Had I known these Early Signs of Diabetes, I Wouldn’t be Suffering this much now

9 Early Symptoms of Diabetes to Recognize for a Timely Diagnosis

Diabetes is a disease that affects your body’s ability to produce or respond to insulin, resulting in high blood sugar. The first symptoms can be so subtle that some people might brush them off as insignificant. If left untreated, diabetes can not only decrease the quality of life but also reduce life expectancy, which is why it is so crucial to diagnose the disease early.

Health is Wealth compiled a list of the most common early signs of diabetes that will help you spot the disease in time.

Increased thirst (polydipsia) and frequent urination (polyuria) are the most common symptoms of diabetes. When you have diabetes, your kidneys can’t absorb all the excess sugar. Instead, it ends up in your urine, taking along fluids from your tissues. This makes you pee more and leaves you feeling dehydrated. To quench your thirst, you start drinking more, which leads to even more frequent urination.

The average person urinates 6–7 times a day. Anywhere between 4 and 10 times a day is also normal if the person is healthy and the number of bathroom breaks hasn’t changed.

Excessive hunger (polyphagia), together with the increased thirst and urination mentioned above, make up the 3 major signs of diabetes. If your body doesn’t produce enough (or any) insulin or if it doesn’t respond to it the normal way, it can’t convert food into the glucose that your cells use for energy. And that causes increased hunger that doesn’t go away after eating. In fact, eating only makes the blood sugar even higher.

If you keep eating but your hunger persists, you may need to consult your physician, even if you seemingly don’t have any other symptoms of diabetes.

Another common sign of diabetes is constant fatigue. When you have diabetes, you feel tired and sleepy all the time for the same reason that you always feel hungry: your cells don’t have enough glucose to use for energy. Dehydration caused by frequent urination also contributes to feeling exhausted.

Fatigue can be a symptom of many other conditions, some not even medical (carb-heavy diet, too much caffeine, aging). But when combined with other symptoms from this list, it can be a sign of diabetes.

When blurred vision is not a sign of a more serious eye problem, it can be an early sign of diabetes. It happens due to shifting fluids, which makes the lens of your eye swell and change shape. This affects your ability to focus, and things start to look blurry or fuzzy.

These changes in the eye are usually reversible, and your eyesight should go back to normal as your blood sugar levels stabilize with treatment. However, if diabetes is left untreated, these changes can progress and lead to blindness.

Unexplained weight loss means losing a lot of weight without the help of dieting or exercising. Since your body can’t use glucose as a source of energy when you have diabetes, it starts burning fat and muscle for energy instead, causing your weight to drop. Dehydration also contributes to sudden weight loss since your body uses all available fluids to produce urine.

Unexpected weight loss is a common early sign of type 1 diabetes, but it can affect people suffering from type 2 diabetes as well.

Find other signs in our video, make sure you watch it till the end!

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