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Can you diabetes without excessive thirst. i've been having frequent urination but i'm not thirsty all the time?

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Dr. Edgar Mendizabal answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Probably not: You have frequent urination but no large volume because you cannot create water. So if you don't drink it, it is not there.

Answered 11/28/2013

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Yes!!: Early, 'mild' diabetes have no symtoms at all, but damage tissues.

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