e coli. If you drank bottled water you should look into that.

[Asker]

Ooh. Oh wow! Yeah, it's the bottled water that I've been drinking

[Asker]

And I always drink bottled water and I never had a problem with it so I was like what the heck

[KidInk4]

Bottled water is actually really just tap water on a bottle, they clean it of course butttt it's just tap water they sell in a bottle, it's more expensive than just drinking from your faucet

[Asker]

They're both the same thing? And if I have problems with bottled water then I have the same problems with tap water?

[Reddr]

The post about tap and bottled water being the same thing is true, but unrelated to the point I was making. SOME brands of bottled water were recently recalled because they were contaminated with E. Coli. I mentioned this because if you had been drinking bottled water, you need to check to see if it could have been some of the recalled bottles. E. Coli can cause the symptoms you described. Simply drinking more water (unless you are drinking too much and that takes several gallons daily) will not cause what you are describing regardless of the source (bottled, tap, etc). The source matters when a certain source is contaminated by a parasite or bacteria which any source can be contaminated as such.

[Asker]

Ooh ok. Thank you. Should I look at the brand of it and do research?

[Reddr]

Yes. It was quite a long list.

[beautifulangel76]

Maybe it's the water that you are drinking. I did somewhat of the same thing but none of that happened. It could also be something you ate or something in the water.

[Asker]

Yeah, that's not the first time that I drank one or two bottles of water close together. I was fine all the other times but I don't know. Maybe it is something with the water unless it's a coincidence and the water just triggered it.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, it'll turn your stool in to more watery feeling, pop will make it hard. Also, be careful with how much water you drink consecutively, there is such a thing as water poisoning

[Asker]

Really?

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah, but that's only if you drink too much, too fast, you're probably fine with what you're doing

[Asker]

Like one or two bottles of water?

[Opinion Owner]

No, that's fine

[Asker]

It must have been something else then?

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah, most likely

[Asker]

Oh wow! I have no idea then. And if I don't know what it is then I don't know how to prevent it