The Cholesterol Myth & Why Statins Suck (especially for women)

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Holly,

Thank you! I firmly believe this. We worked hard to get DH's sister

off statins after being horrified at her memory loss and personality

changes a couple of years ago, and now I'm working on my other SIL

who has other side effects from it.

An excellent job of gathering the info!

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Glad I could help!

In March my numbers were:

Total Cholesterol: 314

HDL: 87

LDL: 211

Triglycerides: 80

Scary, right?

But not according to the following:

HDL percentage is a very potent heart disease risk factor. Just divide your HDL

level by your total cholesterol. That percentage should ideally be above 24

percent (mine is 27.7).

You can also do the same thing with your triglycerides and HDL ratio. That

percentage should be below 2. The ratio of triglycerides to HDL was the

strongest predictor of a heart attack, even more accurate than the LDL/HDL ratio

(mine is 0.92).

I wonder what my doc will have to say about this? Oh, and this is taking into

account a test that was probably inaccurate. My LDL has never been this high

before, and my subsequent LDL test taken 2 months later was back down to 161, my

typical number. Which means my ratios are even better then what is shown above.

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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Holly,

I'll bet your next test will be back down to what is normal to you.

What's sad is, that " high " number could have been an anomaly

for any number of reasons, or just plain a lab mistake of some

kind. But most docs would just want to slap you with a prescription

for statins right then.

I've had something similar. My total cholesterol hasn't been above

200 for decades. But often my lab sheet comes back with HDH flagged

as too low. Well, it isn't! My ratio is always very good only

because my total number is pretty low, the HDL can be lower than they

think is good because the ratio is fine.

We have to be ever-vigilant about these things, as with many

others.

Glad I could help!

In March my numbers were:

Total Cholesterol: 314

HDL: 87

LDL: 211

Triglycerides: 80

Scary, right?

But not according to the following:

HDL percentage is a very potent heart disease risk factor. Just

divide your HDL level by your total cholesterol. That percentage should

ideally be above 24 percent (mine is 27.7).

You can also do the same thing with your triglycerides and HDL ratio.

That percentage should be below 2. The ratio of triglycerides to HDL was

the strongest predictor of a heart attack, even more accurate than the

LDL/HDL ratio (mine is 0.92).

I wonder what my doc will have to say about this? Oh, and this is

taking into account a test that was probably inaccurate. My LDL has never

been this high before, and my subsequent LDL test taken 2 months later

was back down to 161, my typical number. Which means my ratios are even

better then what is shown above.

Holly

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Damn Damn Damn! The pantethine didn't help my LDL at all. It's still 161. My HDL

is still 87. The only change was my triglycerides went from 80 to 75.

The good news is, my doctor was sick so I didn't have to discuss the results. I

got them to give me a print out of my blood test anyway, so I now have the

advantage of fine tuning my argument against statins.

My folate and B12 are high! Who ever heard of a crohn's patient having high

folate and B12? Me thinks SCD is to thank :-).

Oh, and my liver enzymes are up...again. And my TSH was up...again. Will I be

able to convince my doc to do a full thyroid panel for me? Probably not. Come

the new year, I may got on the search for a new primary care...again.

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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This is what I'm taking to my

doctor on Wednesday.

Holly, you're going to have to SAVE this as something other than a .docx

file -- it's unreadable by anyone who doesn't have the latest version of

Word.You can download a converter update from Microsoft so that you can open them. I had to do that and it does work. This should be the one: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466 & displaylang=enAmelia

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Here are both documents, saved in Word 97-2003. Statins is a mondo document, 118 pages long I think. It has complete articles and the sources. Statins2 is a much abbreviated document (6 pages). I tried to hit the high points in it so that I can discuss them with my doctor, and I cut out most of the sources to save space. If anyone has trouble opening these, let me know, and I can try reposting under a different format.My next document project...the thyroid.HollyCrohn'sSCD 12/01/08

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