What physical problems were you having when you first found out you had diabetes?

Answer 1

My mom is diagnosed with diabetes. She had nose bleeding and one day she fainted. On testing her blood the doctor said she had diabetes. Her level at that time was 324. My aunt had sever itching on her body. She was also diagnosed with it. My uncle was doing a routine check up and he came to know.

My mom and aunt controlled their sugar level with medicines and they made dietary changes. Apart from that they drink every morning a big glass of warm fenugreek seeds water. They boil 2 teaspoon of fenugreek seeds in one big glass of water at night and drink it in the morning. Today, they both have stopped mediction and are just taking the fenugreek water and controlling their diets.

My uncle though never took care and now is suffereing from diabetic macular edema.

Answer 2

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Answer 4

I have just been told I am diabetic. I did not know I had it. I had to give a urine sample before minor surgery and this was the first indication when I was told I had excess sugar in my urine. Following a couple of blood tests it was confirmed. I found I was going to the loo more often and feeling thirstier than normal. Other than this I had no effects. I now have to go the doctors once a month for 3 months and then another blood test will be taken. If it has not improved it may mean going on medication but for the time being it is just a question of watching my diet and trying to lose some weight although I am only slightly over weight.

Answer 5

I was in Disney World with my family, and one day there I felt really sick. I think I had a fever. I didn't know then, but the way I was feeling (minus the fever) was symptoms of high blood sugar (tired, cranky, very lethargic, like everything had slowed down, headache). I've had that feeling too many times since! I was later told by the doctor that the fever was from a virus that can start type 1 Diabetes. On the way home from Florida, I was drinking/going to the bathroom constantly. This kept up after I got home (drinking one glass after another, getting up to go to the bathroom 3-4 times during the night), so my mom got worried and took me to the doctor. Luckily they caught it early, my blood sugar was 320. The rest is history...

Answer 6

I had excessive thirst really bad. Nothing would quench it, I drank anything and everything I could. Along with that I of course had excessive urination.

What about you? What physical problems were you having when you first found out you had diabetes?

Answer 7

For me it was a tingling in my toes, and the sensation that they were icy cold all the time even though they were warm to the touch. There was a constant thirst and the need to drink enormous quantities of liquids. And of course there was this never ending feeling of total exhaustion and absolutely no energy. Oh yes, when ever I would get a small wound or a cut on my body, they would never seem to heal.

What I cannot understand is that my occupation required me to have a physical examination every year, but the diabetes never showed up in my urinalysis.

Answer 8

Starving for junk food constantly
Drink litres of Fizzy Juice a day
Frequent Urination
Drastic weight loss
Absolutely Knackered
Blurred vision

Answer 9

Excessive thirst
Hungry all the time
Rapid weight loss from 180 to 132
Blurred vision
Headaches
Legs Hurt

Answer 10

When i was first diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, I had lost a lot of weight, (I got down to about 40 lbs) I was constantly thirsty, I felt really sore (like i had just lifted weights), I was tired, my eye sight had started to decrease, and after eating I would shake uncontrollable almost like a seizure.