[AT] Welding Advice

[Mike]

Farmer,
My Dr. would be thrilled with your first set of numbers! Those aren't 
bad at all.

Mike M


On 2/23/2015 2:25 PM, Indiana Robinson 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"...
>