Cholesterol?

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

I've been told that my cholesterol levels are quite high and I wondered

whether this was part of my CP - or just another random symptom.

I don't really know where my body gets its cholesterol from since I

follow a low-fat vegetarian diet.

Hopefully I'll get some meds to control the levels - is there anyone out

there with any experience?

Hope you all have good and pain free weekends

Rosie

[Guest guest]

Rosie,

I'm not sure whether this is a part of the CP saga, but I do know that

diabetes can alter it tremendously. For example, after I had CP for

two years, I had an LDL of 88. The doctors were pleased with this. I

had just been diagnosed with pancreatitis caused Type 1 diabetes. In

the two years since then, my LDL has increased to 138, which has my

Endocrinologist climbing down my neck about cholesterol. They don't

want a diabetics LDL to be any higher than 100. The doctor knows that

I eat a low fat diet and am very strict with my diet, yet the

cholesterol levels keep climbing.

As a result, he just started me on cholesterol medicine, Vytorin, last

month, which will hopefully help lower my levels. I don't know

whether to blame it on the diabetes, the CP, or genetics! My father

has had two heart attacks, and is on cholesterol medication because of

that, but no one else in my family, his family or my relatives, has

had any cholesterol problems.

If it is a problem for you, hopefully your doctor will prescribe

something to help lower it.

With love, hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

www.pancassociation.org/anthology#Heidi.html

Bluffton, SC

SC State & SE Regional Representative

Pancreatitis Association, International

www.health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pancreatitis/

Note: All comments or advice are personal opinion only, and should

not be substituted for professional medical consultation.