Symptoms Of Pre-Diabetes, Easy to Miss?
Pre, means before something, and pre-diabetes means what is happening prior to the time you get diabetes. And, of course, we are speaking of type two diabetes, the most prevalent type. This is the time when your blood sugar is above normal, but not yet on the level of a diabetic. This would be the time when you would expect symptoms of pre-diabetes.
Can an elevated blood sugar level generate any pre-diabetic symptoms? Let’s take a closer look at pre or borderline diabetes and see. You would think the best advice for anyone at this time would be to stay alert for any symptoms, and have your blood sugar checked immediately if any symptom appears.
My first point will probably amaze most of you. Officially. the symptoms of prediabetes do not exist. That’s right, there are none. As you sit there reading this you could be succumbing to diabetes hour after hour and never know it.
Now, to the next point, some doctors, not all of them, believe that pre-diabetes is actually a phase of diabetes and suggest instituting aggressive treatment the moment it is detected. But since many pre-diabetics do not continue on into diabetes is this approach wise? We have no way of telling which pre-diabetics will eventually become diabetic, and which won’t.
Another point, the controversy over the best course to prescribe for an individual with pre-diabetes has not been unsettled either, so you can expect to see scientists pumping out new research in this area.
With no known symptoms of pre-diabetes to warn us we need to take the available actions: first off, compare yourself to the precursors of diabetes: overweight, high blood pressure, junk food junkie, etc. Secondly we can use the official way, and really the only way to know for sure: check our blood sugar to see if it’s above normal, but has not reached the diabetic range
Say you are pre-diabetic, that makes you more vulnerable to becoming diabetic than the average person. That means If you don’t act to reverse it now, you are going to be a diabetic, a condition for which there is no cure, and a condition that, once it gets it’s iron grip on you will cost you a leg or two.
Pre-diabetics do not all become diabetic, it is correct to say, but ignoring the worst out come possibilities is a gamble. You never know whether or not you’ve won your bet until it’s too late.
Even though there are no symptoms of pre-diabetes to alert you, if you are overweight or have a history in the family of diabetes, then see you doctor periodically for a blood test.
New to the thought of having symptoms of pre-diabetes? To explore it in depth go to symptoms of pre-diabetes here #1
