Diabetes Early Signs

Diabetes is an insidious disease that's reaching near epidemic proportions here in the united states of America in the twenty first century. Doctors and scientists attribute a confluence of factors to this event, most notably an increase in the intake of processed sugar (high fructose corn syrup in particuarly) and a lamentably sedentary lifestyle. So if you're looking for diabetes early signs, you'll want to look there first. Before you start showing any symptoms at all, you can take a good, hard look at your diet and lifestyle and see diabetes early signs for yourself.

If, however, it's too late and the disease is already upon you, then there are some diabetes early signs you can look for and find with relative ease.

First, you should note how often you use the bathroom. If you're visiting it more - much more, actually - then you may have early onset diabetes. You'll urinate all the time when you have too much glucose in the blood (which is what diabetes actually is - a build up of glucose in the bloodstream and a lack of glucose in your body's cells. Type 2 diabetes is the more common type, though the end result is the same).

The reason your peeing all the time is one of diabetes early signs is that your kidneys can't get glucose back to your blood if your insulin doesn't work properly. Your kidneys respond by leeching extra water out of your bloodstream in an effort to dilute the glucose, thereby keeping your bladder full and sending you to the bathroom all the time.

A secondary diabetes early signs related to this is that you'll always be thirsty because you'll always be dehydrated. This is part and parcel of the first of the diabetes early signs mentioned above. Be aware, though, that this unquenchable thirst happens much more rapidly and is more pronounced with Type 1 diabetes (where your insulin producing cells are actually destroyed) than in Type 2 (where your insulin producing cells are ineffective or impeded).

So on top of peeing all the time and your unquenchable thirs, you'll also be pooped. This is because glucose is what gives us our energy, and if you've got no insulin to help transition it to your cells, then you'll get no energy. You'll end up being tired, a veritable slug, nearly all the time.

There are other, lesser diabetes early signs such as numbness in your extremities, blurred vision, and dry skin. Keep an eye out for any or all of them, and make sure to eat a proper diet and see your doctor!