quick question

[Guest guest]

Thanks Terry. My husband's doctor just blasted him for his high cholesterol.

He phoned for his results and they just said it's 6.2. No explanation , no

details. Just 6.2. He requested the FULL test though. They won't fax it to

him. Geez. He has to go in to see the doc for the full results. Anyway ,

your email has been printed out and I am arming him with that to see the

doc.

He has been on Atkins with me since the start and has lost the same as me.

Naturally he is worried now.

Adri

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: Two of the components of your bloodwork are LDL and HDL.

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: LDL is Low Density Lipoproteins and HDL is High Density Lipoproteins. Our

: goal for reaching a good cholesterol number is to reduce the number of the

: LDL (bad cholesterol) and raise the number of the HDL (good cholesterol).

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: A ratio of HDL to total cholesterol is usually calculated, and I believe

: that it is recommended that the ratio not exceed 4.0. To calculate your

HDL

: to total cholesterol, you just divide the HDL number into the total

: cholesterol number. If it is 4.0 or less, that is considered acceptable.

: Of course, the lower the number, the better it is.

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: Triglycerides are important too. And we shoot for a low number of

: triglycerides. The higher the number, the more triglycerides you have

: floating around in your blood making it sticky and adhering cholesterol to

: the walls of your arteries. Limiting carbohydrates is the way to lower

: triglycerides, and that's why you see such dramatic improvements in the

: triglyceride numbers of people who are low carbing.

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: The last time I had my cholesterol checked, these were my numbers, and my

: doctor said they were excellent, even though my total cholesterol was

: slightly over 200.

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: Total cholesterol -- 211

: HDL cholesterol -- 72

: HDL Ratio -- 2.9

: LDL cholesterol -- 127

: Triglycerides -- 58

:

: Hope this helps.

:

: Terry

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[Guest guest]

Thanks for all the answers. I am really worried about him. He has lost 30

lb's since May 2000.

He is still in his twenties so it's quite a problem, I think. Don't laugh ,

I am older than him. LOL

Anyway, that aside. Here are the results:

Triglycerides 2.21

Total Cholesterol 6.45 (5.20 is acceptable)

HDL .84 (low)

LDL 4.29 (high)

I need to convert these results so I can compare with you people. There are

no Atkins support lists here in South Africa. Obviously the doctor wants him

to cut out red meat now.I am thinking he needs L-Carnitine in a big hurry.

His father died of a heart attack in his early forties. Wayne is only about

25 pounds from goal.

Adri

[Guest guest]

I say "Bingo!". My brother, who is 4 yrs older than me, passed away in 1998, indirectly (or directly, depending on how you look at it) from bipolar disorder. He was extremely intellectual but all was ruined because from around the age of 13 or so, something was never right about him. He made straight A's in school, yet quit school and was always going cross-country, binge-drinking, and was finally diagnosed as bipolar 1, at about the age of 42 or so, after being brought in with a wet brain from all the alcohol he "treated" it with, through the yrs. (Too bad he didn't know this doctor many yrs before). He lost his nursing license, his wife and kids, and many of you know this story well, but there is something that I think about now, often. he always had these large round brown eyes, but I remember that somewhere in his midteens, his eyes seemed to almost come out of his head, larger, more protruded, etc...He was always nervous, everywhere he went. He didn't think straight from his teens onward, even though he had a high Iq. He went from doctor to doctor (was not a drug addict, but an alcoholic, eventually) looking for what was wrong with him. He had stomach problems, but here again, were these seizures as a baby, as I did. I truly believe now that he had a thyroid that simply never quit running on overtime. I believe that strongly. Not to scare anyone, but it's a good idea to have this bloodwork, early on.

Tx

Re: quick question

wow thats interesting about the bi polar thing I hadn't heard anything about that but glad you said something about it cause my mother had thyroid problems i'm not sure what because i'm adopted and only told she did, but she also had bi poloar and so does my real father

thanks for the info

becca

[Guest guest]

Bipolar is highly correlated with Thyroid Disease as is depression, anxiety, panic, and even eating disorders.

Feisty

Re: quick question

wow thats interesting about the bi polar thing I hadn't heard anything about that but glad you said something about it cause my mother had thyroid problems i'm not sure what because i'm adopted and only told she did, but she also had bi poloar and so does my real father

thanks for the info

becca

[Guest guest]

Yes, I strongly believe this, according to all the evidence, both personal and technical. I had some of these problems myself, but crashed into hypo overtime, though I'm thinking that the thyroiditis is rearing it's ugly little head, in the space of a couple of yrs or so. My brother and I were separated so much, due to his escapades, though, and I would not have known the things that I know now about this, at that time. I'm as sure of what his real disease was, as I am of my own name.

Tx

Re: quick question

Bipolar is highly correlated with Thyroid Disease as is depression, anxiety, panic, and even eating disorders.

Feisty