Symptoms of Diabetes

  Most common diabetes symptoms:

• Frequent urination:
• Have you been going to the bathroom to urinate more often recently? Do you notice that you spend most of the day going to the toilet? When there is too much glucose (sugar) in your blood you will urinate more often. If your insulin is ineffective, or not there at all, your kidneys cannot filter the glucose back into the blood. The kidneys will take water from your blood in order to dilute the glucose - which in turn fills up your bladder.

• Disproportionate thirst:
• If you are urinating more than usual, you will need to replace that lost liquid. You will be drinking more than usual.
• Intense hunger:
• As the insulin in your blood is not working properly, or is not there at all, and your cells are not getting their energy, your body may react by trying to find more energy - food. You will become hungry.
• Weight gain: This might be the result of the above symptom (intense hunger).
• Unusual weight loss
• This is more common among people with Diabetes Type 1. As your body is not making insulin it will seek out another energy source. Muscle tissue and fat will be broken down for energy. As Type 1 is of a more sudden onset weight loss is more noticeable with Type 1.
• Irritability: 
• Irritability can be due to your lack of energy.
• Blurred vision:
  This can be caused by tissue being pulled from your eye lenses. This affects your eyes' ability to focus. With proper treatment this can be treated. There are severe cases where blindness problems can occur.
• More skin and/or yeast infections:
  When there is more sugar in your body, its ability to recover from infections is affected. Women with diabetes find it especially difficult to recover from bladder and vaginal infections.
• Itchy skin:
  A feeling of itchiness on your skin is sometimes a symptom of diabetes.
• Gums are red and/or swollen - Gums pull away from teeth:
  If your gums are tender, red and/or swollen this could be a sign of diabetes. Your teeth could become loose as the gums pull away from them.
• Numbness or tingling, especially in your feet and hands:
  If there is too much sugar in your body your nerves could become damaged, as could the tiny blood vessels that feed those nerves. You may experience tingling and/or numbness in your hands and feet.
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