The main symptoms of diabetes include significantly increased thirst, needing to urinate more often than usual and increased hunger.
As diabetes advances, patients can experience blurred vision, numbness or tingling in the fingers and toes. Also wounds that take a long time to heal, can also be a telltale sign.
If diabetes goes undiagnosed and untreated patients may ultimately require the amputation of fingers, toes, or in some cases the lower limbs.