Guest guest Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 ty Janet B. Surgery date 7/23/03 310/190/150? BTC/ Columbus OH Dr.Stelmack Open RNY Re: Fw: Oh wise ones > > Now my second question is that my pcp said that I am not absorbing cholesterol and this means I am slowly starving to death. I said laughing well that won't happen for a while. My level says it is 92. I would think that not absorbing cholesterol is a good thing because isn't cholesterol bad for you ? Thank you for any help you can give me I am going to ask my surgeon on Friday about this so I will let you know what he says too.> > B. ==================== Cholesterol is a naturally occurring substance in your body and its purpose is to help the nerve system in some way ( must go look it up as I do not really remember ). Cholesterol also comes in food in two ways HDL's and LDL's: HDL's are good cholesterol, and LDL's are bad. janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 that's funny i have high cholesterol and they gave me zeta pills for it because it stop the cholesterol in our food before it gets to my liver and I'm not going to die from it ( jokingly not anything against you or doc) because our liver makes all the cholesterol our body need to survive and that is what i have been told , but if it wasn't true than these pills can cause me a real problem good luck Shirley of Fontana so cal " Janet P. Whiddon " wrote: > > Now my second question is that my pcp said that I am not absorbing cholesterol and this means I am slowly starving to death. I said laughing well that won't happen for a while. My level says it is 92. I would think that not absorbing cholesterol is a good thing because isn't cholesterol bad for you ? Thank you for any help you can give me I am going to ask my surgeon on Friday about this so I will let you know what he says too.> > B. ==================== Cholesterol is a naturally occurring substance in your body and its purpose is to help the nerve system in some way ( must go look it up as I do not really remember ). Cholesterol also comes in food in two ways HDL's and LDL's: HDL's are good cholesterol, and LDL's are bad. janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 ty you Shirley, I'm sure my surgeon is going to tell me something along that line also. B. Surgery date 7/23/03 310/190/150? BTC/ Columbus OH Dr.Stelmack Open RNY Re: Re: Fw: Oh wise ones that's funny i have high cholesterol and they gave me zeta pills for it because it stop the cholesterol in our food before it gets to my liver and I'm not going to die from it ( jokingly not anything against you or doc) because our liver makes all the cholesterol our body need to survive and that is what i have been told , but if it wasn't true than these pills can cause me a real problem good luck Shirley of Fontana so cal " Janet P. Whiddon " wrote: > > Now my second question is that my pcp said that I am not absorbing cholesterol and this means I am slowly starving to death. I said laughing well that won't happen for a while. My level says it is 92. I would think that not absorbing cholesterol is a good thing because isn't cholesterol bad for you ? Thank you for any help you can give me I am going to ask my surgeon on Friday about this so I will let you know what he says too.> > B. ==================== Cholesterol is a naturally occurring substance in your body and its purpose is to help the nerve system in some way ( must go look it up as I do not really remember ). Cholesterol also comes in food in two ways HDL's and LDL's: HDL's are good cholesterol, and LDL's are bad. janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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