6 Signs It’s Probably Time To Go For Diabetes Treatment

What signs would you see to be convinced that someone has diabetes? Probably you’d say that if someone is amputated, is overweight, or has a swollen feet, then he has diabetes.

These are some of the signs and indications of someone who has diabetes.

Yet there are people with limbs intact, has average body weight, and a normal feet, and still has diabetes.

According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among the 29 million Americans who have diabetes, 1 out of 4 doesn’t know they have it.

How then, would you detect the signs of diabetes early enough to seek treatment.

It is true that the signs may vary from person to person, because everyone is different. However, this article would discuss 6 common signs that indicates a person has diabetes.

Feeling fatigue frequently

You could think of insulin as a key used to open door. It would be hard to get into a locked room if you don’t have a key, or if the key is broken.

Our body produce a key called insulin, which opens the cells and allows glucose to enter to be used as energy.

Someone is said to have diabetes if the person’s body either can’t produce insulin, or the body can’t use insulin, just as it is in the case of a broken key.

In either cases, your body would be deprived of energy giving glucose, making you tired most of the time.

This is why people with diabetes are frequently fatigued.

Apart from being fatigued, frequent urination is also a common sign of diabetes.

Increased thirst and frequent urination

Urination is your body’s way of removing things it considers as waste from your body. When glucose is not transported into the body cells, the body sees it as waste and tries to get rid of it.

Normally the kidney works hard to reabsorb the remaining glucose in the blood.

However, with those having diabetes, the sugar or glucose in the blood becomes too much for the kidney to abosorb.

To keep the blood clean and free from sugar, the body produces more urine than usual.

An average person urinates between four to seven times in 24 hours. However, a person with diabetes would exceed that range.

Because the kidney is removing more waste, it also requires more water to clear the waste, and this explains why frequent urination and being thirsty often is a sign of diabetes.

Blurry vision

Blurry vision is the loss of sharpness of vision and the inability to see fine details. High levels of sugar in your blood can affect your ability to see by causing the lens in your eyes to swell, which can result in temporary blurring of eyesight.

Of course, diabetes is not the only disease that affects your eyesight. Stroke, migraines, and some heart medications can cause blurry vision. That is why it is recommended that you inform your doctor to ran the necessary tests in case you have any of these symptoms.

Unnecessary weight loss

People with diabetes experience unexplained weight loss. It is referred to as “unexplained” because people with diabetes does nothing in the form of exercise or dieting to reduce weight.

This occurs because insufficient or ineffective use of insulin by the body makes the body deficient in energy.

As you may know already, your body was designed to heal itself. For this reason, in the absence of energy from glucose, the body tries to burn fat and muscles for energy.

This explains why those with diabetes tend to loose weight without even making the effort.

Wounds that heal slowly

High sugar or glucose in the blood can, with time, affect the nerves and lead to poor circulation, making it hard for blood needed for skin repair to reach areas of the body affected by wounds.

If you have a wound that is taking longer than usual to heal, I’ll recommend that you consult your doctor as soon as possible to have the wound examined.

Frequent infections

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that those with diabetes would have lots of infections. The reason is simple; they have weaker immune system, and therefore their body can no longer fight most infections.

Among these infections are foot infections, yeast infections, urinary tract infections, and other yeast infections.

When these kinds of infections affects you often, then you definitely have to book doctor’s appointment.

Final notes

These are the six signs that are common with people having diabetes. It is true that the signs of diabetes are many.

However, if your wound is not healing as it should, you feel tired easily, your vision blurs out sometimes, you are always hungry and thirsty, you are loosing weight without effort, or you seem to have infections regularly, then you definitely have to see your doctor for diabetes check-up.