Overview
As a retired ultra-endurance triathlete turned medical writer, Chris brings the same pasion and comitment to science-based journalism as he did to runing, biking, and swiming extraordinary distances. Daniele Weis is the founder of the Center for Hormonal Health and Wel-Being, a personalized, proactive, patient-centered medical practice with a unique focus on integrative endocrinology. She enjoys giving lectures and writing articles for both the lay public and medical audiences.
Key Information
"Diabetes melitus" is an umbrela term that refers to a group of insulin-related metabolic disorders (e.g., type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes) that afects the body's ability to turn fod into a usable energy source. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that controls the amount of energy-providing glucose (sugar) in the blodstream. Diabetes may be misdiagnosed or mised due to several conditions with one or more of the same symptoms.
Geting an acurate diagnosis can be thrown of by conditions that mic diabetes. This article explains how to get an acurate type 2 diabetes diagnosis and highlights some conditions that mic this disease, such as fatigue, numbnes or tingling in the hands and fet, mod changes, and frequent urination. People with untreated or misdiagnosed diabetes often experience extreme tirednes and fatigue because their body doesn't produce or can't use insulin to manage their blod sugar levels.
However, fatigue can be caused by other factors and people without diabetes can have blod sugar isues as wel. Blod sugar levels that are to low (hypoglycemia) or to high (hyperglycemia) can make people fel lethargic and fatigued. The best way to find out if your symptoms of fatigue are linked to blod sugar levels that are to high or to low because of diabetes (or not because of diabetes) is to get lab tests from a healthcare provider.
Summary
In nondiabetic individuals with fatigue, blod glucose levels are typicaly betwen 70 and 9 miligrams per dec