Wake up, put on some music by the water, and let your body move. Your immaculate day starts right here!
8. Infections that keep coming and cuts that won't heal
High blood sugar weakens your immune system. Fungal infections, boils, and carbuncles show up more often, and cuts take far longer to close. Keep your skin clean and get any skin problem checked early.
Your skin is a warning system. If you spot these signs, get your blood sugar checked and keep it under control.
7. Shiny, reddish-brown patches on your lower legs
This is necrobiosis lipoidica. The patches have a clear edge, feel tender, and sometimes open into sores. It shows up most in people whose blood sugar is hard to control.
6. Raised rings on your hands and feet
Called granuloma annulare. These are raised, ring-shaped bumps, red or skin-colored, most often on the fingers, hands, feet, and ankles. The cause isn't fully known, but an immune system reaction is believed to drive it.
5. Yellow, discolored nails
People with diabetes get fungal nail infections more often, and these turn nails yellow and discolored. Keep your feet clean and your nails trimmed short.
4. Painless blisters
Diabetic blisters are fluid-filled and painless. They pop up on your feet, hands, legs, and forearms and heal on their own. The real job is getting your blood sugar under control so more problems don't follow.
3. Brown spots on your shins
Small, round, light brown or red-brown patches on the front of your lower legs are called diabetic dermopathy, or shin spots. They don't hurt and don't need treatment, but they are linked to diabetes.







