Cholesterol Meds

I went to the doctor and he told me that my lipid panel does not improve, he would take me to put on cholesterol lowering. I know from experience these drugs are hard on the liver. I would rather go the natural route which he said fish oil tablets every day. If I stop eating this weekend, my triglycerides down before my next blood test? I cheated on my diet very bad and I need to get my cholesterol down.

happydawg,

Well, probably. You do not say how much you weigh, we can not say if the triglycerides are because of your weight or not.

Are your triglycerides down by the weekend? Maybe, but do not bet on it. You have to lose enough weight to bring it down substantially.

However, since you say that you cheat on your diet, I will assume that you are overweight. If you're not I apologize in advance.

But in this case, yes, finally.

Trigylcerides are the way we store fat. The more we weigh (fats) and simple carbohydrates we consume, the more our circulating levels of triglycerides. Sugar is a safe and some with high triglycerides. The meat and cheese is a great way to high cholesterol.

So you see what the problem is for you: weight and diet.

What are you doing? Find a way to stop eating as much. I'm sorry that it should be as simple, brutal and hard, but true.

How to do that?

1. Want to answer any to.The temptation is to want to do something more. Want to be healthier and not to go on a statin? Only if you really want to do. Do not cheat. At all. Ever. It will be frustrating, but you can do.

2. Then get a good book or a plan. Dean Ornish's book "Everyday Cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish is very good. Obtain and follow, or get a copy of the Mediterranean diet or the Portfolio diet, all of which have been shown to lower cholesterol (especially the first and third) helping us lose weight and replacing the bad fats in our diet with good. Ornish are cut completely, which is a little difficult to follow, but it will certainly. The Portfolio Diet replace saturated fats with monounsaturated fats and added plant sterols, which works well, too. In fact, it works as well as a first generation statin, such as lovastatin.

3. Exercise. It is so important to improve your lipid profile. It makes you less LDL and higher your HDL, all without doing anything physician. Walk - run if you can possibly - for one hour per day. This will make you almost as well as your change of regime. Combine the two and you make a big difference in your life.

But the first thing you have to do is get on the good food (for the rest of our lives) and quit cheating on your diet. It might not be all weekend, but it will happen.

In the meantime, remember that a statin is not as hard on the liver as your current status is on your heart. Statins can irritate your liver. Your current situation will damage your heart. What is most important at this time? Do not be afraid of one at least for a while. If you go on it (and maybe you should), you do not stay there. Lose weight and you just might be able to go outside.

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From what you said in your additional comments, it looks like your objectives and goals are all short term right now, the weekend, the next lipid panel. Look ahead, far ahead. What do you weigh in six months, and how many books a month do you have to lose to get there? What about next year? Five years from now? Look ahead.

And of course, cardiologists do not always do what they want to tell their patients to do, but this does not mean that we do not have to. Don &.