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Zetia was a big fail....my trigs were so high, they couldn't even read my LDL levels. Dr. put me back on Colestropol and gave me a hand-out regarding supplements - most of which I knew about already. I saw Red Yeast rice on there when I got home. I didn't have a chance to ask her if it was any safer than statins for the liver because it essentially works like lovastatin. I got to wonder if there is some differences in the statins because my liver enzymes went up when I started Lipitor. Now, it worked...cholesterol and trigs were much better, but my dr. said my dr. would not want me to go back on statins and put my liver at risk again. She said it would like getting rid of the witch to make room for the devil. (Love her bedside manner, ha ha!)
Colestropol didn't work as well as the statin but at least they could actually read my levels.
The trigs are the main concern now...then work on the LDL. My HDL has been great for a long time but I work out usually twice a day.
Colestropol didn't work as well as the statin but at least they could actually read my levels.
The trigs are the main concern now...then work on the LDL. My HDL has been great for a long time but I work out usually twice a day.
Trigs I would cut out most sugar and cut out all carbs. Not forever but
just until you get your next labs done and see if it helps.
It can be so frustrating to keep trying different things to be healthy. I'm glad your Cholesterol is good, that is a great plus, mine runs in the 300's
take care Dee.
Drinking good old Ozarka spring water or similar is the best drink on the planet. Since sugar sneaks up in so many beverages.
Cut back or eliminate alcoholic beverages since they spike trigs.
Lastly make sure thyroid hormone levels in the blood are where they need to be. Lack of thyroid hormone raises trigs. BIG TIME.
TSH test is not enough. Need FT4 and FT3.
Increase physical activity.
Thats it in a nutshell.
does for me. But my chol. has never been low [270-320]
Excellent point PixieW. You hit the nail on the head with that one. Sometimes we get so absorbed in treating numbers on a piece of paper, we forget about the well being of the patient.
great, I don't know what my labs are. I'm going by how I feel. My doc
thinks that now I'm feeling good on Armour my lipids should be better.
Well one can always hope.
We did try all the other thyroid meds and for me the Armour was a big
turn around.
My Cholesterol off niacor runs around 300 plus.
I'm glad to hear that about the lady in the nursing home. I have read that the older one gets the less the higher numbers of cholesterol count.
And yes we are all different.