The usual definition of diabetes is having too much glucose in your blood.
How much is too much? Well, the World Health Organisation lowered the threshold some time ago, 1997, as people were being found to have diabetes, despite being under the blood sugar level associated as being normal.
The new definition, along with the usual symptoms such as fatigue, excessive thirst, frequent urination and blurred vision is:
- A randomly taken sample of blood glucose showing a level greater than 11 mmol/l (millimoles per litre).
- Blood sugar levels greater than or equal to 7 mmol/l when fasting
- If blood sugars are greater than 11 mmol/l two hours after drinking 75 grams of glucose diluted in water.
- Millimoles per litre are an almost universal measurement, except in the US, where mg./dl (milligrams per decilitre) is used, which is mmol/l x 18.
Everyone is different. In my case I had my own business at the time, dealing with floods and fires for insurance companies. We would go in, strip out all the damaged items and building fabric, then reinstate the property. It was physical work and I loved it.
I thought the physical aspect meant that it helped keep me fit, and when at 47 years of age, I found that I needed to take a short 20 minute nap in the afternoon; I simply put this down to my advancing years.
Some months later, I developed a raging thirst. I was literally drinking over 5 gallons of water a day, and needed to visit the bathroom about every half hour.
Things came to a head about 2 weeks after this, when my vision became slightly blurred. Initially, that too I put down to age, especially since I received a reminder for an eye test! I woke up one morning and just couldn’t see, everything was just a mass of colour.
I happened to be visiting my parents at the time, and my father, a doctor, recognised the symptoms immediately.
I finally visited my doctor the next day, more tests and it was confirmed. I had type 2 diabetes.
I was instantly put on 3 different drugs as my sugar levels were out somewhere around 27 mmol/l! Some 6 months later I was put on insulin, and have been injecting twice a day for nearly 2 years now.
The point is, if you have any of these symptoms, including stress and
irritability, don’t simply put them down to old age or stress in the
workplace. Go and see your doctor and get checked out. In fact, you
should really have a check up every year.
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Early diagnosis means getting this disease under control
earlier, and reduces the potential consequences of diabetes – renal
failure, blindness and amputations to name three.