[AT] Welding Advice

[Stephen Offiler]

Your numbers from June '14 on 20mg dose are pretty good and it's lunacy (as
you already know!) to bump you up from that dose.  Frankly I'm wondering
what your numbers would look like if you were on 0mg.  The *really*
interesting numbers are HDL and triglycerides and the ratio between them.
HDL should be high and trigylcerides should be low, so the ratio of
TriG:HDL, smaller is better.  Under 2 is indeed the commonly accepted
goal.  LDL is the one that everyone focuses on, and it's also the one that
is most widely misunderstood and misinterpreted.  If you can't measure the
*particle count* of LDL (which is rarely measured) then it's better to quit
worrying about it altogether and just shoot for high HDL with low TriG.
Easy to drop TriG by reducing carbs in your diet.  HDL is increased mostly
by modest exercise, avoiding smoking, and dropping a few lbs if you've got
a few to drop.

SO


On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Dan Glass <dglass at numail.org> wrote:
>
> > Another bad side effect was depression.  Not the clinical kind that
> > everyone hears about.  It just makes you want to do nothing.  You are
> > not in the mood to do anything but sit in your recliner.  And that is
> > bad, especially with all the tractors that need work.
> > I might have mentioned it was prescribed because of a misdiagnosis. I
> > had a condition I got from a tick bite called babiosis. I finally
> > figured it out myself and told the doctors and they said they knew
> > nothing about that and I finally got a personal friend of mine that was
> > a doctor to prescribe the treatment.  After suffering with this for over
> > a year, the proper medicine knocked it out in a couple of days.
> >
> >
>
> I agree Dan. I don't believe in Zombies but yet I was becoming one... I
> won't let that happen again.
>
> Below are my awful numbers that prompted someone at my cardiologist office
> to decide that I needed immediately to jump from 20 mg of Lipitor to 80 mg.
> The top set of numbers is what my test said about June of 2014 after being
> on 20 mg. The lower set is what they were in October 2014 after being on
> the 80 mg for the summer. Right now I am taking 20 mg a day again after a
> couple of weeks of nothing. He wants me to bump it to 40 mg soon but I'm
> staying on 20 mg until my next blood-work in April.
>
> These numbers are a copy & paste so I don't know how they will format...
>
> About June 2014
> Your Total Cholesterol of 137 is DESIRABLE
> Your LDL of 80 is OPTIMAL
> Your HDL of 48 is NORMAL
> Your Triglyceride level of 105 is NORMAL RATIOS: Your Total Cholesterol/HDL
> ratio is: 2.85 - (preferably under 5.0, ideally under 3.5)IDEAL
> Your LDL/HDL ratio is: 1.667 - (preferably under 5.0, ideally under 2.0)
> IDEAL
> Your triglycerides/HDL ratio is: 2.188 - (preferably under 4, ideally under
> 2) NORMAL
>
>
>
>  __________________________________________________
>
> 10-13-2014
> Your Total Cholesterol of 115 is DESIRABLE
> Your LDL of 61 is OPTIMAL
> Your HDL of 52 is NORMAL
> Your Triglyceride level of 77 is NORMAL RATIOS: Your Total Cholesterol/HDL
> ratio is: 2.21 - (preferably under 5.0, ideally under 3.5) IDEAL
> Your LDL/HDL ratio is: 1.173 - (preferably under 5.0, ideally under 2.0)
> IDEAL
> Your triglycerides/HDL ratio is: 1.481 - (preferably under 4, ideally under
> 2) IDEAL
>
> ------------------------------------------
>
>
> What happens next depends on whether or not any side effects return or not.
> I still need to chat further with my GP as to why I am still seeing a
> specialist. I want to hear "end dates", not "forever for the rest of your
> life"...
>
> --
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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