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Q: What are the symptoms of pre-diabetes that do not have diabetes?
Where your blood sugur is high but not high enough for diabetes.And do not have the classic symptoms like eating lots ,drinking lots ,going to the bathroom alot ,tired ,weak and sore woods .

A: More often than not, prediabetes does not show any signs or symptoms. You could have prediabetes and not even know it.

It is important to know the symptoms of high blood sugar and be on the lookout for them.

* Increased thirst.
* Dry mouth.
* Increased urination.
* Increased hunger.
* Unexplained weight loss.
* Fatigue.
* Blurred vision.
* Infections, cuts and bruises that heal slowly.
* Trouble with skin, gum, or bladder infections.
* Feeling cranky.
* Numbness or tingling of the hands and/or feet.
* Nausea and occasionally vomiting.
* High levels of sugar in the blood when tested.
* High levels of sugar in the urine when tested.
* Areas of darkened skin.

Q: Pre Diabetes Symptoms?
What are the Symptoms of Pre Diabetes?

A: Pre Diabetes is a condition where a persons blood sugar level is higher than normal, but not elevated enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. In most cases prediabetes has no signs and symptoms whatsoever.

One possible Pre Diabetes symptom is acanthosis nigricans. Acanthosis nigricans causes areas of the skin to become darkened. These darkened areas of the skin generally appear around the neck, knees, armpits and knuckles.

Pre Diabetes was formerly called borderline diabetes. In fact people with Pre Diabetes have a high risk of developing heart disease.

Q: What are the pre- diabetes symptoms ?
Some say people may have pre- diabetes symptoms before thay get diabetes . Where by diabetes symptoms are of going to the bathroom alot , drinking lots of water ,hungree alot ,tried ,weak ,tingling or numbness in your hands, legs or feet , skin that is dry or itchy, frequent infections or cuts and bruises that take a long time to heal ..

Now the above symptoms are a signs of diabetes. But if you have none of the above what is pre- diabetes symptoms ?

Some say if there is sugar ,salt or protein in the urine or skin spots may be pre- diabetes before you get diabetes .

I so confused what is this pre- diabetes and if sugar ,salt or protein in the urine or skin spots is pre- diabetes or not.

A: Symptoms
Prediabetes is most often a silent condition with no symptoms.

But certain risk factors, such as obesity or lack of exercise, may put you at a higher risk of developing prediabetes. If you have any of the risk factors for prediabetes—which are similar to the risk factors for type 2 diabetes—ask your doctor whether you should be tested.

What Happens
Being diagnosed with prediabetes is a warning sign that you are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes. Each year about 4% to 9% of people with prediabetes go on to develop type 2 diabetes.1 Although you may still be healthy, moderate and persistent elevated blood sugar levels greatly increase your risk for getting diabetes and heart and blood vessel (cardiovascular) disease. Compared to people with normal blood sugar levels, people with prediabetes have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease, such as heart attackor stroke.2

If you have been diagnosed with prediabetes, you are also at higher risk for eye, nerve, and kidney disease. For more information on these complications, see the topic Type 2 Diabetes: Living With Complications.

You can help prevent or delay the start of type 2 diabetes by doing all of the following:

■Limit the amount of fat you eat.
■Limit the calories you eat.
■Limit sweets.
■Lose weight.
■Add more activity to your life.
These healthy habits can also lower your risk of complications. For more information, see the Treatment Overview section of this topic.

What Increases Your Risk
The risk factors for prediabetes are similar to the risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Most people who get type 2 diabetes had prediabetes firs

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Q: Am I experience pre-diabetes symptoms? plz help?
I am 25 yr’s old, female and little overweight. I am experiencing headache after eating sweets mostly at night times.
In this week I attended 2 parties …in one party after meals I ate small piece of cake and another party I ate small amount of ice cream after eating those immediately i started headache. Is this is simptom of diabetes…any doctors out there plz help me. My mother has diabetes….I am so scared of diabetes.

A: Here are some symptoms of type 2 diabetes:
* Increased thirst and frequent urination. As excess sugar builds up in your bloodstream, fluid is pulled from your tissues. This may leave you thirsty. As a result, you may drink and urinate more than usual.
* Extreme hunger. Without enough insulin to move sugar into your cells, your muscles and organs become depleted of energy. This triggers intense hunger that may persist even after you eat.
* Weight loss. Despite eating more than usual to relieve your constant hunger, you may lose weight. Without the energy sugar supplies, your muscle tissues and fat stores may simply shrink.
* Fatigue. If your cells are deprived of sugar, you may become tired and irritable.
* Blurred vision. If your blood sugar level is too high, fluid may be pulled from your tissues — including the lenses of your eyes. This may affect your ability to focus.
* Slow-healing sores or frequent infections. Type 2 diabetes affects your ability to heal and fight infections. Bladder and vaginal infections can be a particular problem for women.

If your mother is a diabetic it does increase your chances of getting it. Make a appointment with your GP to have your sugar levels checked.

Good Luck!

Q: Am I experience pre-diabetes symptoms?
This may sound like a totally stupid question because I know virtually nothing about diabetes, but I’m a 28 year old female and I’ve been experiencing some very strange things and I’m wondering if it’s got anything to do with my insulin levels. Anyone in the know, please give me some insight.

1. Sudden headache and painful stomach that hits within 30 min. of eating carbohydrates (from white/wheat pasta, breads, potatoes, corn, baked goods like donuts, etc.). I call it the “Carbo rush.” And it is NOT pleasant.

2. Feelings of extreme and uncomfortable restlessness followed by bouts of fatigue so badly that even espresso doesn’t help (actually, that just causes the restlessness which is worse than the fatigue)

3. Intense cravings for donuts, chocolate, sugary cereals, cookies, cake – anything high in fat and sugar. Cravings so bad that I often find myself eating six donuts in twenty minutes and waking up several time a night to pig out on these foods.

Any ideas?

A: Your abdominal problems sounds more like a wheat or gluten allergy or Celiac’s Disease, which is really common.

Research the topic, go on 3 day wheat free diet and see what happens.

Q: PRE-DIABETES….SYMPTOMS ANY??? PERSONAL STORIES PLEASE…..ETC.?

A: I recently was diagonised as having insulin resistance & metabolic disorder, which is a pre-diabetic condition. Im 27yo F.
My fasting and non-fasting blood sugar levels are within the normal range, however, a Glucose tolerence test, my insulin levels skyrocketed during at the 1st hr and 2nd hr tests.
My symptoms that made the dr send me for the test were:
- fatigue, especially after lunch
- difficulty losing weight
- always hungry (if I ate a large meal, I would feel full but then half an hour later I was hungry again)

Id been sent many times in the past for blood sugar tests and they always came back normal. I started seeing a new GP and she picked this up the first time I saw her.

The treatment has been: taking a diabetic medication, at a low level, after breakfast and dinner, and sticking to a low GI diet. both have helped a lot. I also cut out a lot of caffeine as it can cause the liver to reject insulin. ( I was drinking about two – three coffees and about 1L of coke zero in a day – now I have one coffee or one can of coke zero). I also started drinking more water – as I wasnt really drinking any in a day – maybe 1 glass.
These things all helped. I have lost about 8kgs and I feel a lot better.

Changing the way you eat is the most important way to stop being pre-diabetic.

*** That is pre-type 2 diabetes. I dont think you can be considered pre-diabetic with type 1, as it is not triggered by lifestyle as far as I know **

Q: What Are the Symptoms Of Pre-Diabetes?

A: Hunger, Increased urinary frequency (going to the restroom a lot), Decreased energy, Frequent thirst, Weight loss, Frequent infections

Basically, the same symptoms you would have if you were diabetic, but just to a lesser degree. However, many people claim to have none of these symptoms at the time of their diagnosis, so it really varies.

Q: pre diabetes?
even if you have a normal fasting blood sugar but you have many of the symptoms of diabetes (poor eye sight, excessive thirst, fatigue, headaches, moodyness) could you still be diabetic? or have pre diabetes?

A: Yes, watch your sugar.

Q: What are the symptoms of pre-diabetes?
I do not want medical book answers I want personal experiences.

A: Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have “pre-diabetes” — blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. There are 41 million people in the United States, ages 40 to 74, who have pre-diabetes. Recent research has shown that some long-term damage to the body, especially the heart and circulatory system, may already be occurring during pre-diabetes.

Research has also shown that if you take action to manage your blood glucose when you have pre-diabetes, you can delay or prevent type 2 diabetes from ever developing. Together with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the American Diabetes Association published a Position Statement on “The Prevention or Delay of Type 2 Diabetes” to help guide health care professionals in treating their patients with pre-diabetes.

There is a lot you can do yourself to know your risks for pre-diabetes and to take action to prevent diabetes if you have, or are at risk for, pre-diabetes. The American Diabetes Association has a wealth of resources for people with diabetes. People with pre-diabetes can expect to benefit from much of the same advice for good nutrition and physical activity. The links on this page are cornerstones of successful management of pre-diabetes.

Q: Are there any symptoms for pre-diabetes?
My blood glucose was a little high during a health screening (non-fasting), but not in the diabetes range. My urine smells sweet, though, and I’m wondering if I might have full-blown diabetes because of this symptom? Don’t worry – I already have an appointment to see my doctor. I’m just impatient and wanted to know.
Just to clarify – I’m not smelling and definitely not tasting my urine. I can smell it after I pee without sticking my head near the toilet.

A: There may or may not be, it’s important to know that not everyone experiences symptoms. The glucose being a little high may be the result of a meal you had eaten.

What is important is that your smart enough to make an appointment with your doctor to find out.

Oh, by the way , the smelling or tasting of urine is no longer used to identify diabetes…….That’s been discontinued for the last 600 years.

Good luck on your test

Q: what are the symptoms of pre diabetes?

A: Hi:

Symptoms of pre-diabetes may be silent. But when you begin having signs of it, there are things like:

Tiredness
Unquenchable Thirst
Possible weight loss
Frequent urination
Hunger
Slow healing sores
Bladder infections (multiple ones)

If you are having any of these symptoms, or a few of them, I would advise a blood sugar check. Fasting over 100 is pre-diabetic, and 126 or greater fasting is considered diabetic after checking it twice fasting.

Q: Pre Diabetes?
I had a routine physical in September and my fasting glucose results were abnormal – 121. Since then I’ve had two, two hour glucose tolerance tests, one in October and the one in November.

October fasting glucose 117, after two hours 157
November fasting glucose 108, after two hours 173 (Fasting number is dropping, two hour number increasing)
A1C test was 5.4%

My question is, I take a Beta Blocker for migraines. After consulting my neurologist I weaned myself off the beta blocker for two weeks before I took the November tolerance test. I’m not over weight, six foot three, 205 lbs and I don’t have any symptoms for diabetes. With my height and weight I’m not the usual diabetes type II candidate and I feel fine. Has any one else had a similar experience or results while being on a beta blocker or similar numbers for being a “normal” height and weight? I’m meeting with my Doctor again tomorrow, just was looking for some feedback. (He’s seems perplexed)

A: “Facilitation of hypoglycemia — Epinephrine, acting via the beta-adrenergic receptors, has important effects on glucose metabolism. It increases glucose production by stimulating both glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis from amino acids, glycerol, and pyruvate. It also increases the delivery of these gluconeogenic substrates from the periphery, inhibits glucose utilization by several tissues, and, via the alpha-2-receptors, inhibits insulin secretion.
All of these actions help to protect against the development of hypoglycemia. In addition, epinephrine also induces early warning symptoms of neuroglycopenia, such as sweating and anxiety.
The net effect is that beta blockers (especially nonselective agents) can retard recovery from insulin-induced hypoglycemia. These reactions are more likely to be severe because of diminished or absent early warning signs. The effects on glucose metabolism may be less prominent, however, with beta-1 selective drugs and those with ISA. In addition, there was no significant increased risk of serious hypoglycemia among patients with diabetes mellitus taking nonselective beta blockers in one report .”
-http://cmbi.bjmu.edu.cn/uptodate/cardiac%20arrhythmias/Antiarrhythmic%20drugs/Major%20side%20effects%20of%20beta%20blockers.htm

You may be labelled as potential or latent diabetic, so you may need periodic check up of fasting sugar as well as HbA1c. Beta blockers probably have nothing to do with this, although your doc may like to shift you to some other drug.

Good luck!

Q: Any physical symptoms with pre-diabetes????

A: Sometimes, but some people go thru their lives not knowing what to look for or they get them confused with other diseases.

Excessive thirst
Excessive peeing
Moodiness
Feeling sluggish or tired all the time
Shaky feeling if missed food or excessive sugar intake

Q: How to lose weight and avoid diabetes?
My sister is 24 and obese. Her doctor says she has developed a few signs of pre-diabetes. How can she lose weight in a way that will also get rid of pre-diabetes symptoms?? I am very worried about her, please help.
Wow, Susan. Thanks for your insensitive answer.

A: Portion control. Exercise. That would save her. Eat or drink no sugars, except special occasions.
More fiber. These are the top things to save her. Move more, eat less.

www.nutritiondata.com
www.calorieking.com

Q: pre diabetes eating lollies causes bad nausea?
I have been diagnosed as pre diabetes, still not sure what this is. I have no symptoms of diabetes like thirst, urnination but whenever I eat lollies I really feel like throwing up, is this because of this condition.

A: The key to dealing with your condition is understanding it, so you hae better awareness of the effects the choices you make have on your overall health.

Prediabetes is a condition where not all the diagnostic criteria for diabetes are met, and where the patients are at an actual risk for developing type 2 diabetes. It’s also clinically termed “impaired glucose tolerance”, and it is actually considered a very early stage of diabetes at which point the full development of the diabetes type 2 condition becomes more or less a matter of time, and as such you do not have all the symptoms of diabetes, and unless you do not make the right choices for your health, the progression of this condition to diabetes takes about 2-3 years.

Generally speaking, what that means is that your body is developing insulin resistence, which means that the amounts of insulin naturally produced in your body are not sufficient to metabolize designated nutrients and engage your liver, muscle and fat cells.

Please be aware that this condition is not to be taken lightly just because you do not have the full-blown symptoms yet. The severity of your insulin resistence is highly dependant on the nutrition you intake currently. If you ingest more sugars and carbohydrates than your body needs, it -will- develop a higher insulin resistence which is generally a more severe form of diabetes. In the other hand, if you follow a controlled diet, there’s a good chance that prediabetes doesn’t progress into diabetes type 2 anytime in the near future.

Your weight and family history are also two key factors– the chances of developing diabetes are higher if there are incidents of type 2 diabetes in your family– this isn’t something you can control, really, but you can always make the right choice and delay the onset of the full condition. IF you are overweight, however, you will need to shed enough pounds back to the normal range in order to prevent diabetes.

A low fat diet, regular exercise (even walking for at least an hour a day can make a vast difference), consume healthy amounts of sugars in your diet but do not consume unnecessary foods with high sugar contents. At this point, when you consume something like lollies, which are very rich in sugar, your body cannot digest/metabolize them properly and it can actually cause you to become nauseated, regardless of whether you have met all the other criteria for diabetes and have developed all other symptoms or not.

Prediabetes is becoming a very widespread condition nowadays, and unfortunately, many people take it lightly as they do not experience any serious symptoms, and as it doesn’t sound like anything serious. And the age at which people are diagnosed with it is becoming frighteningly early. Please do not take it lightly, and make the right choices for your health. I have done my best to explain this to the best of my knowledge, and I do hope you benefit from it.

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