Diabetes is a serious medical condition that requires treatment. Diabetes is often undiagnosed. Early detection of diabetes can dramatically decrease the chance of developing complications of diabetes.

Know the Symptoms...

• Frequent urination
• Excessive thirst
• Extreme hunger
• Unusual weight loss
• Increased fatigue
• Irritability
• Blurry vision

Please note that not everyone with diabetes will have all of these symptoms. There are well-defined Diabetes Risk Factors. Many people with Type 2 diabetes will not experience any of the symptoms at all- making diabetes a silent disease.

The classic symptom of constant hunger frequently is causes by the fact that the  diabetic can not effectively utilize glucose as source of energy. The glucose is circulating in the blood, but the cells can't absorb it to use it as a fuel. The excess blood sugar molecules also "spill" into the urine, meaning that as the blood filters through the kidneys, some of the sugar comes out of the blood and is not reabsorbed. The extra sugar which is now in the urine causes water molecules to follow (a normal physics principle) and therefore the diabetic urinates frequently (the second classic symptom of diabetes). This obviously leads to the third classic symptom which is frequently being thirsty. The body can sense that excess water is being lost because of the frequent urinating and the normal response is to become thirsty.