If you experience the early symptoms of diabetes (commonly called pre-diabetes), it means it is too late for its prevention. However, reversal of those symptoms is possible with aggressive intervention and lifestyle modification. Proper control means reversal of the syndrome, and is possible even in later stages of this debilitating disease.
Early symptoms diabetes oxymoron
The early symptoms of diabetes are usually called pre-diabetes. However, we do not speak of a condition called "pre-pregnancy"; one is either pregnant or is not. If you are pre-hungry, then you're not hungry. Once you experience diabetes symptoms such as elevated A1c, hypoglycemic attacks, frequent urination, and a list of other potential signs, the metabolic disorder called diabetes is already there. In other words, pre-diabetes is an oxymoron; actually, being pre-sick would mean that you are healthy.
The pre-diabetes label is still used to describe early symptoms of diabetes; even by authoritative sources. These agencies define pre-diabetes as "impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance," but note that those who have been declared as having type two diabetes also have "impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose."
Maybe we should be looking at "symptoms of early diabetes" or symptoms of diabetes in newly diagnosed diabetics rather than declaring people as having pre-diabetes. The symptoms are the same in the early stages or the late stage - only to different degrees.
Early symptoms of diabetes - don't wait for them to happen
Some people become convinced that they will have type two diabetes because they believe it is part of their genetic inheritance. That is self-defeating. Habits and ways of doing things do get passed on but behavior can be modified. No one has yet discovered a "diabetes" gene or "germ". In the vast majority of cases, this disease could have been prevented. This is true in my case, even though I have relatives who had the disease.
Prevent early symptoms of diabetes and you won't be diabetic
The key is to prevent, instead of react. How do I know this works? In my case, I change my health habits and the symptoms disappeared. [A1c = 5.2% (April 2009); has been 5.2 - 5.3 for the past 3 years, without medication]. Whether or not you have diabetes, by having an anti-diabetes diet and lifestyle (good health habits) now, you can either reverse the symptoms or prevent the onset of diabetes.
Changing our habits, however, are usually more difficult than it sounds. During the healthy times we deny we need to change anything. We also blame our mothers and fathers for passing on the "tendency" to develop diabetes to us. But we fail to realize the **power** we have of changing our behavior until we are forced to, just to survive.
Can the early symptoms of diabetes be misleading?
Sometimes the early symptoms of the disease can be misleading in another way (other than being called pre-diabetes). Consider the frequent urination, excessive thirst, blurred vision, dry skin, tiredness, and other ailments that often accompany type two diabetes. Any of those can be due to something else. Any of those conditions can be indications of other problems - and if you have normal body weight or are fairly active, no one might readily suspect you have diabetes.
However, the number don't lie: If you have elevated A1c readings, are overweight, have poor eating habits (what and when you eat), are sleep deprived, etc, it will just be a matter of time before type two diabetes OR one of it's "cousins" - high cholesterol, high blood pressure - catches up with you. Don't go there!
Early symptoms of diabetes mean you already have diabetes, but you don't have to keep nursing those symptoms. Reverse them, take your health back... and do it without collateral damage.
Early symptoms diabetes oxymoron
The early symptoms of diabetes are usually called pre-diabetes. However, we do not speak of a condition called "pre-pregnancy"; one is either pregnant or is not. If you are pre-hungry, then you're not hungry. Once you experience diabetes symptoms such as elevated A1c, hypoglycemic attacks, frequent urination, and a list of other potential signs, the metabolic disorder called diabetes is already there. In other words, pre-diabetes is an oxymoron; actually, being pre-sick would mean that you are healthy.
The pre-diabetes label is still used to describe early symptoms of diabetes; even by authoritative sources. These agencies define pre-diabetes as "impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance," but note that those who have been declared as having type two diabetes also have "impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose."
Maybe we should be looking at "symptoms of early diabetes" or symptoms of diabetes in newly diagnosed diabetics rather than declaring people as having pre-diabetes. The symptoms are the same in the early stages or the late stage - only to different degrees.
Early symptoms of diabetes - don't wait for them to happen
Some people become convinced that they will have type two diabetes because they believe it is part of their genetic inheritance. That is self-defeating. Habits and ways of doing things do get passed on but behavior can be modified. No one has yet discovered a "diabetes" gene or "germ". In the vast majority of cases, this disease could have been prevented. This is true in my case, even though I have relatives who had the disease.
Prevent early symptoms of diabetes and you won't be diabetic
The key is to prevent, instead of react. How do I know this works? In my case, I change my health habits and the symptoms disappeared. [A1c = 5.2% (April 2009); has been 5.2 - 5.3 for the past 3 years, without medication]. Whether or not you have diabetes, by having an anti-diabetes diet and lifestyle (good health habits) now, you can either reverse the symptoms or prevent the onset of diabetes.
Changing our habits, however, are usually more difficult than it sounds. During the healthy times we deny we need to change anything. We also blame our mothers and fathers for passing on the "tendency" to develop diabetes to us. But we fail to realize the **power** we have of changing our behavior until we are forced to, just to survive.
Can the early symptoms of diabetes be misleading?
Sometimes the early symptoms of the disease can be misleading in another way (other than being called pre-diabetes). Consider the frequent urination, excessive thirst, blurred vision, dry skin, tiredness, and other ailments that often accompany type two diabetes. Any of those can be due to something else. Any of those conditions can be indications of other problems - and if you have normal body weight or are fairly active, no one might readily suspect you have diabetes.
However, the number don't lie: If you have elevated A1c readings, are overweight, have poor eating habits (what and when you eat), are sleep deprived, etc, it will just be a matter of time before type two diabetes OR one of it's "cousins" - high cholesterol, high blood pressure - catches up with you. Don't go there!
Early symptoms of diabetes mean you already have diabetes, but you don't have to keep nursing those symptoms. Reverse them, take your health back... and do it without collateral damage.
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