Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms that You Should Know

Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic anarchy in which the body does not respond to the possessions of the hormone insulin. It’s also known as insulin resistance. In addition to this, some people with type 2 diabetes also may not generate sufficient amounts of insulin in the pancreas.

The role of insulin is to assist movement of sugar (glucose) from the bloodstream into the body's cells, where it’s used for energy. Insulin also helps the liver to store surplus glucose. When the body cannot process and use glucose appropriately, the body's cells do not get the energy they need. Medically, this is known as incapability to metabolize glucose, which results in a peculiarly high level of glucose in the blood, called hyperglycemia.

Type 2 diabetes often develops gradually from a condition called prediabetes, and symptoms may not appear for years. Symptoms can comprise of excessive thirst, which develops because of hyperglycemia, or high levels of glucose in the blood, it acts as a sponge to pull fluid out of the body's tissues. This leads to sunstroke and extreme thirst as well as repeated urination. This pulls fluid away from the eyes, resulting in blurred vision.

As the body's cells aren't able to get the glucose they need for energy, people with type 2 diabetes may feel tired and weary. Without the appropriate energy supply for the cells, people with type 2 diabetes may feel very hungry, and weight loss may effect because the body has to use other sources for energy, such as burning muscle and fat supplies. High level of sugar in the blood makes it more difficult for the body to defy and fight infection and to heal, resulting in recurrent infections, especially skin infections and open, slow healing sores.

High amount of glucose in the blood can also pilot to coma, hyperosmolar hyperglycemic nonketotic syndrome, and shock. Over time hyperglycemia damages the body's blood vessels, foremost to serious long-term complications, such as diabetic retinopathy, kidney failure, and blindness, kidney failure, serious skin infections, gangrene, cardiovascular disease, stroke, peripheral neuropathy, disability, and death.

The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Type 2 diabetes includes the 27 symptoms listed below -

No early symptoms - many people have Type 2 diabetes without knowing it

Early mild symptoms - from moderate blood sugars (which are dangerous and lead to serious complications) -

1. Skin rashes
2. Skin infections
3. Athlete's foot
4. Poor skin healing
5. Urinary tract infections
6. Candida
7. Thrush
8. Dry itchy skin
9. Flaky skin
10. Skin ulcers
11. Peripheral neuropathy
12. Paresthesias
13. Foot tingling
14. Foot numbness
15. Hand tingling
16. Hand numbness
17. Blurred vision
18. Sexual problems
19. Erectile failure
20. Unusual vaginal dryness
21. Premature menopause
22. Absent periods
23. Poor healing - any type of difficulty in healing of minor infections, injury or after surgery.
24. Weight loss
25. Weight gain
26. Drowsiness
27. Malaise