How can you tell if you have diabetes? The most common early symptoms are from higher-than-normal levels of glucose, a kind of sugar, in your blood. The warning signs can be so mild that you don’t even notice them, especially with type 2 diabetes. Some people don’t find out they have it until they get problems from long-term damage caused by the disease. With type 1 diabetes, the symptoms happen faster, in a matter of days or a few weeks and they are severe, too. Both type 1 and type 2 have some of the same warning signs: hunger and fatigue, urinating more often and being thirstier, dry mouth and itchy skin, and blurred vision. Additionally, the symptoms of type 2 diabetes may include areas of darkened skin, usually in the neck or armpits, numbness or tingling in the hands or feet, slow healing sores, frequent infections, and sudden weight loss.

Type 1 diabetes occurs when your immune system, which is the body’s system for fighting infection, attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. Scientists suggest that type 1 diabetes is caused by genes and environmental factors, like with viruses, that could trigger the disease. Type 2 diabetes is the most common and is caused by a number of factors, which include being overweight, obese, and physically inactive, genes, family history, and insulin resistance.

Knowing if you have diabetes is not something you can just do at home, so you will need to get a check-up and laboratory tests. If your tests come back and you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, then your doctor may offer a diabetes management program that may involve a combination of medication, diet, and exercise routine. In the event you have type 1 diabetes, insulin therapy might be used to help treat your condition.

A doctor is your best resource if you are a diabetic. They can help advise you on all the right things you need to do in order to treat it, whether it be type 1 or type 2. Again, diet, exercise, and medications will all play a role in the treatment and you will always need to follow your doctor’s suggestions to live a healthier life.
 
If you have a history of diabetes in your family, or you are showing symptoms of diabetes, then we encourage you to contact us and book an appointment through our website. We are open 5 days a week. Most of all, we care about your health needs and are here to provide the best healthcare for you and your family. Our physicians are fully capable of providing you or anyone in your family with any physical you need, and we can network with other medical professionals like your family doctor if we need to. Give us a call today at the Medical Office of Katy in Texas. We serve patients from Katy TX, Park Row TX, Cinco Ranch TX, Brookshire TX, Pittsville TX and Mission Bend TX

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