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By Susan M. Callahan, Associate Editor and Featured Columnist
If you are wondering whether you have diabetes, then you
have just joined a long list of Americans. According to the
American Diabetes Association, over 25.8 million Americans
have diabetes. That's over 8.3% of all of us, and includes men,
women and children. Moreover, 7 million of the 25 million of us
who have diabetes don't know we have it. We're walking
around undiagnosed.
How do you know if you have diabetes? What are the signs of
diabetes? First of all, let's state the obvious. If you feel that
you have diabetes, get thee to a doctor. Only a blood test can
put to rest your fears of whether you have diabetes.
Diabetes symptoms vary from person to person. However,
typical symptoms include unusual thirst (also called polydipsia),
needing to urinate frequently, feeling more tired than usual
(without being connected to exercise), gaining or losing weight
(without dieting) and shakiness (related to the plunge in blood
sugar that often accompanies diabetes). These symptoms are
common in the form of diabetes most people have --diabetes
mellitus. Certain other symptoms can appear in a rarer form of
diabetes, called diabetes insipidus.
If your diabetes has progressed far enough you can also
develop nerve damage, which can cause tingling or burning in
your hands or elsewhere in your body, eye damage or
blindness and damage to other organs.
Other common symptoms of diabetes are not well-known.
Diabetes can cause cold hands and cold feet and thickness in
your blood which can lead to circulatory problems.
In addition to the common signs ans symptoms of diabetes
mellitus, we have scoured the medical studies to compile a Top
10 list of symptoms of diabetes that are less well-known:
Top 10 Symptoms of Diabetes You May Not Have Heard Of
1. Diabetes Can Cause Constipation. Did you know that
constipation can be a sign of diabetes? A 1994 study from
Department of Gastroenterology, Heinrich Heine University in
Düsseldorf, Germany found that 22% of patients with Type 2
diabetes reported having constipation, twice more than the
norm. Interestingly, Type 1 diabetes patients did not have
higher than normal incidences of constipation.
2. Diabetes Can Make You Intolerant to the Cold. Always
turning up the thermostat? You may be cold-intolerant, a
common sign of diabetes. Diabetes interferes with the body's
ability to circulate blood. This lowers your core body
temperature, making you feel cold, which in turn makes you
less tolerant of cold rooms. More than 33% of diabetics suffer
from this and others of a cluster of symptoms, according to a
1996 study from The Bowman Gray School of Medicine.
3. Heart Palpitations Can Result from Diabetes. Few people are
aware that diabetes can make your heart race, also known as
palpitations.
4. Diabetes Can Cause Labored Breathing. Having a hard time
catching your breath? This condition is known as "dyspnea"
and often accompanies diabetes.
5. Indigestion Often Comes With Diabetes. Diabetics often
complain of indigestion, according to the 1996 study from
Bowman Gray School of Medicine.
6. Diabetes Can Make Your Vision Blurred. Seeing double or
having blurry vision? Untreated diabetes can attack the nerves
of your eyes and cause blurry vision.
7. Male Impotence. Diabetes can increase a man's risk for
erectile dysfunction. (Read more about the connection between
ED and diabetes.)
8. Forgetfulness. Ever heard of the "sugar fog"? Scientists
have found that untreated diabetes can make you forgetful.
(Read more about why you may be forgetting more things
these days.)
9. Hyper-Cholesterol Results from Diabetes. As though
diabetes weren't enough, it can also lead to a condition known
as "hypercholesterolemia", super-high cholesterol readings.
10. Diabetes Can Make Your Skin Tingle. The sensation that
your skin is being pricked by needles or tingling is called
"paresthesia" and it often occurs in diabetes.
Update:
11. Vaginal Discharge. In some cases, women with diabetes
have increased vaginal discharge.
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