- Messages
- 12
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Hi All
Long time lurker, first time poster here! First of all, this forum and the people on it have been such a great help to me over the last year since my T2 diagnosis, thank you all so much.
I was diagnosed with T2 last year in hospital after suffering a heart attack. BG at the time was 29 and HBA1c was 109. Hospital consultant sent me home with Metformin, Atorvastatin, Ramipril, Bisoprolol and Aspirin.
Since then I have gone low carb (around 50g a day) and last HBA1c was 43, which I had done privately during lockdown. I feel I have my head round my diabetes and my low carb diet. I wanted to ask you lovely people your opinion about the Atorvastatin. I decided to come off it in February as I was feeling very foggy. I intended to speak to my GP, but then lockdown so that didn't happen. I have now been called in for my diabetes review, and while I am fairly confident HBA1c will be in pre diabetic levels, I know my cholesterol is higher than the GP would want. Private tests done in June are:
TOTAL CHOLESTEROL 5.23 mmol/L (0 – 5)
LDL CHOLESTEROL 2.67 mmol/L (< 3)
NON HDL CHOLESTEROL 3.16 mmol/L (< 4)
HDL CHOLESTEROL 2.07 mmol/L (> 1.3)
TOTAL CHOLESTEROL : HDL 2.53 ratio (< 4)
TRIGLYCERIDES 1.08 mmol/L (<1.7)
I feel that my heart attack was caused by my undiagnosed rampant diabetes, and now that is under control (and I have lost 4 stone) I am in a much healthier state. Am I just kidding myself that I don't need the statins? I know that there are arguments for and against, but for someone in my position who has had a previous heart attack is it necessarily keep my cholesterol lowered? I will discus this with my GP once the blood results come back, so I am really just looking for an opinion from you knowledgeable folks.
Long time lurker, first time poster here! First of all, this forum and the people on it have been such a great help to me over the last year since my T2 diagnosis, thank you all so much.
I was diagnosed with T2 last year in hospital after suffering a heart attack. BG at the time was 29 and HBA1c was 109. Hospital consultant sent me home with Metformin, Atorvastatin, Ramipril, Bisoprolol and Aspirin.
Since then I have gone low carb (around 50g a day) and last HBA1c was 43, which I had done privately during lockdown. I feel I have my head round my diabetes and my low carb diet. I wanted to ask you lovely people your opinion about the Atorvastatin. I decided to come off it in February as I was feeling very foggy. I intended to speak to my GP, but then lockdown so that didn't happen. I have now been called in for my diabetes review, and while I am fairly confident HBA1c will be in pre diabetic levels, I know my cholesterol is higher than the GP would want. Private tests done in June are:
TOTAL CHOLESTEROL 5.23 mmol/L (0 – 5)
LDL CHOLESTEROL 2.67 mmol/L (< 3)
NON HDL CHOLESTEROL 3.16 mmol/L (< 4)
HDL CHOLESTEROL 2.07 mmol/L (> 1.3)
TOTAL CHOLESTEROL : HDL 2.53 ratio (< 4)
TRIGLYCERIDES 1.08 mmol/L (<1.7)
I feel that my heart attack was caused by my undiagnosed rampant diabetes, and now that is under control (and I have lost 4 stone) I am in a much healthier state. Am I just kidding myself that I don't need the statins? I know that there are arguments for and against, but for someone in my position who has had a previous heart attack is it necessarily keep my cholesterol lowered? I will discus this with my GP once the blood results come back, so I am really just looking for an opinion from you knowledgeable folks.