Early Signs Of Diabetes And When To Get Tested For Diabetes

What is diabetes?

Diabetes is a long-term (chronic) illness that affects how your body converts food into energy.

The majority of the food you consume is converted by your body into sugar (glucose), which is then released into your circulation. Your pancreas releases insulin when your blood sugar levels rise. In order for blood sugar to enter your body's cells and be used as energy, insulin functions like a key.

3 Types of diabetes:

Type 1 Diabetes: When your body doesn’t make a hormone called Insulin, which causes your body blood glucose sugar level to be too high.

Type 2 Diabetes: It's when the insulin doesn’t work properly and resisting or your  pancreas is not making enough Insulin and your blood sugar level continuing to rise

Gestational diabetes: It's when a pregnant woman's blood sugar levels are too high throughout pregnancy and until pregnancy.

Early signs of Diabetes:

Frequent urination- High blood sugar causes your kidneys to get rid of excess sugar in your blood which will eventually lead you to go to urinate more often then you should.

Thirst- Your kidneys requires more water from all the overtime of expelling blood sugar which causes you to be thirsty more often because your body need enough fluids.

Fatigue- Too much sugar in your blood slows the whole process in which your body gets cleansed of toxins and living you refreshed and ready for the next super cleanse, But with too much sugar your kidneys don’t get to do all the work its suppose to do and be finished in time it works overtime trying to cleanse you of the sugar.

Blurred vision- This is caused due to sugar levels in your blood not being balanced, its obviously going to cause some and most of your organs to not be at its best performance, And in this case its your eye blood vessel led to a swollen lens and causing your vision to be blurry and back to normal as your blood sugar levels lowers down.

Hunger- Your body still does need glucose to keep you going remember?, with your body working so overtime to get rid of the excess sugar in your blood, so much nutrients gets diluted in that process and living you feeling hungry because, wow! Your body works overtime and things are just moving too fast and some getting damaged in the process and needing some repair only food can provide and boost you with energy.

Weight loss- With the amount of glucose your body is losing during to process of expelling sugar from your blood, you lose so much energy and when there is no enough glucose and energy, your body starts to burn the fat to feed itself. Scary, I know.

Slow healing wounds- When your blood vessels have weakened due to the unbalanced sugar levels in your blood, its not so easy for your blood to go through the blood circulation and get the cells to reproduce and give you new skin cells in time. There are delays in your body so your body isn’t functioning the ways its supposed to. 

Numbness on hands and feet- Your nerves requires for your blood sugar levels to be well balanced and not have too high or low sugar on your blood for releasing the right body sensations and at the right time or when triggered

Yeast infections- The kidney cleanses your body and gets rid of the waste through urine. When the urine has too much sugar that makes it easy to trigger vaginal yeast infection due to the unbalanced Ph levels.  

With high blood sugar levels in the body, the immune system becomes suppressed and unable to ward off any bad bacteria, this also applies to mouth and armpit yeast infection in both men and women.

These Symptoms apply to the three the types of Diabetes mentioned above. ( Type 1,2 and gestational Diabetes)

When to get tested for Diabetes| Type 1 and type 2

Type 1

Listen to your gut and be true to yourself. If you are experiencing these signs that indicate that you might be at a risk of diabetes, the best way to be sure is to go your nearest clinic or a doctor and get tested ASAP. Don’t wait  until matters get worse and find yourself on the hospital bed. 

More on Type 1 Diabetes: Type 1 Diabetes: Beyond the Basics

Type 2

• It’s recommend if you are over 44 years you should test for type 2 diabetes.
• If you are between the ages of 16- 44 and are overweight/ obese
• If your a woman who has had gestational diabetes while you were pregnant

More on Type 2 Diabetes: Type 2 Diabetes: Beyond The Basics

Gestational diabetes

 If you experiencing the signs mentioned above while you’re pregnant make sure to get tested.

• All pregnant women who do not have a prior diabetes diagnosis should be tested for gestational diabetes. 
• If you are pregnant, make sure to take a glucose challenge test between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy. 

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DIABETES SYMPTOMS & TESTING

Can Type 2 Diabetes Turn Into Type 1?| Tests to distinguish Type 1 diabetes from Type 2

BY HEALTHY Spell-   AUGUST 19, 2022

To avoid killing you with suspension, the answer is "No" Type 2 diabetes does not turn into Type 1 diabetes.

Here is the break down:

Type 1 and type 2 diabetes, two of the most widely recognized types of diabetes, are really two altogether different circumstances. Type 1 diabetes is an immune system illness, and that implies that the body goes after and attacks the cells in the pancreas which make insulin. 

And  Type 2 diabetes is a state of insulin obstruction. This implies that the body can't utilize own insulin all well; subsequently, glucose levels develop in the circulatory system since insulin isn't taking care of its business or potentially, over the long haul, the pancreas quits making adequate insulin to keep blood glucose at a protected level.

If you ended up in this page because you are genuinely concerned about Type 2 diabetes turning into type 1 diabetes, then I tell you now to stop worrying yourself. The best thing you can do for yourself right now is to get to know your type of diabetes and make sure that you manage it accordingly. 

Although, there are cases of people who've been misdiagnosed with the wrong time of diabetes, like having diabetes type 1 and being misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Saying that this is common would be stretching it, but it happens, And the most responsible thing you can do to be sure of the first diagnosis is to look into this first diagnose and be sure if it's the right one.  First step is to take a test that recognizes Type 1 from Type 2.

Test to distinguish Type 1 diabetes from Type 2

 C-peptide test

A C-peptide test is much of the time used to assist with differentiating between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. With type 1 diabetes, your pancreas makes practically zero insulin, and almost no C-peptide. A low C-peptide level strongly suggests Type 1 diabetes.

With type 2 diabetes, the body makes insulin, however doesn't utilize it well. This can cause C-peptide levels to be higher than typical.

C-peptide test is also used to:

• Find the cause of low blood sugar, also known as hypoglycemia.
• Check if diabetes treatments are working.
• Check on the status of a pancreatic tumor.

Ketones urine test

Ketones are the side-effect framed when the body separates fat for energy, and their presence in the pee firmly recommends Type 1 diabetes.

When to test for Ketones?

• When you are experiencing these diabetes symptoms
• Your glucose is higher than 250 milligrams/deciliter (mg/dl) for two days straight
• You're debilitated or you've been harmed
• You're pregnant

Using these forms of diabetes testing will decrease chances of diabetes misdiagnosis. And also help you  draw up a proper diabetes treatment plan.

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