Signs of Diabetes

11 Responses to “Can someone with diabetes please give me some warning signs. Please don’t send me to a website-I’ve been there”

1. LT Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 4:57 am

   If you don’t want the symptoms such as thirst etc., then there is no answer to give you. Go and have your self checked by the Doctor.
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2. *im a hyper girlie* Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 am

   well you will be drinking alot more water, going to the bathroom ever 5 mins (because you are drinking more), rapid weight loss, feeling extreme dizzyness, being unable to eat ((at some times)), shakieness, now this is one symtom my friend had, i dont know if every person will have it. since her body was no longer making insulin, she could only sit on hard objects, nothing fluffy n soft, like she sat on tables, chairs, cause fluffy things hurt her, now i dont know what that has to do with anything, im not a doctor, but im telling u wat happened to my friend
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   good luck

3. ngood10720 Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 6:10 am

   I have diabetes. The biggest warning sign that Ignored was fatigue. I was tired all the time and didn’t realize that indicated a problem. Frequent urination as in you can’t sleep through the night without having to go pee or just running back and forth all day and when you got to go its urgent you got to go. Headache. and honestly the headache was what finally got me diagnosed I kept having a headache and when aspirin didn’t help I finally went to the doctor.

   I have been on oral meds now for about 1 year and since my blood sugar numbers have gone down all of those symptoms have gone away.

   I hope this helps and good luck
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4. wally Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 6:44 am

   Most diabetics don’t realize they are ill or have anything important… They just say, they’ve been losing weight, always thirty, and going to the bathroom every 30 minutes. If you have any concerns then you should see a doctor. You should be seeing your doctor every year for a check-up anyway. The test for diabetes is pretty cheap.
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5. gangadharan_nair Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 7:01 am

   Diabetes may begin dramatically with ketoacidosis in type 1 or insidiously. Its most common symptom is fatigue, from energy deficiency and a catabolic state. However, many patients with type 2 diabetes may be asymptomatic.
   Insulin deficiency causes hyperglycemia, which pulls fluid from the body tissues, causing osmotic diuresis (secretion of the urine; often used to indicate increased function of the kidney), polyuria (excessive secretion of urine), dehydration, polydipsia (excessive thirst), dry mucous membranes, and poor skin turgor. In ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic state, dehydration may cause hypovolemia (abnormally decreased volume of circulating fluid (plasma) in the body) and shock. Wasting of glucose in the urine usually produces weight loss and hunger in uncontrolled type 1 diabetes, even if the patient eats voraciously.
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   http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec12/ch158/ch158b.html#sec12-ch158-ch158b-1105
   Handbook of Diseases- SPRINGHOUSE.

6. wildhorseracelover Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 7:15 am

   I think the symptoms listed on web sites tend to be accurate (Wikipedia is an exception) since I just wrote 40,000 words on the subject of diabetes. Only your doctor knows for sure – make an appointment and find your answers from a medical professional. We lay people can not be more specific (not that we don’t want to help you). Even a physician can not be more specific unless she tests your blood glucose levels. Good luck.
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7. Staffwise Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 7:47 am

   There is nothing I can add here,it’s been answered pretty well.The only way to find out for sure is to go and get tested,it’s just a finger prick,so if it does hurt it will only sting for about 2 seconds,and you will get the result within 2 minutes(depending which machine they are using)Here in the UK,most chemists will do the test for free!
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   I’ve been an insulin dependant diabetic(type 1) since 1969.

8. ml88b Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 8:01 am

   thirst-i could drink 2 20oz bottles of water in 10-15min and still feel super thirsty afterwards

   hunger-I wasnt hungry, I lost my appetite instead

   frequent urination-sometimes I’d go every 15 minutes, but i couldnt go more than 2 hours without going to the bathroom. I’d go to the bathroom 4 or 5 times a night too. (from 11pm-8am)

   tiredness- i could sleep 12 hours and still feel like i hadn’t slept. i had a hard time staying awake after 8pm.

   unexplained weightloss-i went from 150lbs to 107lbs in about 2 months

   blurry vision-my vision was blurry…lol. this was one of my last symptoms

   all these symptoms (except blurry vision) all kind of happened at once and just got slowly worse as time went on. what i just described for these symptoms was the last 3-4 weeks of being undiagnosed.

   I hope this is what you were looking for
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   type 1 diabetic

9. Monica Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 8:17 am

   Type 1 or type 2? Or Diabetes Insipidus? You’ll get more specfic answers when you ask more specific questions. Not that I saw any of your previous questions )

   My 2 year old was recently diagnosed with type 1. I’ll tell you how it happened with her. It seemed to come on slowly … and sped up once Halloween came and she got all that candy. It started with very dry skin, so dry she had a permanent rash. We would use Eucerin every day and it wouldn’t get better. She wouldn’t run around a play a lot. I thought she was just mellow, but tiredness is a symptom. And she peed a lot. I didn’t know she peed a lot, I thought it was normal. It had been 14 years since my last baby. She was losing some weight, but she would do that during a growth spurt, so it seemed normal. All this was very subtle at first, I never mentioned it to the doctor. But then she started peeing out of her diaper at night it was so full. And then she started eating less. Though it’s usually the little ones who eat less, the older ones tend to eat more. She started peeing through 3 and 4 diapers a night, and quit eating altogether. She was demanding huge amounts of liquids. We didn’t know what was wrong with her, we thought she was just being willful. But when we tried to cut back her liquids she would cry like she was in pain … so we just kept giving her liquids. I took her to the doctor who at first said she could have diabetes, but he doubted it. He said to take her home and try to cut back the liquids slowly. 4 days later I knew it wasn’t working, that’s when she got the test and found out she had it.

   But – we caught it early with her. Many type 1′s aren’t diagnosed until they get really sick. If my daugter had gone longer she would have began getting flu-like symptoms and would vomit. This is called ketoacidosis and is very serious, it can kill you.

   I had gestational diabetes when I was pregnant. I’m told it’s a lot like type 2, but it’s treated differently and goes away after the baby is born (either that or it turns into real type 2). I didn’t notice the extra peeing and hunger because I was pregnant, you know? And I didn’t lose weight. But my hair started coming out … mostly when I was washing my hair, I would get tons of it. I started to get a little bald spot. It wasn’t extremely noticible, just enough that my husband noticed it. And had a constant yeast infection … but it was different than a regular one. It wouldn’t get serious, but it would never go away either. It was odd.

   The signs of type 2 are subtle. That’s why people tell you to go to the doctor … you may not be able to recognise you have it.

   —edit–

   Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, my daughter would always tell me her eye hurt. Later figured out she was getting headaches … which is a symptom of high blood sugar (a symptom of diabetes)

   –another edit–

   I think the problem with the websites as it gives all the symptoms all at once, without talking about the progression. Different symptoms come at different stages. Like they say nausea, vomiting … well, if you wait until you’re vomiting then you’re in a life-threatening situation.
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10. Pree S Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 8:44 am

    here are some simple steps to see if you need to be tested
    1 – look at your hands, are they bloated?
    2 – have you been gaining weight steadily over a short period of time
    3 – do you feel bloated, meaning when you bend does you skin feel tight
    4 – do you feel itchy all over
    5 – are you always going to the bathroom
    6 – do you want something SWEET to drink like pop, or milk
    7 – after your done drinking are you still thristy
    8 – do you get charlie houses in your legs
    9 – do you get tingling feelings in your feet and fingers
    10 – do your feet feel cold all teh time

    see these are the symptoms that would warrent you to consider being tested
    its the symptoms my father and i had before we were diagnosed with diabetes
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11. SHAWNA W Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 9:33 am

    When I became diabetic, I wasn’t just thirsty. But after I drank a large glass of water, my mouth was dry. There just wasn’t any saliva. I think to just say thirsty is a misnomer. My vision got very blurry and I ‘d just bought new glasses. As far as fatigue goes, I could not get out of bed, except to pee every half hour. Because i ended up in the intensive care unit with ketoacidosis, and so dehydrated, most of my hair fell out three months later. 3 months before i became diabetic, I had a fasting blood sugar of 80, but if they had done an A1c they would have had a better picture of what was going on. So demand an A1C when you go to the doctor, and go today!!!
    A1C gives you a 6 week average of your glucose levels.
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