How high is your Cholesterol??
 

My total cholesterol is 132 ...

How high is yours?? :winkwink:

Mine is 7.9 but I dont what scale that is on.... Its meant to be under 5 I think

wrong thread?

Uh if thats for real, Id go see a doc, with medication it can be lowered a LOT.

errr...... no :)

It was an answer to your question.... we use a different scale here

you mean the rate LDL (bad) to HDL (good) ...

Im trying with diet at the moment... I went on the Aktins for a while and thats what screwed me

I have also been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes so I have got to be really careful - paying for my mispent youth I suppose.

whats your icq?

I posted that info here
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=471428

6377971 - Im offline at the moment.... Im having the day off and drinking some vino - I heard it was good for you - lol - If I put ICQ on it will go bonkers, I have been off all day.

Hit me up tomorrow though if you remember

a big mac with extra cheese.....is that high?

k np, just wanted to share some experience :) 7.9 is troublesome, but I guess you know... oh and a bm with extra cheese is bout 3 weeks supply sat fat for me yeah...

lol... That reminds me what my Dr said when he gave me the results...... "well the good news is there is still some blood left in your fat stream....."

Actually I didnt have to put up with extreme measures, Im no fastfood junky, but some things like sauceges or spareribs etc are history... but its cool... I like to live a bit longer :)

Damn... I love chinese spare ribs.... but the sugar would kill me now as well

im afraid to check. I eat a lot of shit!

me too uh cha siew? how do you spell that... anyhow thats pure poison...

It was getting pretty bad, that's why I switched to an all veggie diet.

I find out in the am I'll keep ya posted

that's in mmol/L and definitely too high. It's time for you to see a doctor about that. A healthy diet can lower total cholesterol by as much as 10-20%, the rest will need to be done medically.

me too, fish, beef and veggies and nothing like cocos and so on

post some numbers please ...

yeah it is I know, 8.5 and up is treated as serious heart attack problem zone here in Holland

Total cholesterol is 140

5.2 with med and a diet and thats a lot better then most ppl have and dont know bout :)

no he doesn't, there is a world outside of the US where people use rational scales, not mg/dl like in US.

that's alright. In the netherlands the target is 5.0 mmol/L, US is a little more strict with 4.5 total.

how to get the mmol/L from the mg/dl value?

Yeah Im happy with 5.2, whole range of relatives with fam chol trouble so it was time to act. Got my Lipitor on my desk even now. I mean whats there to do, take 1 tablet a day and skip the mayo. Its worth not getting a stroke at 40.

dunno, but i guess pretty low, since i barely eat any fat stuff :thumbsup

It depends on the molar weight of the molecule, I don't know it by heart for cholesterol, try google :winkwink:

"To convert mmol/l of HDL or LDL cholesterol to mg/dl, multiply by 39.
To convert mg/dl of HDL or LDL cholesterol to mmol/l, divide by 39."

just found it. divide by 39.

132 => 3,4 mmol/L :)

Why dont you know....?

Useless :)

err 3,4? thats extremely low you sure?

yep, i'm sure. :)

well thats cool then, youre a healthy guy :)

I take Lipitor and my total is 215. 132 seems awfully low.

Got no problem wityh my cholesterol level.

My total cholesterol is 197

According to the doc,I'm a walking heart attack waiting to happen :(

Mine was 386 about a year ago. Got put on Tricor and it is around 220 now.

220, doc said i have 3 months to try to get it down to 200

Don't do what I did and assume that because your diet is reasonable, cholesterol is a non-issue. It will be 10 years ago come November that I discovered how wrong that idea is.

Like many people - I have since learned - I have a genetic flaw which means that I produce too much cholesterol. So much, that even on a perfect diet the result would have been the same. And don't imagine that because you appear healthy, the damage isn't happening: I used to catch an occasional cold, but otherwise I seemed in perfect health right up until a few hours before I ended up in a cardiac unit. I wasn't overweight at all and with walking a lot, gardening and the like, I was fairly fit.

The other thing to bear in mind is that although many patients respond to treatment very positively, there are no guarantees. A lot of heart attack victims do not survive even the first attack, or as in my case, years of treatment and medication have kept me alive, but my 80-year-old neighbor mows my yard because he is in better health than I am at only 55.

At least once every 5 years, preferably annually, spend the few minutes it takes to have your cholesterol checked. It is absolutely not an aspect of your health with which to take chances.

160 doc said it was good

I don't know... but I bet it's pretty high.

145 the last time i was in

Between 4.5 and 4.7 with the help of Simvastatin

phey seems Im not the only one, well glad mines back to normal :)