![]() Red Flag : You find yourself too weak to do everyday activities you were able to do with ease before or you feel exhausted after eating a meal. “If you are feeling like you can’t keep your eyes open after a meal, it might be a sign that your body is struggling with high blood sugar.” This can leave feeling weak and fatigued. When sugar cannot get into your cells to energize them, your kidneys have to work overtime to remove the extra sugar. Red Flag : You find yourself eating more times a day than usual or experience extreme hunger even after a meal. When blood sugar isn’t properly regulated it sends conflicting messages to your brain about the need for food. Red Flag : You feel thirsty after drinking water. If you’re drinking more than 4 liters (about a gallon) per day and water isn’t quenching your thirst, this could be due to high blood sugar. Red Flag : Frequent trips to the bathroom even when you limit water intake and caffeine in the evening. If you’re still getting up multiple times to go the bathroom at night, that may be a sign that something else is going on,” says Katherine Bergamo RN, MSN, FNP-C, a nurse practitioner with the UNC Diabetes and Endocrinology Clinic. and not having caffeinated beverages after 5 p.m. “If you are urinating more that one to two times overnight, try not drinking after 7 p.m. Keep in mind that drinking a lot of water, especially in the evening, may be why you’re urinating so often. If you are making more trips to the bathroom, especially waking multiple times at night to go, it may be a sign that your kidneys are working overtime to flush out excess sugar in your blood. Most people urinate four to seven times in a day. Diabetes has plenty of early signs, but some symptoms are subtle. Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all diabetes cases. Additionally, 1.5 million Americans are newly diagnosed each year. More than 30 million Americans have diabetes, including 7.2 million that are undiagnosed. ![]()
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