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Q: Diabetes symptoms?
I have 3 nap during the day
Is this one of the symptoms for diabetes??
I’ve always been at risk
Overweight, 57 yrs old
Don’t seem as compulsive with food as I used to be
If I eat something high in sugar what effect will it have ?
Thank you all!
I don’t need a doctor I have you guys!!
I’ll go on Monday, I have been at risk all my life, but I notice a subtle change lately.

A: What are the main Symptoms of Diabetes?
The most consistent symptom of diabetes mellitus (Type I and II) is elevated blood sugar levels. In Type I (insulin dependent / early onset) diabetes, this is caused by the body not producing enough insulin to properly regulate blood sugar. In Type II (non insulin dependent/adult onset) diabetes, it is caused by the body developing resistance to insulin, so it cannot properly use what it produces.

However, high blood sugar is not something you can see in the mirror at home, so it is useful to know the side-effects of high blood sugar, which are commonly recognized as the noticeable symptoms of diabetes.

If you find yourself experiencing many of these diabetes symptoms on a consistent, long term basis, you should visit a doctor to be tested for diabetes. Ignoring (or not recognizing) the symptoms of diabetes can lead to long-term serious health risks and complications from untreated diabetes. Some of the common ‘early warning’ signs of diabetes are:

The first symptom of diabetes is often excessive thirst (unrelated to exercise, hot weather, or short-term illness)
Excessive hunger (you know you’ve eaten “enough” but are still hungry all the time)
Frequent urination (often noticed because you must wake up repeatedly during the night)
Tiredness and fatigue (possibly severe enough to make you fall asleep unexpectedly after meals), one of the most common symptoms of diabetes.
Rapid and/or sudden weight loss (any dramatic change in weight is a sign to visit a doctor)
While many of the signs and symptoms of diabetes can also be related to other causes, testing for diabetes is very easy, and the constant/regular presence of one or more of these symptoms over an extended period of time should be cause for a visit to the doctor.

If diabetes is suspected, tested for, and diagnosed when those symptoms first start appearing, other more serious symptoms of advanced diabetes can often be prevented or have their onset significantly delayed through diet, exercise and proper blood sugar management.

However, often the ‘minor’ symptoms of diabetes go unrecognized, and physical and neurological problems may arise, resulting in some
of the following symptoms:

Blurred vision (diabetes can lead to macular degeneration and eventual blindness)
Numbness and/or tingling in the hands and feet (peripheral neuropathy, a symptom of diabetes, causes nerve damage in the extremities)
Slow healing of minor scratches and wounds (diabetes often leads to impaired immune system function)
Recurrent or hard-to-treat yeast infections in women (another sign of impaired immune function)
Dry or itchy skin (peripheral neuropathy also affects circulation and proper sweat gland function)
If you are experiencing any of these symptoms on a regular basis, or you recognize these symptoms in a child or relative, they may be signs of untreated diabetes. A doctor’s appointment should be made as soon as possible, so the individual experiencing the symptoms can — if diabetes is diagnosed — take the steps needed to prevent more serious health problems

Q: Diabetes Symptoms?
Hi

Now a days i feel very thirsty and frequent urination.
but iam not feeling hungry as before.

As i hear that symptoms of diabetes contain frequent urination, drying mouth and very heigh hunger.
but in my case i have drying mouth and frequent urination but no hungery.

is that a symptom of diabeties. please help me out.

Thanks in advance

A: I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes about 6 years ago, and with that experience, i would strongly suggest seeing a health care profressional immediately. I had some of the symptoms beforehand, abd did not know that they were the symptoms of diabetes at the time. What got me to to realize what I had were the symptoms of a heart attack. If it turns out to be a false alarm, at least you will be assured of that. If it turns out to be true, then you can take the first steps towards dealing with it. This includes getting support from a doctor, getting support through all resources available, and support from your family. A good resource is the American Diabetes Association which has a website online, and many glucometer manufacturers offer free meters to diabetics. If you wish, feel free to contact me at Spyderblade@yahoo.com, and I will be happy to provide any support and help you need as a fellow diabetic.

Q: diabetes symptoms?
what r the signs and symptoms of gestational diabetes? I have read everywhere and everything sounds just like symptoms of pregnancy *frequent urination and thirsty* anything that gives a big clue u may have diabetes during pregnancy?

A: Yes there is, Have your blood sugar level tested, your doctor, or clinic can do it in 20 seconds, just a prick on your finger or forearm, you must find out, because diabetes does severe damage to your body, and uncontrolled evuntally death.

Q: What are the biggest symptoms of diabetes?
It runs in my family, and I’ve already inherited anemia from my grandma, and hypothyroidism, so I’m pretty much waiting on the diabetes. Symptoms I should watch out for?

A: increased urination, increased liquid intake and thirst, irreducible fatigue, rapid or gradual (but still realy noticable) despite the fact that diabetes will make you have a bigger appetite

if you don’t wear glasses – blurred vision is a sign. but if you wear glasses – increasingly blurry vision or worse vision is a big sign (gradually worsening vision is a sign of type 2)

all of this is for type 1 diabetes

Q: I have some of the symptoms of diabetes?
I’m 12 years old (Grade 7) and I’ve been experiencing some of the diabetes symptoms. But than again, it might be because I’m growing.

Blurry vision
Extreme hunger
Increased fatigue
Itchy skin, yeast infections
Leg Pain (Rarely though)

These are most of the symptoms. Should I go visit a doctor anyways?

A: According to my doctor, the three main symptoms of diabetes are:

pee a lot
drink a lot
losing a lot of weight

You don’t mention any of those, but it might be a good idea to get a complete physical just to set your mind at ease.

Q: what are the main symptoms of diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis?
Both diseases run on my moms side of the family and,so far I have a few of those symptoms(according to my mom)

but,I don’t know much.Like I have cuts and bruises,that never go away.Thats one thing.(I have to get a ganglion removed dec 5)although,my feet are also effected.

So,symptoms of diabetes?
symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis?(19 yrs old)

A: There are basically two types of gene mutations in respect to disease. One type of mutation causes a disease. For example, the mutant gene may cause achrondroplasia (a form of dwarfism) or it may cause hemophilia or cystic fibrosis or sickle cell disease. The existence of genes that cause diseases has long been recognized.

The other type of gene mutation does not directly cause a disease but rather predisposes to it. These genes make a person susceptible to developing a disease. These susceptibility genes often involve common chronic diseases such as diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.

An important finding has just been made about the genetic susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmunity. We will outline the finding.

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common systemic autoimmune disease. It affects 1% of all adults in the world. The disease is characterized by immune-mediated destruction of the joint architecture. It is 2 to 3 times more common in women than men. The heritability of rheumatoid arthritis is 60%, reflecting a strong genetic component in the disease.

Design of Research: To identify genes involved in the susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis, a “discovery study” was done testing for 87 variations called SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) in candidate genes and regions. The discovery study involved 475 individuals with rheumatoid arthritis and 475 individually matched controls.

Result: One of the SNPs was found to be associated with rheumatoid arthritis. It was a “missense” SNP in a gene encoding a protein tyrosine phosphorylase. This risk SNP was present in 28% of those with rheumatoid arthritis and 17% of the controls

Comment: A variant of this same SNP encoding the same phosphorylase enzyme was recently found associated with type 1 diabetes, another autoimmune disease. It is beginning to look as if this variant phosphatase may increase the overall reactivity of the immune system and may raise the risk for autoimmune disease.

Q: What are the symptoms of type 2 diabetes and how long could you have it before you realized?
I have read that in type 2 diabetes, the symptoms can be virtually non-existent, so how can you tell?

A: 3 words – Polyphagia, polydipsia, and polyuria. They mean to eat a lot, drink a lot, and pee a lot. Those are questions we are taught to ask patients to screen for diabetes. Other things DM II can do is cause nerve damage, kidney damage, and eye damage. It raises blood pressure and can increase your risk of heart attacks. Bad thing all around. To diagnose it see your doctor and get a fasting blood glucose level.

Q: Are the symptoms of diabetes the symptoms of high blood sugar?
What I mean is, do you ONLY have the symptoms of diabetes (peeing often, drinking often etc.) if you have high blood sugar?

A: Yes.
Those symptoms only occur during high blood sugar.
However, low blood sugar comes with other symptoms: shaking, mood swings (personally, i have to fight back tears xD), nervousness, extreme fatigue, desperate hunger, fogginess, dizziness, sweating. Those are my symptoms but other people experience other things.

Low blood sugar is MUCH more noticeable than High Blood sugar, you only usually have high blood sugar symptoms when you’re above 300.

Q: How long does it take for symptoms(diabetes) to show up?
Like say you’re thirsty as one of the first symptoms, how long until you get another?
and if the only diabetic symptom I have is being thirsty and peeing all the time I probably have pre diabetes right?
I know I should see my doctor, I’m getting the whole test done in a few weeks

A: If you are concerned about diabetes, then you need to talk to your doctor. That being said, diabetes is a disease that is diagnosed with blood work and laboratory values not just from symptoms. Many people with diabetes have absolutely no symptoms at all and would never have any reason to suspect that anything was wrong unless their doctor happened to discover abnormalities on routine blood work.

A brief explanation of diabetes follows with some on prediabetes:

Type 1 diabetes tends to occur in young people, generally starting at childhood but some people develop it even into their 30’s (I worked with a guy who got it this late). In this condition it is thought that a person’s immune system attacks the cells in their pancreas that make insulin, so they stop producing insulin. Once this happens, a person can have all kinds of symptoms, including thirst, frequent urination, constant hunger, and weight loss. Some people will also feel awful and may become delirious having no idea where they are or what is going on around them. There is not really such a thing as prediabetes with Type 1 diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes tends to happen in older people and is the result of insulin resistance coupled with a failure of the pancreas to produce enough insulin to overcome the resistance. What is sometimes referred to as prediabetes is when the body simply has insulin resistance, but still produces enough insulin to overcome this. When the pancreas fails to produce the necessary amount of insulin, then the person becomes a type 2 diabetic. How is insulin resistance diagnosed? With lab values from samples of blood. The progression of type 2 diabetes is judged by the dose of insulin needed to maintain a low enough blood sugar and by the complications of diabetes present.

Complications of diabetes that doctors look at to monitor disease progression are not thirst and frequency of urination. Thirst, frequency of urination, and hunger (also called polydipsia, polyuria, and polyphagia or the 3 P’s), are acute symptoms caused by high blood sugar and failure to become satiated. Giving insulin and correcting blood sugar will quickly correct these symptoms. To monitor disease progression, doctors look at chronic problems from diabetes, which tend not to get better once present even with insulin and improved blood sugar control.

Some examples are damage to blood vessels (which can require amputation in extreme cases), damage to nerves (leading to numbness in the feet and hands), eye damage, kidney damage, and some other problems. Unfortunately, it is difficult to say how soon this type of damage will occur after the development of diabetes, but it frequently takes years. Chronic good blood sugar control tends to delay the onset of these symptoms in general. However, some people are lucky and have no symptoms despite poor blood sugar control, while other people with very good blood sugar control develop symptoms quickly.

There are also some other types of diabetes that can relate to pregnancy or to non-immune pancreas damage.

To sum things up, a concern about diabetes is a reason to see a doctor, who can do what it takes to make a diagnosis or rule diabetes out. The symptoms can present in many different ways, and may not be present at all. If a person has 2 symptoms suggestive of diabetes, there is no telling how long until they will develop another or if they will.

Q: Do diabetes symptoms get worse until treated or can you have better days?
Can you have better days where the extreme thirst and urination is not so bad or will these symptoms just get worse until you get treatment?
No I’m not overweight. I have had extreme thirst and urination for 2 weeks and am slightly worried that it could be diabetes. I’m not so bad today so I’m thinking maybe it cant be.

A: You should get checked out by your doctor right away. I am a Type 1 diabetic and these were my symptoms. Although the symptoms are familiar to both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics.
It’s always best to have a health check. A simple blood test and urine test will soon point to the problem and then medication will be given if necessary. There again there may be another explanation for your symptoms
By the way Type 1 diabetes has nothing to do with obesity or being overweight. It is thought to be caused by a virus attacking the immune system.

Q: When do u get Gestational Diabetes symptoms?
When do u get Gestational Diabetes symptoms?

A: Some women don’t have symptoms, which is why practitioners give routine screening. If you are feeling anything unusual that you think might me attributed to GD, call your doctor or midwife. They will probably order a blood test, regardless of how far along you are.

Best wishes for good health!

Q: Symptoms of Diabetes and How do they test for it?
I have a horrid diet and diabetes is very prevalent in my family, I think I may have it. How do they test for diabetes and what are the symptoms?

A: There are several ways to test:

1) A simple urine test will give an indication for howhigh your blood sugar is.

2) They can do a resting blood sugar test to see how high your sugar is.

3) They can do a Hemoglobin A1C to see on average, how high your sugar has been.

Symptoms of diabetes include: Weight loss, irritability, sudden poor eyesight, insatiable thirst, leg cramps when you lay down, horrid pain in your kidneys, increased urination

Q: What are the most basic symptoms of diabetes?
I’ve always had lots of sugar, and don’t seem to have symptoms of diabetes. How can I know if I have it?
Also, how do you know if you have bad blood? I ask because I’ve always ate unhealthy food, for like 10 years.

A: -frequent urination
-infections, cuts slow to heal (type2)
-frequent thirst
-frequent hunger
-fatigue
-bruise-like rash on your neck(mostly type 2)
-Breath that has a corn like odor to it
-Urine that has a strong odor
-blurred vision
-unexplained weight loss

Type 1 symptoms usually show up suddenly, while type 2 symptoms progressively get worse over time.

Q: What is the cause and symptoms of diabetes?What isthe best way to prevent and treat it?
What is the cause and symptoms of diabetes?What isthe best way to prevent and treat it?

A: Bad diet and lack of exersise, good diet and exersise.

Q: If blood sugar levels are in normal range,can you still have diabetes symptoms?
Ive been checking on my blood sugar levels because i have a history in my family and because im over weight,i also have been getting these weird symptoms like; fatigue,shaky hands,some mood swings,and my eyes be feeling weird but not blurry nor out of focus they feel like they want to sink in,but i have been checking my sugar for the past week and its always in normal range,can someone give me good advise?

A: Normal range blood sugar will vary throughout the day based on what you have eaten, how much physical activity you have gotten and how long it has been since you have eaten. On an empty stomach, blood sugar levels should be between 70 and 100mg/dL for a non-diabetic. However, you still not considered a diabetic until blood sugar levels following an overnight fasting are above 126mg/dL.

Let’s say that your blood sugar level on an empty stomach or after an overnight fast is around 115mg/dL. You may assume that you have diabetes – since it is above the high range or “normal” – but you do not. Rather you have what called pre-diabetes or IFG (impaired fasting glucose) and sometimes known as IGT (impaired glucose tolerance).

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