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Diabetes affects more than twenty million Americans each year. While it is a disease that is ongoing and lasts a lifetime, many people, namely those that have Type 2 diabetes are completely unaware that they even have the disease in the first place. The symptoms to be aware of are issues with weight loss, fatigue, blurred vision, hunger, excessive thirst, numerous trips to the bathroom, and hunger.
As in the matter of type 1 diabetes, the most prevailing symptoms that make up this disease are characterised by continued loss of weight even with an increase in appetite, nausea, acceleration in thirst, vomiting, urination on a more frequent than normal basis, and fatigue. Because type 1 diabetes is a disease that builds very slowly over the course of time, it is many times only found when the patient develops symptoms that require an emergency room visit.
Type 2 diabetes is somewhat more difficult to identify in people that are carrying the disease because in many situations, those who actually have it are not even aware that they have it. Unlike type 1 diabetes, this category of diabetes is one the evolves much slower and those that are with a higher level of blood sure exhibit and suffer no symptomatic effects what so ever. This is not to say that there aren’t symptoms or signs to watch for that may indicate further investigation. People who experience an increase in visits to the bathroom for urination, experience blurred vision, find themselves easily fatigued or fatigued on an ongoing basis, find themselves more frequently thirsty or even hungrier than usual may want to consider getting themselves tested for the possibility of type 2 diabetes or diabetes in general.
So, as we’ve discovered, a large population of Americans are affected by this debilitating, and chronic disease and in many situations, many people are carrying on with their day to day lives obliquely unaware that they have the disease and likely not likely to find out that they have it unless for some reason emergency treatment for a sudden health concern arises. So, be aware of your body!
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