Do your symptoms indicate diabetes?

After writing about diabetes last week it occurred to me that I didn’t address the fact that over seven million people in the U.S. have undiagnosed diabetes. And, much to my chagrin, I have to admit that a lot of people are reluctant to have regular medical checkups. 

If you do not have regular exams you may not know that an annual physical typically includes urine and blood tests that identifies many potential and actual problems, not the least of which is diabetes.

So, today we’re going to examine the symptoms of diabetes and encourage you, if you have any of these symptoms, to contact your medical provider for a complete examination. It’s easy to put your head in the sand, but if you think about the potentially harmful complications of diabetes, it should scare you right to your phone for an appointment.

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