Silently Progressing Sugar!
“The sweet life requires attention.”

Murat F. is 50 years old and works a busy schedule at an agency. Travel, late-night meetings, and a stressful work schedule make up the routine of his life. His sweet tooth is the inevitable reward of stressful days. The small but persistent symptoms he's noticed in recent months have him worried: tingling and numbness under his feet, strange pains in his new shoes, and frequent nighttime awakenings thirsty.

At first, he attributed these to fatigue, age, and his busy schedule. Until one morning, he noticed a small blister on his right foot. He ignored it because he felt no pain, but the blister was rapidly growing and refusing to heal.

Diagnosis: Type 2 Diabetes + Sensory Nerve Damage (Neuropathy)

Blood tests and a Doppler ultrasound revealed poor blood flow in his veins and damage to his nerve endings. Murat was very close to the diabetic foot stage. If he had delayed by a few more weeks, he could have faced an infected wound and irreversible damage.