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4 Early Signs Your Blood Sugar Is High
Dr Livingood
When you have high blood sugar levels, it can be easy to miss.
Every year, millions of people have metabolic issues but don’t know that there’s something wrong until it gets much worse.
Without checking your blood sugar levels, it can take a lot of work to know precisely how your glucose levels are doing.
To help you recognize the early symptoms of high blood sugar, here are four signs that you should watch out for.
1. Frequent Urination
When you have high blood sugar levels, your kidneys will try to create a balance within your body, leading to frequent urination.
If you chronically have high blood sugar levels, your breath may often smell sweet as well as your urine.
This is because your body is spilling ketones, which creates a sweet smell.
2. Increased Hunger & Thirst
Because your body is urinating frequently, consequently you may feel the need to drink more.
You may also have an increased hunger level.
This is because your body thinks that it needs more food to help balance your insulin levels.
Over time, excess insulin in your body starts to cause damage and becomes less effective itself, which intensifies these problems.
3. Slow To Heal
When you have chronically high blood sugar, you may experience slow healing times.
Cuts and scrapes that should heal within a few days can take much longer than normal to heal.
This is because with more sugar in your blood, your blood is thicker, and the cells involved in the healing process can’t migrate efficiently to the wound site.
Your blood becomes thicker as a result of high blood sugar because of the chronic dehydration that many experience.
When you’re frequently urinating but aren’t replacing the water, this will cause your blood to become thicker.
4. Vision
You may be affected with blurry vision with chronic high blood sugar.
With chronic high blood sugar, it’s often your extremities that will show signs before the rest of your body does.
This is because your extremities have small blood vessels that are sensitive to stress.
Like your extremities, your eyes also have delicate blood vessels.
Over time, the blood vessels in your eyes become damaged, leading to poor vision.
In addition, it can also change the pressure within your eyes and also your lenses, which can blur your vision.
Get Your Blood Sugar Checked Today!
If you are experiencing these symptoms, it’s imperative that you check in with your doctor.
Getting ahead of metabolic problems is the key to experiencing real health.
You should look at your diet and lifestyle and cut out any foods that are high in sugar.
These include carbohydrates, processed foods, and sugary foods.
By cutting out these problematic foods, you can help support your blood sugar levels.
If you would like more ways you can clean up your diet and lifestyle, my free book will guide you, making the process easy and simple.
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