Ill show you mine, if you show me yours.

[Desertthorn]

Went and picked up my blood work. Not so good, not so bad

cholesterol 226 Last year 298
Triglyceride 51 Last year 57
HDL 85 Last year 70
VLDL 10 Last Year 11
LDL 131 Last Year 217

Ill live I guess,

For those who are new, there was a very stressful 6 months in that time frame when I did not do low carb.

[2big4mysize]

:joy :icondance :joy :icondance :joy :icondance :joy :icondance :joy :icondance

somebody needs to interpret those numbers for you LOL or are you a drama queen. :hug :hug :hug

your total is high but this is where they say yes but look at the components and see why?

your LDL is 1 fricking point too high. 1!!!!!!!!
your triglicerides are fantanstic woo hoo

and this is why
your HDL is great and better then average. very much what every doctor would want for his patient!
which is great. very healthy!!!!! giving you a ratio of 2.65 :joy :icondance :joy :icondance :joy :icondance :joy :icondance doctors expect us to be under 5 and between 3-5 is where they want you when they put you on cholesterol drugs. You should be writing a book about how you lowered your cholesterol in a very stressful time.

[Desertthorn]

Me, a drama queen. ensive ensive ensive ensive
Maybe a little bit. 2big, the doc calls and tells me that my cholesterol is high, he said, not bad but high and watch my sat fats. And so I went and got a copy. ****, I can never remember which is suppose to be good the bad or the ugly... LDLs or the HDLs ... they are all alphabets to me.
But, since I trust you more than I do my little pill pushing specialist of a doctor, I will take your word for it that my blood work is great and instead of going home to bake NLs chocolate cake and drown my sorrows, I will go home and cook up bikers pizza to take with me to Ninja village tomorrow.

[2big4mysize]

oh oh oh can I come too

[TWTMhomeschoolMom]

Originally Posted by Desertthorn

cholesterol 226 Last year 298
Triglyceride 51 Last year 57
HDL 85 Last year 70
VLDL 10 Last Year 11
LDL 131 Last Year 217

HEY, those are GREAT numbers, really.

Here's a trick someone told me to figure the LDL and HDL out --- you want the LDL to be LOW, and you want the HDL to be HIGH.

well mine are bad
and have gone way up since this woe ...so I am not showing you anything ...I made a few changes and am bumping up the exercise...in 90 days and I will recheck and if it is not lower I am going to have to do something drastic like cut fats big time!....my numbers were much better last year!.... :no

[shawnee]

Lynne HDL way above your tryglycerides is VERY GOOD

Doc's think your fantastic if they're equal.

[love2beeamom]

Okay, just had my cholesterol checked for the first time in many years. What do you think?

They didn't tell me my triglycerides..so I guess they were okay. SHe just gave me the abnormals she said:

My total cholesterol was 198
HDL 73
LDL 116

They told me that all my numbers were alittle high.. But I know that my HDL is supposed to be high, right?

[2big4mysize]

unless you have a heart condition or have diabetus your levels are great!!!!!!!
you want tot total to be under 200 the ratio of the total to the HDL to be between 3-5 ans you are under 3 wooo hooo great job there!!!!!

noirmal LDL is now 130 but may soon go lower as more and more is discovered about that little bugger.

Your HDL should be above 40 as a femal and you are well above that and more of HDL is better and better. think of it as the healthy density lipid instead of the high density lipid and you will see why.

Again congrats to you