What are the specific symptoms of diabetes like?!
Question: Hi I have suspicion of having diabetes because of strange symptoms began two weeks ago, but will not be able to see a doctor for a while. Please tell me the details of those symptoms:
Excess thirst: I don't feel any, but my mouth and lips are dry.
Excess urination: how frequent is consider excess? I do notice that if I drink water without food, my frequency is around once every half hour.
Excess hunger: What is consider excess hunger? Let's see, I ate a little bit in the morning at 8:30, and then start to get quite hungary around 11:00...
My other symptoms: tireness, fatique, I still work out as I always do but felt like that is a loss of energy, not as active as I used to be...two weeks ago. Very mild headache especially after working out, like tightness behind the ears and neck.
The nurse told me it's probably a flu? But I won't be able to find out until I do a blood test or MRI. At the moment, please help me out with those details.
Answers: Hi I have suspicion of having diabetes because of strange symptoms began two weeks ago, but will not be able to see a doctor for a while. Please tell me the details of those symptoms:
Excess thirst: I don't feel any, but my mouth and lips are dry.
Excess urination: how frequent is consider excess? I do notice that if I drink water without food, my frequency is around once every half hour.
Excess hunger: What is consider excess hunger? Let's see, I ate a little bit in the morning at 8:30, and then start to get quite hungary around 11:00...
My other symptoms: tireness, fatique, I still work out as I always do but felt like that is a loss of energy, not as active as I used to be...two weeks ago. Very mild headache especially after working out, like tightness behind the ears and neck.
The nurse told me it's probably a flu? But I won't be able to find out until I do a blood test or MRI. At the moment, please help me out with those details.
I have type I diabetes, otherwise known as juvenile diabetes or diabetes mellitus. I have been diabetic for twenty three years. Here is what I know about experiencing the symptoms.
Excess Thirst: First think about what you would normally drink in a day. If normally you are thirsty at breakfast, then mid-morning, at lunch, then mid-afternoon, at dinner and before bed, then EXCESS would mean that you might be thirsty and want to drink fluids every hour or every half hour, which then leads to-
Excess Urination: This is considered EXCESS if you are urinating after every time that you drink. It almost happens together, you get really thirsty and you drink a lot, and then you will have to urinate two or three times within that half hour. Here EXCESS really means EXCESS. But once again, compare that to how often you feel you urinate regularly.
Excess Hunger: This is less of a symptom in my mind, but if you are eating, again, more than what you regularly were, and you are always craving food even when not hungry this is EXCESS.
Feeling Tired basically comes from you drinking and eating too much and how your body has no way to get rid of that stuff because Diabetics have a hard time getting rid of that sugar in their blood. You are feeling tired because the insulin that most people produce normally, is either not being produced in you at all or there is not enough being produced to break down what you eat, so your bloodsugar rises, and this makes you tired, it can also make you feel sick, you might get headaches, you might get bloated, or get stomach cramps, etc....
In the meantime if you cannot, get to a doctor to get the bloodtest done-(and now you don't need a blood test you can do it by urinating in a cup too), I suggest you go to your local pharmacy and ask the pharmacist to test your blood sugar on a glucometer. A normal bloodsugar range is somewhere between 70 and 100. Anything higher is definitely a sign of diabetes, anything lower you should be careful and get to a doctor because it could be a number of things.
And in the meantime you can also watch what you eat and see if that helps. Cut back on natural sugars that you can find in any food. Carbs, like pasta and bread especially contribute to high bloodsugars. Drink diet sodas and sugar free juices, or limit your regular soda and sugar juices to half of what you currently drink and substitute the rest with diet, sugar free, and water.
I hope this helps a little.
make an appointment with your doctor. take your notes and your questions. have them answered BEFORE you leave the office.
First they do not do an MRI for diabetes testing. If the doctor, after checking you, thinks there is a chance you might have diabetes he will order some bloodwork. It will include what is called a glucose level. It is important that if he tells you not to eat(which he should) before this test that you follow his instructions. If that test comes back high usually over 125 for a healthy adult then he might chose to do one of 2 things. One might be wait a short time and retest you, another is order a glucose tolerance test. For that test, you fast then go to the lab where you will drink a very sweet drink. Then at specific intervals they will take blood samples. They check the glucose level of each sample and that determines if you have diabetes.
Symptoms of diabetes are similar to many other things. Excessive thirst, high urinary output and poor healing are a few.
Here are some things to also consider, are you overweight? Do you eat excessive sweets? Do you have a family history of diabetes? How old are you?
If you have type 2 diabetes chances are you can get it under control with diet and excercise.
Good luck to you!