Glucose Intolerance Symptoms

Are you glucose intolerant? Do you have abnormal levels of insulin in your body? Here are some glucose intolerance symptoms to help you find out.

Glucose intolerance is a more common problem than most people think. Hence, it is essential to know whether you have glucose intolerance so that the problem may be diagnosed in the early stages and steps can be taken to see that it is not exacerbated. Here’s an article on glucose intolerance and symptoms of glucose intolerance.

Glucose Intolerance What is glucose intolerance? Glucose intolerance is very commonly referred to as pre-diabetes. Normally when a person eats food, the glucose levels after eating

in the blood increase due to carbohydrates and sugar consumption. The pancreas produces a hormone known as ‘insulin’ which helps in absorbing the glucose in the blood and turn it into energy. Thus a while after eating, your glucose levels will come down to the normal level. But in a person who is glucose intolerant, there is a problem in either the production or the supply of insulin into the blood stream. Thus, even a while after eating, the blood sugar levels stay higher than what is supposed to be good for the body. Such a situation need not necessarily be diabetes.

The difference between glucose intolerance and full blown diabetes is that the blood sugar levels of a glucose intolerant are high, but not high enough to make him a diabetic. According to wikipedia, glucose intolerance or pre-diabetes is ‘America’s largest health-care epidemic’, affecting about 57 million Americans. A person with glucose intolerance symptoms risks not only the eventuality of getting type 2 diabetes, but also runs the risk of suffering from some cardiovascular disease, unless the glucose intolerance is effectively taken care of.

Impaired Glucose Intolerance Symptoms

So if you had glucose intolerance, how would you know? Here are some common glucose intolerance symptoms to help you diagnose whether you are suffering from this problem. If you notice any of these symptoms, it does not necessarily imply that you are glucose intolerant, but you ought to get a check-up done from a doctor, just in case. The doctor will ask you to take a blood test in order to confirm if there is any problem. So here are some symptoms of glucose intolerance and pre-diabetes.

• Constantly feeling thirsty
• Frequent urination
• Insulin resistance
• Dark patches on skin, itching, rashes
• Tingling in the limbs
• Rapid weight loss or weight gain
• Excessive hunger
• Muscle cramping
• Fatigue
• Blurred vision
• Irritability
• Anxiety
• Headaches
• Inability to focus
• Bloating
• Increased blood pressure
• Depression

If glucose intolerance is not taken care of, then there is a chance of the patient developing full blown type 2 diabetes. So in addition to the previously mentioned symptoms, the symptoms of type 2 diabetes are:

• Lethargy
• Constant itching of external genitalia
• Blurred vision
• Erectile dysfunction (in men)
• Vaginal dryness and premature menopause (in women) Read on for lowering glucose levels

and a diabetes control diet.

So this was all about the glucose intolerance symptoms and diabetes symptoms. You can take the fasting blood glucose test in order to be sure. It is essential that you fix the problem while it is still in its early stages. Otherwise diabetes and all other associated maladies are just around the corner.