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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1597485" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I got very high trig levels when I lost a heap of weight shortly after diagnosis and I in-acted those dreaded 'lifestyle changes' - that is where all the fat stores go - into your bloodstream, and hence the high trig levels. Mine were so high they couldn't measure my LDL. But yes, it stabilises (to a new healthy level!) once the body has dealt with the changing fat stores, rather quickly. By the time of the next blood lipid test a month later at any rate.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I personally have chosen to be statin free, even with quite high cholesterol levels. (I have very good HDL and trig levels though, so my risk, which can be rather easily calculated online, for MIs and CVDs (what we are most likely to die to early of) isn't too bad - 4% chance of having a heart attack (MI) in the next five years, and 11% chance of having a CVD event in the next five years. Not sure how these risk factor things work out psychologically! But I found it helpful when researching the topic to have it laid out so. (Rather than just reading about the greatly elevated risks for such with T2D.) To statin or not to statin is a very personal decision, for sure.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I did this CVD calculating thing when an aunt of mine got freaked out at the chances she had of getting a stroke, when she had a suspected mini stroke when she was staying with me, and spoke with awe to me about how much diabetes came up as a huge risk factor when she researched it online (you know - 'oh dear - you are going to die soon, did you know that? You ought to be taking pills' sort of thing.) I did not find her freaking out about getting a stroke very helpful without really looking at the stats in my own case. Seeing 11% felt better than a 50-100% would have <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. It's all relative? Helped keep it in perspective for me.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1597485, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]I got very high trig levels when I lost a heap of weight shortly after diagnosis and I in-acted those dreaded 'lifestyle changes' - that is where all the fat stores go - into your bloodstream, and hence the high trig levels. Mine were so high they couldn't measure my LDL. But yes, it stabilises (to a new healthy level!) once the body has dealt with the changing fat stores, rather quickly. By the time of the next blood lipid test a month later at any rate. I personally have chosen to be statin free, even with quite high cholesterol levels. (I have very good HDL and trig levels though, so my risk, which can be rather easily calculated online, for MIs and CVDs (what we are most likely to die to early of) isn't too bad - 4% chance of having a heart attack (MI) in the next five years, and 11% chance of having a CVD event in the next five years. Not sure how these risk factor things work out psychologically! But I found it helpful when researching the topic to have it laid out so. (Rather than just reading about the greatly elevated risks for such with T2D.) To statin or not to statin is a very personal decision, for sure. I did this CVD calculating thing when an aunt of mine got freaked out at the chances she had of getting a stroke, when she had a suspected mini stroke when she was staying with me, and spoke with awe to me about how much diabetes came up as a huge risk factor when she researched it online (you know - 'oh dear - you are going to die soon, did you know that? You ought to be taking pills' sort of thing.) I did not find her freaking out about getting a stroke very helpful without really looking at the stats in my own case. Seeing 11% felt better than a 50-100% would have :). It's all relative? Helped keep it in perspective for me.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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