Early Symptoms of Diabetes

Diabetes is metabolism related disorder. Metabolism is the way how our body use digested foods for promotion of growth and production of energy. In diabetes glucose cannot enter the cells causing discrepancy in metabolic order.

There are three types of diabetes type I, type II, and gestational diabetes; however, early symptoms for all these diabetes are same as all the forms of diabetes exist because in all cases the lack of insulin or insulin resistance causes the disease.

The patients of diabetes may experience different signs; some of the symptoms are felt in the initial stage and some of the symptoms are felt in later stage of the disease. The early symptoms of diabetes are discussed and narrated here with outline details.

The patients of diabetes may experience the problem of polyuria; polyuria is the increased urge of passing urine which initiates passing large quantity of urine in day time. The intensity of urge gets increased in the night time.

The patients of diabetes feel unusual thirst because the body requires replacing the lost fluid due to increased urge of urine. The patients of diabetes feel intense urge to drink large quantity of water at little intervals.

The patient being unable to utilize consumed carbohydrates to get energy out of it; therefore, they face unconditional fatigue. In general the diabetic patient feels himself/herself fatigued and exhausted and the energy for work goes down. In most of the cases they start looking pale and start suffering from anemia in some instances.

Diabetic patients may feel extreme intensity of hunger which is medically termed as polyphagia. Diabetic patients, at initial stage prefer to eat large quantity of meal in short intervals but tend to lose gradually their strength and body weight.

Women at the initial stage of this life time disease faces vaginal itching due to vaginal candidiasis. Due to hyperglycemia they became sensitive and susceptible to different bacterial and types of fungal infection.

Developing frequent skin sores are one of the initial symptoms for diabetes. If there is any wound, it takes lengthy time in healing due to sugar in blood. Diabetic patients may feel numbness in legs and hands.

Nausea, urge to vomit, blurred vision, dry mouth syndrome, oral cavities, severe headache, and intense pain all through the body are the symptoms felt by diabetic patients at the initial stage of their disease.