Very high cholesterol

[S-Westerly]

5 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

well if it as a really nice nurse you'll probably pop most vessels and arteries eh before they start. lol.

Hmm no? My wife's a nurse and they are all monsters. Stab you with needles, bleed you any which way and won't even blink an eye. 

[onesea]

Just thought I would add to this thread, I listened to ultra processed people.

 

One comment came out of a podcast associated with it. 

• Supermarket bread

I was guilty very guilty, 4 to 6 slices a day.

One person commented they even bought a bread maker to avoid it. 

I had looked at my diet and what I would change. I wasn't to bad for processed foods.

• I could ditch ready meals before my late shifts# 1or2 days a week,
• I already had a bread maker, so now every 3-4 days we use it*

 

The effect? 

I cannot think of any other significant changes to my diet or life style.

 

I am not very good at monitoring my weight, hence recent number of weigh ins to check. 

 

I will now be looking at labels a little closer.

 

#ready meals - often cheapest stodge.

Changed out for other often more calorific meals.  Pasta with cheese, more bread, baked beans, sausages, burgers, eggs, fried potato, air fried chips etc.  Just with less processing/ additives.

 

*Home made bread - This takes 10 minutes or 3 hours.

Bread machine makes dough, 1h20m

Microwave proves dough for 1 h, (airing cupboard will do as well I am told),

20 minutes in oven,

That way we get regular shaped bread without the mixer paddle,

 

Edited May 16, 2024 by onesea

[Tinkicker]

I have had the misfortune to get in the tight grasp of the medical profession since my bout of pneumonia.

 

The buggers are not willing to let me go, now I have been within their orbit.  I have been "appointed" to take a battery of tests with more booked in the future.

I have been hooked up to a heart monitor, lung function machine, blood pressure, much blood taken.  Ordered back to the quacks surgery to get my time honoured kick up the backside...

Heart OK.

Lungs OK.  I have better function than the average, despite being an asthmatic.

No sign of diabetes.

Blood pressure 138/88 as an average over the week.  My target is 135/85 for my age.

Cholesterol.  Hmm. He said I had a QRisk score of 13 whatever that means. He said he was considering drug intervention.

 

No sirree bob, says I.  No way am I taking statins.  Quack got a bit sniffy over this statement, but then then discussed lifestyle changes.

 

Not going mad with it, but:

Reducing my added sugar intake by half by having the one sugar in my coffee instead of two.  This will cut 4 spoons of sugar a day.

Alcohol.  18 440ml cans of lager per week, friday to Sunday.  No alteration.  I have never smoked or done drugs.  I need some vice.

Cutting out red meat completely, not that I eat much of it, my favourite meat is chicken.  I do enjoy the occasional bacon and sausage butty.

Cutting out much processed foods.

Replacing all my best butter with Benecol cholesterol reducing spreads.

Drinking Benecol one a day bottles of yoghurt.

Being more active.  I have already explained to the missus that allowing me to tie her to the bedposts is good for my heart and surely this can only be a good thing...  Oh and more walking/ cycling.

 

The quack still peeved, thought carefully for his revenge.  I have been booked in for more blood to be taken because he wants to test it for signs of prostrate problems.  I am not looking to the "review" appointment.  Dunno why, I can see no need of it.  No change in the way I piss or other problems.

Pure revenge.

Now TK.  If you would care to drop your trousers"...  I trust you are not allergic to latex hmm"? 

[Yorky]

1 hour ago, Tinkicker said:

Alcohol.  18 440ml cans of lager per week, friday to Sunday.

I would have thought that the quack would consider 6 cans a day for 3 consecutive days to be too much??

[Tinkicker]

Did not have a say in the matter.  Who wants to live forever in a doctors and dieticians world.

 

I never expected to see 30 the way I used to do the most dangerous stuff for fun.  Hitting 60 is a bonus.

[S-Westerly]

I was put on statins, tried for 4 months and found I reacted badly to them and said enough. Peeved medics found an alternative which seems to work without any of the side effects for me.

[Tiggie]

I now hover between 83 and 84kg   (13st 1lb - 13st 3lb)  so thats 13kg (28lbs) down so far 

 

I'm nowhere near as militant as I was in January,  Will have a takeaway once a week, I'll have a drink on a night but not the next night. I am mainly just keeping to a diet of avoiding excess sugar which has been easy enough to sustain. Oh, and I now take protein bars to eat at work instead of the food there 

 

 

[Tinkicker]

I did a bit of research into this risk score thingy, the doctor was bleating about.  Turns out that my risk is on the low end of "moderate".

A score of 10 is considered in the normal range and a score of 11 - 20 is moderate.

 

Of course, I can see the need to reduce my cholesterol down to 10 or below and will continue with my tying the missus to the bed and other " adjustments" to my lifestyle, but I can see no reason why doctors try to put the fear of god into you for slightly above the norm readings.

I am more concerned about my blood pressure.  I was no stranger to emergency rooms in my youth as yet another high speed stunt went crashingly wrong and my blood pressure was always around 118/70.

To find it to be 138/88 was a bit disconcerting.

Edited May 19, 2024 by Tinkicker

[Mawsley]

On 27/02/2024 at 09:17, Nick the wanderer said:

I think that happens to a lot of folk. The same thing happened to my wife on a recent check up. Sent her home with a bp kit and she had to log it over a week, all perfectly normal at home.

They do that with me once a year - and once a year I send them back a set of readings I made up while drinking a coffee. Everyone is happy. 

[Mawsley]

On 18/05/2024 at 22:54, S-Westerly said:

I was put on statins, tried for 4 months and found I reacted badly to them and said enough. Peeved medics found an alternative which seems to work without any of the side effects for me.

Mine began to be a bit debilitating after flourish months too. I stopped taking them for a fortnight as advised - and then they dropped them from my script. I suppose I ought to remind them at some point.