Breaking News – You Have Diabetes Symptoms and You Are Diabetic. What’s Next?

First, you feel that the diabetes symptoms are present in you. Then you go into screening and the doctor confirms that you are diabetic. Is your death near? Can life still go on normally?

The occurrence of diabetes

Diabetes happens when sugar builds up in your blood instead of going to the cells. Diabetes symptoms begin to show up. You become diabetic when your body has insulin deficiency. Insulin is a hormone that processes the glucose so they enter to your body and can be utilized as energy. The pancreas is responsible for producing insulin.

Thus, diabetes happens for many reasons: malfunctioning of the pancreas, much sugar intake, genetics or the body cells ignore the insulin. Worse, excess sugar in blood leads to serious problems like damage of the nerves, kidneys and heart.

Diabetes symptoms showing up

These are the signs that you have diabetes: extreme thirst, extreme hunger, frequent urination, sores or bruises heal slowly. That’s it! You have these diabetes symptoms. You are diabetic. You have all these signs plus dry itchy skin, unexplained weight loss, blurry vision, unusual tiredness or drowsiness, tingling or numbness in the hands or feet, frequent or recurring skin, gum, bladder or genital yeast infections.

People who are mostly at risk of diabetes are those: more than 45 years of age, overweight, don’t exercise regularly, diabetes runs in the family, gain diabetes during pregnancy and you are an African American, Hispanic American/Latino, Native American, Asian American or Pacific Islander.

Now that you have diabetes, what’s next?

Well, having diabetes is not the end of the world. Be calm. Live a normal life but make it a point to watch over your diet and lifestyle. With those diabetes symptoms present and you being diabetic, there is nothing to fear. Nobody died of diabetes alone, but with the complications it brings.

Ask your doctor’s advice. Love yourself more. Research on the food and lifestyle a diabetic person must follow. Be part of diabetic websites and forums like this website diabetes.com.sg to stay updated.