Work frustrations

[Terri]

Amazing progress already! Congrats!

[Glenn_Graham]

Once things have plateaued for 3 months or so the Cholesterol can be re-evaluated.

I will do that, thanks

[Glenn_Graham]

Total cholesterol isn’t the issue. Triglycerides and LDL particle size is. If HDL is high and trigs low, generally LDL particle size should be large and fluffy. Statins, to my knowledge, have no effect on LDL particle size at all.

I total agree with your response, but my Doctor (who I have been with for 20 years) has not gotten this message. As near as I can tell many doctors haven’t. I hope they get it soon or at least stop pushing Statins as a miracle drug.

Oh and thanks for the link

[Stephanie]

My doc is the same way. I don’t mention what I’m doing other than “I’m working on eliminating all non-essential carbs. Then I follow that up with tells BG her how much of I’m really loving spinach, broccoli and cauliflower these days”. She can make her own conclusions. She hasn’t run any lipid labs on me. I ran them privately. As long as I’m loosing weight at each appt, she’s happy.

She knows I did LC before my DD came along. But doesn’t understand it or want to. I wish she did.

Ultimately, I’m responsible for my health and it’s better that way.

[acrunchyfrog]

I’m getting verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves.

[acrunchyfrog]

I would love to sue JCAHO so hard that they become allergic to acronyms. We stopped using them years ago.

[Jacquie]

Of course, I thought of the SNL Mike Myers Coffee Talk skit.