 Hi guys, this is Dr. Ahmet Ergen. I'm an endocrinologist. I treat diabetes every day and I am going to answer a common question today Which is the symptoms of high blood sugar. So what do you feel like when you have high? Now a lot of people who are dealing with diabetes at some point in their life may have felt that they had The low blood sugar symptoms, right? So it doesn't feel good. It's very easily identifiable But today I'm going to talk to you about high blood sugar symptoms. Now How do you really know that your blood sugars are high? Now one thing before we jump to that guys Make sure you subscribe make sure you give a thumbs up make sure you share this video if you like it now back to the topic guys So a lot of people sometimes will tell me in my clinic. They'll be like, oh, I don't check my blood sugar I'm like why they're like, oh, well, I can feel it. What's your blood sugar right now? They'll they'll always be wrong. Now, you know, your feelings are not gonna always tell you what your blood sugar is So I wouldn't recommend just by going by your feelings I'm just gonna tell you that if you didn't check your blood sugar and you don't feel right and What symptoms can be related to high blood sugars? Number one, you're going to start going to the bathroom a lot Here's why it happens. Your kidneys can only hold onto sugar so much So after 220 blood sugar in diabetics if your blood sugar is staying above 220 for a while You're going to dump that sugar into your bladder and as a result You will end up peeing bunch of sugar and the sugar attracts water So you're going to end up urinating a lot and that's going to make you what? Thirsty, of course, so you're gonna urinate a lot You're gonna be thirsty you're gonna drink more water and you're gonna feel like you can drink all the water in the World you'll still be thirsty. That's a problem if you don't have diabetes You may have diabetes so you better check your blood sugar or get tested you're going to feel tired as well Why because if your body is not using that sugar that's running in your system? It's like having a bank account with five million dollars, but you cannot pay your rent. That's a problem, right? It's painful. It's fatigue. It's gonna cause problems and this this your muscle will not be able to get those glucose and As a result you are going to feel very tired and of course it's gonna come with headache as well again Your brain runs on the glucose the moment that you're being your your brain is unable to get that Glucose then you are going to be in trouble and it's gonna trigger a headache not just high blood sugars But fluctuations in your blood sugars as well. Sometimes people will tell me hey if my blood sugar goes down to 110 I have a headache. Well, that's not because 110 blood sugar cause a headache It's because they are normally running up to 200 300 and then sudden drop in the blood sugar will definitely trigger a headache as well So fluctuations are definitely a problem now if your blood sugars are also running high your lens in your eyes will swell And you will start having blurry vision. So don't think that you're going blind It's totally reversible, but you're going to have blurry vision and that's not going to feel right having said that If you don't do anything about these symptoms and you continue to ignore yourself and hopefully you don't but if you do You may end up with something like called DKA diabetic keto acidosis now Diabetic keto acidosis typically happens in type 1 patients However, type 2 diabetic patients can end up with diabetic keto acidosis Especially if there are certain drugs that can make them prone to it or if they leave their blood sugar staying running high For a prolonged period of time What happens is we call that glucote toxicity Which means that the glucose the high glucose levels will basically Paralyze your pancreas and your pancreas will stop making insulin. So what are the diabetic keto acidosis symptoms? You're going to have nausea. You're going to have abdominal pain. You may vomit and Acidotic state will set in and that's not cool So basically you are going to also have this bad breath that sounds like a spoiled fruit and Nobody wants to be around you So you're gonna feel weak. You may feel confused. You may breathe rapidly because your body will try to Excrete that excessive acid through breathing. Okay, so these are the main problems associated with diabetes again diabetic keto acidosis is the advanced like the towards the end stage of diabetes symptoms on that scale But if you are feeling excessive urination if you're having excessive urination if you're feeling thirsty a lot If you're feeling headache weak tired Those are the symptoms of High blood sugars definitely blurred vision definitely can be a Quick tip for you if you don't feel any of these some people's eyes are very sensitive To glucose changes as well. So you may realize the blurry vision faster than some other symptoms sometimes So I hope that was useful guys. 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