High blood sugar symptoms can be sign of diabetes, a serious condition, that - if not treated - can lead to devastating consequences to your health, including kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, blindness, and diabetic coma.
However, the most common symptom of high blood sugar is having no symptoms at all! Which is why many people are living with diabetes without knowing about it!
Because of this fact, it's very important that you test your blood glucose levels on a regular basis using a blood glucose analyzer and also to be aware of the following high blood sugar symptoms.
But first, let me explain what it means to have "high blood sugar" or hyperglycemia. One is considered to have hyperglycemia, when one's blood glucose level elevates and stays elevated above the normal levels. Normal glucose levels are between 70 and 150 mg/dL. Levels typically are lower in the morning, when you wake up after a whole night of fasting, and increase after meals.
Levels rising consistently above 150 mg/dL are indicative of hyperglycemia.
If your blood glucose level is too high, you may experience the following symptoms:
- Increased thirst- it seams that you are always thirsty
- Frequent urination - you constantly have to go to the bathroom
- Dry mouth
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Shortness of breath
- Extreme fatigue, feeling weak and tired
- Difficulty concentrating
- Blurred vision
- Slower healing of wounds
- Unexplained weight loss
- Frequent yeast infections
- Blood sugar higher than 180 mg/dL
It is important to know that not everyone with high blood glucose levels will experience the exact same symptoms. If your symptoms are not severe, you may feel normal and not think that may you have high blood sugar. Also, your symptoms can be very mild or develop at an extremely slow pace. Some people do not experience any symptoms at all. That is why it is important to pay attention to your body, and have blood sugar levels checked periodically.
The good news is that while diabetes is a serious and potentially devastating disease, it is also highly preventable. Even if you already have it, you can control the symptoms or reverse the disease entirely, with a few simple changes to your lifestyle. Because diabetes is caused mainly by poor diet choices, lack of or insufficient physical activity, and stress; simply by improving your diet, exercising, and eliminating stress from your life, can have a profound effect for your health!
What is important that in most cases IT IS POSSIBLE to reverse type 2 diabetes because the disease is largely influenced by the person's lifestyle choices, most importantly dietary choices and physical activity/exercise.
If you have any of the symptoms listed above, DO NOT wait until it is too late!
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