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Patch

Patch

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Bristol
Type of diabetes
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Insulin
Just had my results back from my 6 monthly tests.

HbA1c: 7.7% 8)
Total Chol: 4.0(!) 8)
Trigs: 42 :shock:

42?!? Jebus - surely I should be dead??? My ONLY hope, is that they have started measuring trigs in mg/dl, and stopped measuring it in mmol/L.

Normal range: low risk (<150mg/dL)(<1.69mmol/L)
Borderline high (150-199mg/dL)(1.70-2.25mml/L)
High (200-499mg/dL)(2.26-5.65)
Very high: high risk (>500mg/dL)(>5.65mmol/L)

I'm not banking on it, though. :cry:

Another bad thing is - you cannot get an accurate lipid profile when your trigs are high, so I don't know my LDL/HDL split. It may be that my LDL is 3.9, and my HDL is 0.1. :shock: Unlikely, I know - but possible.
 
Are you sure that there isn't a decimal place missing Patch ?... even so it would still be high. I think you should ask them about it.
Your total cholesterol isn't bad. :D
Do you take anything for it? My OH has a family history of early heart disease . When his older brother was diagnosed with problems, OH and his sister got themselves tested, both had normal total cholesterol but high trigs in spite of being normal weight and having no other metabolic syndrome markers.(Familial hypertriglyceridemia)
He has taken fenofibrate for the last 5 or 6 years and it seems to have worked well in keeping them down.
 
Those trig numbers dont seem to make sense P atch I would ring and ask for an explaination . or a stretcher :!:
carol
 
I'm taking fenofibrate (267mg/day) and Ezetimibe (10mg/day).

I'm waiting for a call back from the Doc re: my Trigs...
 
I hope for your sake they've missed off 2 decimal places - 0.42 is achievable and would be great!

Sometimes trigs go up when low-carbing first mobilises fat-burning - but I would have thought you'd been low-carbing for too long, and 42 is extraordinary.

Let us know what happens.

Viv 8)
 
This is the thing - I do dip in n' out of ketosis. I wonder if that's the reason for my hi trigs?
 
I would be more inclined to worry about the HbA1c of 7.7%......mind you any reduction has to be good though........
 
If you can't get any sense out of your HCP, Patch, ask for your lipid profile to be redone. You need to know where you are, and if your results are way out, why.

Viv 8)
 
I was found to have high triglycerides prior to my diagnosis and was most put out that every HCP I met attributed them to an assumed diet of sweet greasy food like doughnuts when I virtually never ate stuff like that. In between that blood test and the next my triglycerides fell from 13.7 to 4.7. I had really cut back on dietary fat, particularly saturated fat, and was having one of the Benecol drinks every day. The plan to put me onto a fibrate was abandoned in the light of the reduction, I'm now on Simvastatin, within a month my Triglyceride was down to 1.0 (still having Benecol, but now I'm diabetic it's Benecol Light :lol: ) Quite interested to see whether the Trigs are up at the next set of bloods since I allowed myself more leeway with dairy fats.
I would be asking for further investigations, I ended up at a Cardiac Clinic looking into whether there was familial hyperlipidaemia which was how I ended up with my diabetes diagnosis. At the very least a re-test incase it's a dodgy sample.
 
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