The gig is up......I had an appointment a couple weeks ago with my GP. He did all the usual office questions and checks and sent me away with a lab requisition for blood test and mammogram. He asked me to make another appointment in a few weeks to discuss the report. I asked Old Doc Webster if we could leave it as "no news is good news"? He agreed. Last week the nurse called and said he wanted to see me, not an urgent matter. I was pretty sure it was going to be about my cholesterol. Last year, my blood work showed elevated levels of cholesterol and I was given a sheet of information with diet suggestions. The sheet got tossed on the floor of the van and after a few weeks of being pushed around and stepped on I scraped it off the floor and tossed it out. The levels were borderline and everyone knows how I love to diet! Now the levels are high. Not off the chart high but getting there. Time to get serious about this........ grr-r-r-r-r-r
(all the other tests were good)
Cholesterol is a waxy, fatlike substance that your body needs to function normally. Cholesterol is naturally present in cell walls or membranes everywhere in the body, including the brain, nerves, muscles, skin, liver, intestines, and heart.
Your body uses cholesterol to produce many hormones, vitamin D, and the bile acids that help to digest fat. It takes only a small amount of cholesterol in the blood to meet these needs. If you have too much cholesterol in your bloodstream, the excess may be deposited in arteries, including the coronary (heart) arteries, where it contributes to the narrowing and blockages that cause the signs and symptoms of heart disease.
Your body uses cholesterol to produce many hormones, vitamin D, and the bile acids that help to digest fat. It takes only a small amount of cholesterol in the blood to meet these needs. If you have too much cholesterol in your bloodstream, the excess may be deposited in arteries, including the coronary (heart) arteries, where it contributes to the narrowing and blockages that cause the signs and symptoms of heart disease.
◦High cholesterol is more common in women older than 55 years.
◦The risk for high cholesterol increases with age.
◦The risk for high cholesterol increases with age.
Dodi -
ReplyDeleteSame as me - I was on Lipitor before all this surgery and treatment - I stopped taking it during chemo (just because I couldn't multi-task), and my cholesterol jumped back up to 300. Now I am back on Lipitor and will get my levels checked in mid-November. It should go back down to 150+ . . . all I know is that the statin drugs really work. My dad, who is 90, and who has never been sick a day in his life, just had his cholesterol checked and it was 199. My dad eats ice cream and cake every day - he loves sweets.
We'll get you on a low-cholestrol diet while you are down here.
ReplyDeleteHi, Dodi, my girlfriend who also had cancer treatment found that her cholesterol went way up afterwards and was temporary. Not that watching diet wouldn't hurt us :-(, but you might want to do a bit more research into this as well.
ReplyDeleteHope you are having fun. T.