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Zoe Harcombe's take on FH : http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2016/11/familial-hypercholesterolemia-fh/ Geoff

Dr Malcolm Kendrick's take on FH : https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/tag/familial-hypercholesterolaemia/ Geoff

Help keep you alive, or at least avoid high blood sugar damage. The bodies produces various substances, without which you'd be dead, such as blood, cholesterol, insulin. All Dawn Phenomenon sufferers know that the body has a useful facility to put glucose into the blood stream when necessary, at...

I fully expect your triglycerides to have reduced since December.They were too high, and cutting back on carbs is the best way to reduce them. Were either of the two tests fasting ? This gives the most accurate trigs result. Fingers crossed for you, Geoff

I will say up front that I'm LADA, and other LADAs' posts suggest to me that we seem to be able to control our levels better, and experience fewer and less disabling hypos. I'm weeks away from two years on basal/bolus, and only very rarely had a hypo. 3.6 was my lowest, and merely needed jelly...

"It is now believed that the triglycerides/HDL ratio is one of the most potent predictors of heart disease." https://www.functionalmedicineuniversity.com/public/796.cfm Since this is a US site the 'ideal' ratio of 2 translates to a UK figure of 0.87. Your trigs/HDL ratio is 0.81 so well done...

My TSH is lower than that, and yes my GP is concerned, but I remain reassured that the low level is not indicative of a problem. Thyroidism isn't one problem, or even two (hypo/hyper) It may be too little T4 is produced. The TSH test will pick this up. It may be enough T4 is produced, but the...

Those levels look good to me. They also look within range, so where's the problem ? Geoff

Do you know what was tested ? I suspect TSH, which is the default go-to test for GPs, and ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL LINE, tells your GP if you have a thyroid problem or not. Particularly with subclinical hypothyroidism the test is next to useless. Were your FT3 and FT4 measured ? These are...

Your trigs/HDL ratio has gone from 1.45 to 0.82, which has turned your LDL particles into friendly ones. Well done ! This chart shows that 1.3 and below is where larger particles outnumber small ones : https://scienceofhumanpotential.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/sdldl-tg-hdl.png?w=640 Geoff...

Thank you for sharing that Lulu. How's life for you now ? Geoff

Have you opened a book on it yet ? Can I put a fiver on it being your GP ? I know you won't let us down ;) Geoff (neither condemning nor advocating gambling edited for wrong word choice

The figures of 3.9 and 5.6 are not the total cholesterol (TC) figures your GP will have, since TC is not simply HDL and LDL added together, as @Bluetit1802 has pointed out. So you can't use these figures to calculate your trigs Your triglycerides level, along with its ratio to HDL are considered...

Please reassure me you had no homicidal impulses,or I'm contacting my local constabulary. It sounds more like you had felicidal impulses, which I can't condone, but if you took only one of the cat's nine lives, that seems less reportable. Geoff

1. Your reply assumes your 'numbers' were a problem, and that reducing them is a 'good thing'. GPs etc may believe this but it's outdated dogma. Modern thinking cardiologists, engineers etc are rejecting it. 2. GPs etc deny the level of side-effects from statins. Everyone must make their own...

It is possible to 'cure' yourself of gout for pennies. I used to suffer increasingly painful bouts of gout, where I had to shout at the dog not to come near me, for fear of him touching my inflamed toe. That was, until I found this website https://sites.google.com/site/icuredmygout/ I've had no...

On again today. After 6.30

It sounds like you need a c-peptide test, to determine whether you're not producing enough insulin (indicating T1 or LADA), or are simply insulin-resistant (indicating T2 in the presence of adequate insulin). T2s can usually avoid medication/insulin by going lowcarb. Your HbA1c of 122 equates to...

I'm envious, Ian. You're sure it's not going to be too quiet for you ? Or perhaps you're escaping busy London with its busy skies.. A lovely cathedral nearby. The Black Mountains nearby. The Brecon Beacons not too far away, with my favourite dipper river (which also has a spectacular waterfall)...

@shelley262 I posted a link to a study showing that high cholesterol in itself was not a risk factor for heart attack risk, unless that cholesterol was accompanied by high triglycerides. https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/its-the-triglycerides-not-the-cholesterol.135121/ Geoff