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Vidgren

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Diagnosed type 2 may 2017. Male, 41 years. Active. Both excersise and at work. Lost 32kg since diagnose (now weigh 98kg) 191cm tall. Not much fat on my body.

Diet treated (lchf)

Hba1c: 30 november last year (90 when i was diagnosed) 31 now.

fS-LDL-Kolesterol
Resultat: 5.2 mmol/L

--HDL-kolesterol
Resultat: 1.19 mmol/L

Total: 7.07

Ldl cholesterol is elevated, hdl is normal. Should i be worried?
 
Your triglycerides are important. From the figures you have given I would estimate they are about 1.5. That is within the normal band. You should aim for a triglyceride/HDL ratio of under 0.87 as that is the ideal ratio.
 
Vidgren said:
Nope not at all
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In that case the result is a bit meaningless as whatever you had eaten or drunk before the blood drawer could have had a significant impact on your trigs. Thus the trig/HDL ratio which is a bit high in your figures could have been skewed.
 
I ate a normal high fat breakfast before the test. Ate some peanuts the evening before. That affects the triglyceride i presume but not cholesterol?
 
Vidgren said:
I ate a normal high fat breakfast before the test. Ate some peanuts the evening before. That affects the triglyceride i presume but not cholesterol?
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Yes, your breakfast will have affected the trigs as they would have been swimming about in your blood stream doing their job, so more of them would get caught up in the vial. It won't have affected your other lipids, but will have made your total a tad higher and your trigs/HDL ratio. It is always best to fast for 12 hours and drink only water before a triglyceride test.
 
Yeah well she suggested i should take cholestetol meds. I said no.

I agreed to have a new test taken within a few months. Will take the next one fasting.

How can i lower my cholesterol without meds?

I cant excersise more (work fulltime and excersise already a few times a week) and theres not that much i can change on my diet. Going LCLF must be awful.
 
Vidgren said:
Yeah well she suggested i should take cholestetol meds. I said no.

I agreed to have a new test taken within a few months. Will take the next one fasting.

How can i lower my cholesterol without meds?

I cant excersise more (work fulltime and excersise already a few times a week) and theres not that much i can change on my diet. Going LCLF must be awful.
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When you next get the test we can do a proper analysis and you'll probably find that there's nothing wrong with your cholesterol at all anyway. I started a new thread today with a lot of info about up to date thinking on cholesterol here.. maybe have a read..
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/cholesterol-and-statins.156985/#post-1891301
 
Hi Vidgren,
If you keep on low carb healthy fats your fasting Trigs should go down and your HDL will go up and your LDL will most likely be of the more innocuous kind.

Low good fats does not apparently bring down LDL much, it is created in our bodies.
D.



Vidgren said:
Yeah well she suggested i should take cholestetol meds. I said no.

I agreed to have a new test taken within a few months. Will take the next one fasting.

How can i lower my cholesterol without meds?

I cant excersise more (work fulltime and excersise already a few times a week) and theres not that much i can change on my diet. Going LCLF must be awful.
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Bluetit1802 said:
Your triglycerides are important. From the figures you have given I would estimate they are about 1.5. That is within the normal band. You should aim for a triglyceride/HDL ratio of under 0.87 as that is the ideal ratio.
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Could I ask please where the figure in the sentence in bold come from? I ask because I'm having a 'no statins thank you' series of conversations with the gp
 
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