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<blockquote data-quote="DCUKMod" data-source="post: 2203278" data-attributes="member: 345386"><p>KK123, my total cholesterol has always been an inconveniently high number, but my ratios good. I too got bored of the repeated discussion around lipids, focusing on this inconvenient number.</p><p></p><p>I decided to tackle it by sharing my research and some learnings with my GP. It was Professor Ken Sikoris and a few others, on YouTube, plus a couple of papers, then "agreed" I wouldn't take statins at that point.</p><p></p><p>Along the way I did get frustrated and asked a thread which point I might expect to receive any credits for my A1cs being serially being tested in the very low 30s, adding if it hadn't been for that single 73, which I could never challenge as being non-diabetic, I'd never be under the same scrutiny. She agree, and promptly suggested if I agreed to annual screening she would take me off the diabetes register. She did offer to refer me to a lipidologist, just in case of familial hypercholesterolaemia. I would have been happy with that, but was about to go away, overseas for a few months, so deferred that, but at the next review, I had notched down a bit again and the GP having done a bit more reading and watching, declared my inconveniently high total and so on a great set of numbers.</p><p></p><p>Obviously, as a T1 that bit about the diabetes register couldn't apply to you!</p><p></p><p>I don't think I was the only reason she did her own reading and so on was my prompting She was an excellent GP and always tried to go the extra mile, so she did her own work. Sadly, she moved area, to well away from any credible registration. I was gutted. I'm imagining my next review, with any of the other GPS could be "interesting".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DCUKMod, post: 2203278, member: 345386"] KK123, my total cholesterol has always been an inconveniently high number, but my ratios good. I too got bored of the repeated discussion around lipids, focusing on this inconvenient number. I decided to tackle it by sharing my research and some learnings with my GP. It was Professor Ken Sikoris and a few others, on YouTube, plus a couple of papers, then "agreed" I wouldn't take statins at that point. Along the way I did get frustrated and asked a thread which point I might expect to receive any credits for my A1cs being serially being tested in the very low 30s, adding if it hadn't been for that single 73, which I could never challenge as being non-diabetic, I'd never be under the same scrutiny. She agree, and promptly suggested if I agreed to annual screening she would take me off the diabetes register. She did offer to refer me to a lipidologist, just in case of familial hypercholesterolaemia. I would have been happy with that, but was about to go away, overseas for a few months, so deferred that, but at the next review, I had notched down a bit again and the GP having done a bit more reading and watching, declared my inconveniently high total and so on a great set of numbers. Obviously, as a T1 that bit about the diabetes register couldn't apply to you! I don't think I was the only reason she did her own reading and so on was my prompting She was an excellent GP and always tried to go the extra mile, so she did her own work. Sadly, she moved area, to well away from any credible registration. I was gutted. I'm imagining my next review, with any of the other GPS could be "interesting". [/QUOTE]
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