10 Common Symptoms of Diabetes

However, the majority of individuals with diabetes are not aware they have the condition due to the fact that the symptons, on their own, seem more like annoyances then signs of a dangerous condition. Your best hope is early diagnoses if you want to avoid serious diabetes complications—such as kidney disease, vision problems, and thyroid issues.

Here are the ten most common early warning signs of type 2 diabetes…

1. Numbness

Numbness that starts as a tingling in the hands, fingers, legs, and feet is an early warning sign of diabetes. This occurs due to an increase in blood sugar levels, causing blood vessel restriction to the extremities, and eventually damage to nerve fibers.

2. Increased Urination

Typically, diabetes suffers claim they had an overwhelming urge to urinate, which lead to a diabetes diagnoses.  This increased urination will often result in severe dehydatrtion.

3. Weight Loss

Rapid and unexplained weight loss is common to unmediated type 2 diabetes because the body can’t absorb glucose (sugars) properly.

4. Increase in Appetite

With sudden weight loss often comes an increase in appetite, which might make you feel fortunate at first because you feel like you can eat anything you want without consequences. However, you body is in a diabetic state, robbing your cells of essential energy, which explains the hunger.

5. Blurry Vision

Blurred vision is a common cue of type 2 diabetes. This occurs as glucose levels spike, damaging blood vessels and restricting fluid to the eyes. If a diabetes diagnoses isn’t made, the patient could suffer complete vision loss.

6. Itchy, Dry Skin

When diabetes affects blood circulation, our sweat glands will often become dysfunctional, resulting in dehydrated, flaky, itchy, and irritated skin.

7. Unexplained Fatigue

We’ve already established that insulin resistance leads to an inability to absorb essential energy (sugars). When this occurs, energy levels suffer, causing extreme mental and physical fatigue.

8. Unquenchable Thirst

Increased urge to urinate will leave the body in a state of rapid dehydation. The body will demand that lost liquid be replenished, and an unquenchable thirst will often result.

9. Slow Healing Cuts or Bruises

You might notice that if you suffer a cut or bruise, healing time will take much longer than it normally does.  This is due to high glucose levels weakening the immune system and slowing the rate of healing.

10. Irritated Gums

Often times, type 2 diabetes sufferers notice that their gums become red, swollen, and irritated. They might also literally see the gums receding from the teeth and experience gum infections, and eventually, gum disease as result.

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