Unidentified Diabetics –
Six Million Americans Don't Know

Unidentified diabetics in America now at over 6 million! There are 21 million Americans with diabetes. Americans with diabetes are increasing over 1 million per year. There are about 6 million unidentified diabetics walking around, living their lives, and not on treatment plans getting better, because they do not know that they are diabetic. They could be a family member, or a friend, and are giving diabetes a head start in their bodies.

Let’s start with the one million who will be diagnosed this year. You just don’t become a diabetic from one day to another. There are no symptoms to alert you, and to encourage you to go see a doctor. You probably do not get periodic physicals to discover that you are an unidentified diabetic. Leading up to the time when serious diabetic complications appear, you are now an unidentified diabetic that needs to get on a treatment plan quick.

What about the 11 year old girl on the cover of TIME magazine in July 2006? She is an adult diabetic, not a juvenile diabetic with pancreas problems. She can’t be the only child in America to be discovered that has been eating the wrong foods for some time, and now her problems will begin with her eyes and feet. She and like all too many like her, are part of the unidentified diabetics. Children are defenseless. They are put in environments where they can make wrong choices and they need knowledge, and helpful guidance.

Now comes the baby boomers who had led all others, including seniors, in being those with the largest percentage increase in being diagnosed as diabetic, with a 72% increase last year.

The baby boomers are too busy achieving, maybe too confident in being who they are, to think very much about their health. They too represent millions of unidentified diabetics.

That need to be taking care of their bodies as the diabetic destroyers are quietly attacking their bodies from within.

Then there is a very cruel group of unidentified diabetics because they have been told by the medical community that they are non-diabetic. This group also numbers in the millions. They believe that they are free from this terrible disease; all the while they have bodies under attack.

Why is this? Because doctors don’t test these patients correctly! It is probably that the medical schools did not make testing hypoglycemians different from others. The blood of hypoglemcians is different. They have much less glucose in their bloodstream than most of us do. It will measure 70 when normal, while we will measure 120.

Doctors instruct their nurses to check to see if the patient’s number is between 70 and 120. If so, OK. With a reading of 90, a hypoglemcian is 20 points too high, and very definitely are among the unidentified diabetics. They need to get on a treatment plan quickly as they are heading towards blindness, kidney failure, and feet amputations.

Sometimes people will ask what if the reading of 90 is for the other type of blood type. Good question. The other type hyperglycemian normally would never get so low a number. Most known testing shows numbers down to only 97. A side point, for your personal information. You can often identify a hypoglemcian if they tend to carry candy with them, for when they start to get fatigued, or disoriented.

We need to encourage people we know to be tested at least once a year, be sensitive to children and baby boomers eating the wrong foods, and help provide the knowledge to doctors identifying a patient as a hypoglycemian. Doing this we will be reducing unidentified diabetics, and saving them much grief.