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2 Responses to “I have both bad numbers in the HDL and LDL category – how much does my family history count for?”
Your family history plays a large part in this problem. You should ask your doctor to refer you onto a cardiologist who should be able to help you with the problem. You need to be monitored when you’re changing your life style.
There is a disease know as FAMILIAL HYPERLYPODEMIA, a facny word for “inherited high cholesterols”. Runs in my family. When I’m healthy, I have trouble staying below 300. But I have diabetes, and my last measurment was 550.
When I was first diagnosed, my total cholesterol reading was OVER 5000! In fact, I went through a period where I sold my blood to testing laboratories, because most machines can’t test that high, and it require special procedures to read.
[I can't fall over dead -- my body is too stiff to fall over!]
I finally got the diabetes under control, and the readings dropped down in the 300 range, and that’s WITH the usual “statins” treatments.
There are some newer medications that treat bodily-produced cholesterol (as opposed to ingested) but they don’t work all that great for me.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:22 am
jackmorr
Your family history plays a large part in this problem. You should ask your doctor to refer you onto a cardiologist who should be able to help you with the problem. You need to be monitored when you’re changing your life style.
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:54 am
carrie
Your genetics still play a big factor.
There is a disease know as FAMILIAL HYPERLYPODEMIA, a facny word for “inherited high cholesterols”. Runs in my family. When I’m healthy, I have trouble staying below 300. But I have diabetes, and my last measurment was 550.
When I was first diagnosed, my total cholesterol reading was OVER 5000! In fact, I went through a period where I sold my blood to testing laboratories, because most machines can’t test that high, and it require special procedures to read.
[I can't fall over dead -- my body is too stiff to fall over!]
I finally got the diabetes under control, and the readings dropped down in the 300 range, and that’s WITH the usual “statins” treatments.
There are some newer medications that treat bodily-produced cholesterol (as opposed to ingested) but they don’t work all that great for me.