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A condition which develops when your body is unable to produce the energy it needs from the food you consume, Diabetes is characterized by incessantly high levels of glucose in your blood stream. This disease may arise, either because your body is incapable of producing the insulin it needs to metabolize glucose, or if the cells of your body become resistant to the insulin your pancreas produces. Irrespective of the reason which underlies the disease, the resultant high blood glucose levels bring about a number of complications, some of which may even result in death. While diabetes is certainly not a disease you can ‘feel mounting on to you’, there are certain symptoms which precede this disease, before it takes root in the individual’s body and control on his life.

The first and most common indicator is the tendency to urinate a lot more than you are accustomed to, even though you aren’t drinking any more water than usual. This may be a sign of high glucose levels in your blood that your kidney is trying to filter out. As the glucose in your body is redundant, given the impaired performance of insulin, your body has to purge it out, which it tries to do by diluting the sugar with large amounts of water, which is then discarded via your kidneys.

The excessively high amounts of urine your body produces, depletes the fluid content in your body, making it parched and dehydrated. And so, you will feel a lot more thirsty than usual, forcing you to drink large quantities of water, which diabetes expels from your body as urine. This pattern of thirst and urination continues, and becomes increasingly severe as diabetes develops into its secondary phases.

When your body’s glucose utilizing capacity decreases, the cells in your body are starved of the energy they depend on the glucose for. And hence, even though you aren’t eating any less than you are accustomed to, you will still find that you feel lightheaded, faint and giddy. Although this is one of the most easily discernable signs of diabetes, this is also the most easily misunderstood. Many people account this weakness to fatigue and try to rest it away, which lets the disease continue on its silent path.

The rising glucose levels in your body affect your nervous system, causing gradual numbness at first, and then a complete loss of sensation as the blood glucose levels continue to escalate. This condition, which is termed as Diabetic Neuropathy, is particularly discernable in your fingertips and your feet.

Diabetes is also responsible for hindering the circulation of blood in your body, because of the thickening of veins it brings about. And so, any cuts and wounds on your body will take a lot longer to heal and will also be particularly prone to infection. The latter is caused by the high blood glucose levels, which are fertile breeding ground for bacteria and fungi, which bring about a number of skin infections and allergies.

These conditions, which are collectively termed as Pre-Diabetes, are unpredictable in terms of how rapidly they develop into full-blown diabetes. In certain individuals, the pre-diabetic phase lasts for years, culminating into diabetes only once the individual is well into his middle, or later years. In some others, the pre-diabetic phase can last for as little as a couple of months before diabetes sets in, with its own host of complications. If you find that you have been experiencing any such symptoms, don’t wait for them to become more exacerbated before you contact your physician. If well-controlled, pre-diabetes can remain in its nascent phases all your life and never pose an intimidating threat for you to cow away from. Open your mind to diabetes today refusing to do so may only make you one of its next victims!