High Blood Sugar Symptomsor HYPERGLYCEMIAHigh blood sugar symptoms commonly show up as the three poly's: You're starving, thirsty AND you need to pee AGAIN!
Or if you wanna talk medically:
Excessive eating, drinking and peeing are usually signs your blood glucose levels are too high.
This is a problem for anyone at the best of times, but feeling constantly hungry is a nightmare for people with diabetes.
If you've got Type 2 or insulin resistance, there's a probability you're trying to cut down on your weight. So, being hungry just seems to be the world's cruel way of mocking all your efforts. And, let's face it, who's ever starving for a stick of celery?
So polyphagia usually compels you to eat loads and loads of nice, filling food, probably high in sugar and/or carbs. This causes high blood sugar, which causes more hunger, which goes on and on and on in this cycle.
The important thing is this: don't feel like you're a pig or a glutton. Tell your diabetes nurse and get them to help you return to a normal blood glucose level. This may involve a shift in your tablets or even introducing insulin into your treatment regime, but when your sugars are back to normal, you have a fighting chance of curbing that appetite.
Excessive thirst: you've just had your third glass of water and you still feel like you've cleaned out the hoover with your tongue. That thirst is relentless, it just won't go away. Not only that, but you think you're causing yourself to wee too much by drinking all this fluid. That's not necessarily the case. Your body is telling you to address the imbalance of components in the blood: it's trying to dilute the sugar solution that is your blood right now. This is one of the most common of high blood sugar symptoms. See FREQUENT PEEING for more info. Disabling tiredness. Sometimes you can feel like you've had no sleep for days. Your entire body is knackered and you just want to sleep. This is another sign of hyperglycaemia.
Another common symptom of high blood sugar levels is blurred vision. This is caused by the lens in the eye warping, morphing and changing shape. Why? Well, sugar pulls water to it. When there's sugar everywhere, water is drawn to it. The lens is no exception. So, when you're trying to look through a lens that has changed shape, it's like wearing someone else's glasses: things look blurry. Itchy genitals are very common, too. Recurring infections are a common problem. Often, the problems lie with yeast growths. There's a whole page on itchy genitals here. General itchiness all over, especially at night, though, is a sign of kidney involvement. I've you've got that, it may be an idea to go and get yourself down for a few tests. Erectile dysfunction, or impotence, is one of the complications of peripheral neuropathy, which is caused, in part by high blood sugar. Here's more detail on that problem. Cuts don't heal properly or as fast as they should. Usually, proteins in the skin react in a certain way to heal a wound. If there's a cut, they gather around the edges and then close in over the gap, form a nice scab and, hey presto, it's happy days from there.
In diabetes, however, these proteins don't work in the same way. The proteins cluster around the edge of the wound, but rather than closing the gap, they cluster upwards, forming a little mound around the cut instead. I have no idea why this happens.
Other causes for slowly-healing cuts are poor circulation. Cuts need an adequate blood supply because blood contains the necessary cells vital to the healing process. from high blood sugar symptoms to other symptoms
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