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Apologies for the long post but looking for advice and encouragement.
Had my bloods taken at the beginning of the week and HbA1c has returned 38 one point down on a year ago so I'm happy with that, all other checks look good as well except for cholesterol!. At the beginning of my diabetes journey, test results saw my cholesterol in the 4s, I took up low carb and 6 months later my test came back at 6.7, a bit of a rise. I posted to this forum and was encouraged by what I read and the advice I received it was mentioned that as I was losing weight my cholesterol may been all over the place, that I was probably a hyper responder and that once my weight stabilised it was likely that my cholesterol would as well. I argued at my DN review against statins and continued my low carb way of eating which is keeping my bloods stable without having to take tablets for which I am so thankful.
I stopped losing weight around December so I was hoping my cholesterol would come back lower this HbA1c but not so! My cholesterol has come back at 10! As you can imagine I got a bit of a shock. I learned of the results when I received a phone call from the practice today, they want me to take another fasting blood test and doc (not my usual doc) wants to see me when I get the results. I had already fasted for this one so the results are unlikely to be different. I got over it when my results were 6.7 but I admit to being quite concerned now they are 10, I think I will have a pretty uncomfortable visit with the doc but I will be asking to try to deal with this by diet but not sure how? How do you lower you cholesterol whilst eating low carb and high fat has anyone done this and can they advise?
My cholesterol test results are below. As mentioned previously on this forum, I have put them through both Hugh's Calculator https://www.hughcalc.org/chol-si.php and Dave Feldman's checker, https://cholesterolcode.com/report/ but the results are very different, I would be interested if anyone has got any opinion of which calculator is the best one to consider?
Thanks in advance.
Results are:
Serum Cholesterol 10
Serum Triglycerides 0.9
HDL Cholesterol 1.9
LDL 7.69 (I think)
Dave Feldman's calculator
Atherogenic Index of Plasma: -0.325 mg/dL = Lowest Risk Third
Low Risk <––-0.325––•––––––––––•––––––––––> High Risk
Framingham Offspring: 0.7 Odds Ratio = Low Risk
Low Risk <–––•0.7•–––•–––•–––•–––•–––•–––•–––•–––•–––> High Risk
Jeppesen risk tertial: Lowest Risk Third
Low Risk <––––[X]––––•––––––––––•––––––––––> High Risk
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Hugh's Calc
Your Total Cholesterol of 10.00 is HIGH RISK
Your LDL of 7.69 is VERY HIGH RISK
Your HDL of 1.9 is OPTIMAL
Your Triglyceride level of 0.89 is NORMAL
Had my bloods taken at the beginning of the week and HbA1c has returned 38 one point down on a year ago so I'm happy with that, all other checks look good as well except for cholesterol!. At the beginning of my diabetes journey, test results saw my cholesterol in the 4s, I took up low carb and 6 months later my test came back at 6.7, a bit of a rise. I posted to this forum and was encouraged by what I read and the advice I received it was mentioned that as I was losing weight my cholesterol may been all over the place, that I was probably a hyper responder and that once my weight stabilised it was likely that my cholesterol would as well. I argued at my DN review against statins and continued my low carb way of eating which is keeping my bloods stable without having to take tablets for which I am so thankful.
I stopped losing weight around December so I was hoping my cholesterol would come back lower this HbA1c but not so! My cholesterol has come back at 10! As you can imagine I got a bit of a shock. I learned of the results when I received a phone call from the practice today, they want me to take another fasting blood test and doc (not my usual doc) wants to see me when I get the results. I had already fasted for this one so the results are unlikely to be different. I got over it when my results were 6.7 but I admit to being quite concerned now they are 10, I think I will have a pretty uncomfortable visit with the doc but I will be asking to try to deal with this by diet but not sure how? How do you lower you cholesterol whilst eating low carb and high fat has anyone done this and can they advise?
My cholesterol test results are below. As mentioned previously on this forum, I have put them through both Hugh's Calculator https://www.hughcalc.org/chol-si.php and Dave Feldman's checker, https://cholesterolcode.com/report/ but the results are very different, I would be interested if anyone has got any opinion of which calculator is the best one to consider?
Thanks in advance.
Results are:
Serum Cholesterol 10
Serum Triglycerides 0.9
HDL Cholesterol 1.9
LDL 7.69 (I think)
Dave Feldman's calculator
Atherogenic Index of Plasma: -0.325 mg/dL = Lowest Risk Third
Low Risk <––-0.325––•––––––––––•––––––––––> High Risk
Framingham Offspring: 0.7 Odds Ratio = Low Risk
Low Risk <–––•0.7•–––•–––•–––•–––•–––•–––•–––•–––•–––> High Risk
Jeppesen risk tertial: Lowest Risk Third
Low Risk <––––[X]––––•––––––––––•––––––––––> High Risk
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hugh's Calc
Your Total Cholesterol of 10.00 is HIGH RISK
Your LDL of 7.69 is VERY HIGH RISK
Your HDL of 1.9 is OPTIMAL
Your Triglyceride level of 0.89 is NORMAL