How will you know if you have diabetes if you do not get checked up?

Question

Hello thank you for reading my question and trying to help me.

My question is...Let's say I had diabetes but did not know. Let's say I started to have diabetes starting 2 months ago and I just don't have a clue. If I dont get blood work because I think I am fine.

Basically what will happen to you if you have diabetes and do not know about them? Like will I have a heart attack or pass out then I go to doctor they take blood work and find out? Or what happens to you if you have diabetes and did not know you have them?

Thank you very much

Answer 1

This is the biggest concern with people out there who don't know until it is too late. You will be at increased risk for a number of things - kidney failure, high cholesterol and triglycerides (leading to heart attack, stroke and arteriosclerosis), peripheral neuropathy, changes in vision, changes in kidney function and the like.
All too often the diagnosis is made when there is end organ trouble of some kind.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Excessive thirst, frequent urination are common symptoms of untreated diabetes. Failure to achieve or maintain an erection is often a signal that a man has undiagnosed diabetes. Eventually, diabetes can lead to kidney trouble, blindness, poor circulation (which might make amputation necessary). Fortunately, it can be treated now, so make an appointment with your doctor and find out.

Losing weight and exercising can reduce the effects of diabetes or even prevent it from occurring.

For example, about seven years ago, I was overweight. I lost over 100 lbs., and I have kept the weight off since then. My blood sugar level, which was borderline diabetic, dropped to normal ranges.

Answer 4

You may have it, not know it and carry on for a good while (months, years). But one day the symptoms really show up (extremely dry throat all the time and you're always going to the can to urinate). Then it's time to see the doc and take the medecine because not taking care of it means - in the long term - possibly going blind and possibly losing toes, feet and parts of your legs due to gangrene. Diabetes is not a joke.

Answer 5

Over a period of time, raised blood sugar levels cause you to develop complications. You've obviously heard about heart attacks, but there are quite a few other complications that can result ... neuropathy (nerve ending damage) (this is broken down into two distinct types, peripheral neuropathy, which generally affects your extremities ... hands and feet, whereby you can have numbness (lack of sensation) or pain. Autonomic neuropathy affects such things as heart rate, blood pressure control, temperature control, digestion, sexual function, bowel and bladder function.

Retinopathy affects the eyes ... specifically the retina, where new blood vessels push through the retina and are usually treated with laser to prevent multiple 'blind spots' from appearing.

Risk of stroke, which can result in brain malfunction due to blood supply being deprived.

Hypertension (high blood pressure), usually due to a build up of cholesterol within the blood vessels.

If you believe you may be suffering with diabetes, my advice would be to get it checked out now. Once diabetes is under control, this prevents, or defers the onset of any of these complications.

You say that if you had diabetes for two months without knowing about it and didn't get it checked out because you thought you were fine indicates to me that you are more likely to be suffering with type 2 diabetes. This is where your body builds up resistance to the effects of insulin, meaning that your body's cells can't utilise the sugar (glucose) within your blood stream to make energy. There are tablets that make your body more insulin sensitive, which helps you to overcome this, though later transfer to insulin injections is always a possibility as your pancreas produces less and less insulin.

Sadly, type 2 diabetes often goes unnoticed, and is usually picked up when blood is being checked for another reason. This is due to the onset being comparatively slow.

In type 1 diabetes, the onset is much more acute (happens quickly). The pancreas is attacked by your own autoimmune system, and the islets of Langerhans are destroyed. These are the islets that produce insulin. Without insulin your body quickly becomes overloaded with sugar. To get rid of this excess sugar, you'll find that you need to pee frequently. This, in turn, makes you dehydrated so you have to resort to drinking much more than you would otherwise have done.

Type 1 diabetics need insulin to survive, meaning that this type of diabetic NEEDS to inject insulin to stay alive.

This does NOT mean that one type of diabetes is more severe than the other. It simply means that there are different types of treatment. Both types of diabetic can go on to develop complications if they're blood sugar levels are out of control.

There are other complications than the ones that I mentioned at the beginning of this post, but I may well have frightened you more than you were expecting already so I won't say more.

If you do suspect that you have diabetes, my advice to you would be to get checked over by your doctor ... sooner rather than later.

Answer 6

if you are a diabetic,you would have a hell of an increase,in how thirsty you are and i mean all the time,you will also lose weight,and your urine output would also increase.If you decide not to do any thing about it then you could end up in a diabetic coma if not treated you could die.A blood test or urine test is the only way to find out go to your gp

Answer 7

I'm Diabetic, Type One. Which means i just got it because i did, not because im overweight but...
You will KNOW when something is wrong.

You have to go to the bathroom ALOT, you get super thirsty, and you get like more sweaty.

If you dont do something about it, You can go into a Diabetic Coma. And you could get kidney failer.

Answer 8

I'm not sure what happens if you have diabetes and do not get it treated. I doubt anything serious would occur right away, but in time it could be dangerous.

The symptoms I know of diabetes are urinating very often, tiredness, and loss of weight. If those things are happening to you, you should get it checked out.

Answer 9

You would find out very quickly when you ended up in the ER with a life-threatening case of diabetic ketoacidosis.

And that's only the start of it...

EMT

Answer 10

you generally have to have blood work for that or some reason that you had this tested. if you feel bad nearly like you have a flu and you go to doctor and you are dizzy and high fever and weak and stuff that is what happened to me and they took blood and did find outi am not sure if it was high or not. but then again i guess my symptoms were what that doctor looked at not sure but you will get sick if its too high i guess anyhow thaat is all iknow