Cholesterol & Triglycerides

[hensylee]

All you want to know. Dr Rich of About.com has six articles (one each day) on this subject. Very informative. If you care to partake, here's the address:

http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/cholesterol/a/choltri.htm

 

[Harrybaby666]

Hi Hensy...

Hi Hensy...

Hi There Hensy,

Thank You for this wonderful link...I do have to tell you that my tryglycerides have been so bad that I feel like my numbers came up from a slot machine...LOL I heard something else that I never heard of about this issue, and it is that they are trying to use insulin now to lower tryglycerides. A friend went to her endocrinologist and she was told the only reason she was taking insulin was to lower her tryglicerides...I just thought I would mention this too you in case you come across this, and hopefully, it will be of some help. Take care, Harrybaby666

 

[hensylee]

Now that you mention it, Harry, I did come across something along these lines last year. My brother is on coumadin and I take him every month for his INR. Well, the cardio office slipped in a lipids test without telling us, so brother had not fasted. Well the cardio called us, quite alarmed, because brother's triglycerides were up in the 7 or 8 hundreds. I was livid because you don't do that test without fasting, but they insisted he go for another one - after fasting. I asked what it could mean if his triglycerides were truly that high and she said that it could mean diabetes! I didn't know that - but if it turned out he really was heading down that diabetic road, then he'd surely be on insulin eventually. So, what you said, makes sense to me.

 

[Harrybaby666]

Mine were over 4000!!!

Mine were over 4000!!!

Morning Hensy,

Even though this was the first I had heard of it, it doesn't surprise me, because my triglycerides were over 4000 at one point. My doctors asked me why I wasn't having a stroke or heart attack and I told them I absolutely did not know why...however, I found out the hard way what happens when a person's triglycerides get way up there, as I ended up in the hospital 2 years ago with chronic pancreatitis, and this was a very rude awakening for me because when they have to put you in the hospital for pancreatitis, you cannot eat by mouth, instead, they feed you interveneously until your triglycerides come down to a manageable level. This was also the same time they found that my heart was messed up...I hope this helps your brother. Let me know how things go ok? Take Care, Harrybaby