Diabetes Signs - How to Determine If You Have Diabetes Symptoms
June 17th, 2010 | 
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Diabetes has been one of the diseases of the human body that has certain peculiar characteristics. One of which is its capability to develop symptoms showing out from our bodies in a quick and rather rapid way. These diabetes signs can show up in just a course of weeks or days mostly in children and adolescents.
One of the most common signs of diabetes would be the urge to urinate frequently. Somehow it is very easy to spot this kind of sign. You just need to ask yourself, “Am I visiting the bathroom to urinate more frequently?” If the answer is yes, then you must be in the look out for some other symptoms of having diabetes. Frequent urination is caused due to increased levels of glucose in your blood. In short, having lesser glucose in the blood would likely lead to let your bladder feel full and thus keeps you having the urge to urinate often.
Another sign to look out for is having that unquenchable thirst. If you are feeling like you cannot get enough of drinking water and still feel that you are thirst, then this might well be another sign of diabetes. Your body has been getting extra water out of your blood and you have been urinating often. Such will lead you to dehydration. Thus explains the need to quench your thirst by drinking more water.
Feeling weak might explain the lack of insulin from our body. Insulin helps the glucose to reach out to our cells so that we will be replenished with energy. If such important element is gone, then it clearly elucidates our being tired and weak.
These are just some of the diabetes signs that we all should be alert of. If you happen to notice some, don’t hesitate to be checked by your physician. It’s better to be safe than sorry.
By: Tessa Watson
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June 17th, 2010 3:41 pm
Thanks for this article. It’s so important to know this kind of stuff because the more aware you are, the earlier you can spot diabetes, or any other illness, or disease.
Cheers
Sam
June 17th, 2010 8:16 pm
I’m planning on getting tested for diabetes soon because I have some of the symptoms of it (but not the most common one of extreme thirst). I have slightly blurry vision that my eye doctor can’t figure out, my mom has diabetes, I have some symptoms of hypoglycemia, and I have tingling fingers after eating. I don’t think I have it, but it’s better to be safe than sorry just like you said!!
June 17th, 2010 9:53 pm
Good post, diabetes is not a great thing at all. Just recently, the owner of Holiday World in Santa Clause, Indiana died from diabetes.
June 20th, 2010 10:01 pm
One symptom you missed: you may have diabetes if your breath smells fruity.
June 22nd, 2010 10:28 am
I’m just seeing this post for the first time. Thank you so much for mentioning me. Thanks again!
June 30th, 2010 11:31 am
As u have rightly said knowing signs and synptoms of diabetes will help us totake preventive measure andreduce the threat fattack from disease.Common sympton is frequent urination an also got to know unquenchable thirst for drinking water is another symptom.
July 1st, 2010 3:42 am
Did you mention : skin wounds that takes long time to heal is one sign of diabetes? It’s one symptom I very know about diabetes aside from feeling weak. I like you sharing this bits of information to all readers online, Thanks!
July 2nd, 2010 10:01 pm
Thanks for the tips, I will be on the lookout for those symptoms in the future.
July 3rd, 2010 6:59 am
Everybody knows that the diabetes is a disease which can not be completely cured. Herbal remedies are also helpful to control it upto some extent. Healthy diet, good lifestyle and regular walking and exercises helps to void any sever problem.
July 14th, 2010 1:06 pm
I agree that if a person has a wounds and it takes a long time to heal, he/she has a diabetes. I’m now very conscious about my health.
July 15th, 2010 9:08 am
Just to make things simpler and easy to remember the classical symptoms of Diabetes can be determined by 4 P’s namely:
Polyuria - frequent urination
Polydipsia - increased thirst
Polyphagia - increased hunger
Pain /wound that does not heal
July 16th, 2010 5:32 pm
Diabetes is a chronic and complex disease. There are approximately 21 million people in the United States today with diabetes. Almost half of these people don’t know they have diabetes. Worldwide, it is estimated there are 194 million people worldwide who have diabetes.
November 5th, 2010 9:00 am
I’m glad to hear about this post which is very useful especially it concerns with our health. Knowing the symptoms are very important for you be aware on what you should do and prevent diabetes. We have to be very conscious with our health.
November 9th, 2010 9:37 am
I’ve been worrying this time if I have some complications with regards to my blood sugar. I could hardly determine the symptoms, but thanks for some information you’ve shared with us in you post.
November 13th, 2010 10:08 am
It’s really important to detect earlier if you have Diabetes since it would be very dangerous if it was already complicated. However, most people are not aware of the signs of Diabetes and that is why it’s already too late when they had discovered that they had Diabetes. Thanks a lot for sharing this info.