10 silent signs that you have diabetes

These are some indicators that you could have diabetes that you should know, always going to the doctor for a diagnosis if you see that you meet several and that is repeated in time.

Obviously, if one day you wake up with more hunger and thirst than usual or go to the bathroom a lot, you should not worry. However, it is important that if you see that the main symptoms of diabetes recur over time, ask for a doctor’s appointment. It is very common that in the early or middle stages of this disease many people do not know that they suffer from it and therefore, take longer to receive the diagnosis and the appropriate treatment.

The WHO defines diabetes as a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body does not efficiently use the insulin it produces. The effect of uncontrolled diabetes is hyperglycemia, a term that designates an increase in blood sugar. Type 1 is characterized by the absence of insulin synthesis and types 2 due to the inability of the body to use insulin efficiently, often as a result of excess weight or physical inactivity.

The more time you spend without knowing that you have diabetes and without controlling it, the higher the risk of heart disease, kidney disease, amputation, blindness, and other serious complications. If you have a family history or overweight you should pay special attention and make more regular blood tests.

Next, we review ten symptoms that indicate that you may have diabetes.

10 symptoms that may indicate that you have diabetes

• You go to the bathroom more often:  When you have diabetes, your body becomes less efficient at breaking down food into sugar, so you have more glucose in your bloodstream and go to the bathroom more often. It sharpens your attention if you have to get up to pee several times at night.
• You are thirstier than usual: Urinating a lot will also make you feel dry. A common symptom is the use of beverages such as juices, soft drinks or chocolate milk to quench thirst, which leads to a vicious circle.
• You have lost weight: The loss of weight comes from a part of the water that is lost when urinating and from the imbalance that implies not absorbing all the calories of the sugar in the blood
• You feel unstable and hungry: The urgent need to consume carbohydrates is frequent. When you have a high blood sugar level, your body has a problem regulating glucose. By eating foods high in carbohydrates, the body shoots too much insulin and the glucose plummets, making you feel hungry again.
• You are tired all the time: Continuous fatigue – not sporadic – is an important symptom to pay attention to, as this could mean that cells are not breaking down and using food for energy as is appropriate.
• Grumpy and grumpy: The bad temper appears when the blood sugar is out of control, with symptoms similar to depression. “Many people feel no desire to go out or do anything, just wanting to sleep and experiencing reluctance, anger, and a low mood.
• Blurred vision: Do not confuse with diabetic retinopathy, where blood vessels in the back of the eye are destroyed. In the early stages of diabetes, the eye lens does not focus well because glucose builds up in the eye, which temporarily changes its shape.  In about six to eight weeks after diagnosis and stabilization of blood sugar levels this problem adjusts.
• Slow scars: If your cuts and scrapes heal more slowly, you may be faced with an early symptom of diabetes, because the immune system and the processes that help the body heal do not work as well when sugar levels are high.
• Numbness in the feet: Slight damage to the nerves of early diabetes can cause this problem.
• More prone to urinary tract infections: Higher levels of sugar in the urine and genitals can become a breeding ground for the bacteria and fungi that cause these infections. 

Source | Reader’s Digest