Doctor Explains Diabetes Signs and Symptoms (High Sugar)

In this video, I will share seven signs that indicate you might have diabetes or high sugar levels. While many people know that being overweight or obese increases the likelihood of Type 2 diabetes, you can still develop it even if you don't eat too many sugary foods.

Picking up on these early symptoms can help you beat diabetes if you act soon enough. Here are the seven symptoms of type 2 diabetes mellitus to pay attention to:

1. Unexplained weight loss: Your body breaks down fat and muscle because the sugar in your blood isn't going inside your cells to be used for energy.
2. Frequent urination: Your body tries to get rid of the extra sugar in your blood. In diabetes, the level of sugar in the blood is abnormally high, so lots of the sugar from the blood ends up in the urine, drawing more water out of your body.
3. Excessive thirst: Diabetes can make you feel very thirsty because you lose a lot of fluids from your body when peeing. Your brain tells you to drink more water to balance things out.
4. Blurred vision: High blood sugar levels can impact the lens in your eye, causing it to swell and resulting in blurry vision.
5. Fatigue: If you have insulin resistance, you can't use the sugar in your blood and push it into your cells efficiently, so the sugar builds up in your blood. We use sugar inside our cells for energy, so less sugar in cells means you're more tired and fatigued.
6. Slow wound healing: Wounds need good blood flow and oxygen to heal quickly. If your blood vessels aren't in peak condition, it slows down the healing process.
7. Itching in the groin/armpits/breasts: High sugar levels can make you more prone to fungal infections, which can cause thrush. These infections grow in moist areas and are more common in diabetics because high sugar levels can cause an overgrowth in them.

0:00 - Brenda's Story
0:36 - Diabetes Sign and Symptom 1: Weightloss
1:35 - Diabetes Sign 2: Peeing more/ urinating more
2:10 - Diabetes symptom 3: Thirsty/drinking more
2:41 - Diabetes sign 4 - blurred vision/visual problems
3:51 - Diabetes symptom 5 - Tiredness or fatigue
4:23 - Diabetes sign 6 - slow healing wounds
5:27 - Diaetes sign 7 - Itch in groin/ armpits/ breasts (thrush infections)
6:09 - Diabetes symptoms in men
6:20 - Diabetes symptoms in women
6:41 - Can you get diabetes without eating too much sugar?

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DISCLAIMER: ** The information in this video is intended to serve as educational information and is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images, and information, contained in this video is for general information purposes only and does not replace a consultation with your own doctor/advanced practice provider. **

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[christinegiminez]

Thank you, this is helpful information. My son who’s in his 40’s found out the hard way. He ended up in ICU. His sugar level was 945. I always thought he was healthy. He’s never had a cold or flu in his entire life. He got Covid 4 weeks ago. After he recovered he remained tired, thirsty, no appetite and frequent urinating. We just thought it was post Covid. Thanks to his doctor his stay was short. Within 24 hrs it was down to 204. He’s now at 128. We were told he was that he didn’t go into diabetic coma.

[doctorkhalid]

A few other symptoms to keep an eye out for - pins and needles, tingling, loss of sensation in fingers or feet. :)
See you on next weeks video!

[KasonMontes]

Thank you, Thank you! This is the BEST and MOST INFORMATION that I have EVER seen on dibetic FOOT CARE!! Not even any of the foot dr's that I have seen have NEVER talked to me in detail about my feet! I am so THANKFUL that on this day that I looked at my phone and saw information!

[lulabee]

I always learn so much from your videos and I appreciate the way you deliver the information which is straightforward easy to understand and the humor that you add is just the bonus part! You are really appreciated. Keep them coming. In the 2 back to back videos that I just watched, I learned so much and know now that I do need to go get a check up, so from the bottom of my heart thank you! 💚🙏

[johngtsang]

EXCELLENT -- Thanks a million : EXCEPT, COMMON Mistake ; Music TOO LOUD -- Music unnecessary ; compare w dr. BERG -- PURELY Informative .

[mollymoo]

Great video, thank you. Love the channel. Would you consider doing a version without the music? I find it very distracting and difficult to hear what you're saying. 😁

[maryp]

Love your videos, you share so much info which is good to know

[kittybala]

Great video with fantastic information

[cindyhoomalu]

I have (cystic fibrosis related) diabetes, and after some trauma in my married life I decided that I would stop insulin to lose weight. I now have almost all of these symptoms, but when I try to start back I see that scale tipping up too fast so I stop. I don’t know how to make myself better.