How to tell you’re (becoming) a diabetic
January 28, 2007
Full-blown diabetes is easy to spot: frequent, uncontrollable urges to urinate; virtually unquenchable thirst; numbness in your hands and feet.
But the symptoms leading up to the full-blown disease are easily ignored. And ignorance isn’t bliss; it’s amputation—or death.
Here are the top 4 silent alarms:
1. You feel sleepy right after a meal. If your body gets flooded with sugar it can’t process, it’ll stage a sort of rolling blackout. It will pull energy from other systems to marshal the resources needed to pump out the extra sugar.
2. Your vision has become a little blurry. When too much sugar crowds into your bloodstream, it can cause the lenses in your eyes to stretch, resulting in blurred vision. Watch for headaches after reading or doing paperwork.
3. Your blood pressure is higher than usual. It’s hard to tell which comes first, the diabetes or the high blood pressure. But it seems that even slightly higher-than-normal blood-pressure levels are related to insulin resistance.
4. Your breath constantly smells like nail-polish remover. Without enough insulin to turn carbohydrates into energy, your liver will begin to break down fat for fuel. “Acetone breath” is one by-product of fat combustion
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