Thread: Who suffers from high Cholesterol

oats/porridge

a guy at work got his down just by eating only fruit for a few weeks but as my doctor said some people thier bodys just produce to much and just have to take the pills

If you have not tried already you can try Six to eight fish oil tablets per day which can help some people quite a lot, others it doesn't seam to make much difference.

Still worth a try with no down side other than the cost of the tablets that I know of.

You could always eat more prawns ...

Good luck with it Ean.

Cheers,
Terry

Not to sound like a smart****, but a good exercise routine?? Diet can only do so much if your lifestyle is continually countering it.

I don't suffer - but I my cholesterol is high

Diet and excersize are the main things, but I am also on Lipidil, which is a fenofibrate rather than a statin. I've had a lot of problems with side effects from statins but the current drug seems to be ok.

If only I could give up the grog and get back on the bike I probably wouldn't need the drugs - like that's ever going to happen!

Cheers,
Jon

Like someone on here said, oats/porridge are good, as is Pro-Active or similar margarines and exercise. A reduction in red meat intake, lots of fish and so it goes. But alas, for some people it seems whatever they do they are burdened with high cholesterol. A friends mother had excessively high cholesterol and it seemed a glass of water would put her level up.

Cheers, Mick.

Ean, my diet is excellent however my liver produce the bad cholesterol.
First the doctor put me in Lipitor which I have to stop after a year because affected my memory.
He put me in Crestor a Rosuvastatin Calcium medicine. It controlled the levels of cholesterol but start given me muscular pain. Under the suspicious that the medicine start attacking the muscular tissues which can affect very seriously the kidneys (a side effect of this group of medicines) they put me in Lipidil 145 which is a Fenofibrate.
Together with Lipidil the Doctor also recommended 1 TB of fish oil (Omega 3) and 1TB of Chia which also is strong in omega 6 & 3.
The Lipidil stoped the "bad" cholesterol to come over 7 and the Omega 3 and 6 raised the level of the "good' cholesterol to cancel the bad one.
At the present time I stopped taken the Lipidil (for 4 months) to see if the omega intake help to keep the bad levels at bay.
If not, I will try to add Flax oil on my diet to add more omega 3,6 and 9 before come back to the tablet again.

Cheers

Like Chucaro, I developed muscular pain from Crestor so had to look elsewhere... losing 7-8 kg over 8 months helped as did a dessert spoon of psyllium husk each day plus 4 fish oil caps.

Another important step was to reduce the triglycerides (cut down on sugars etc). High triglycerides are associated with increased low density lipids (bad cholesterol) levels... have had to significantly reduce my wine/beer consumption also... and I feel a lot better. Whereas I'd have a beer and a couple of glasses of wine a day with dinner, these days I rarely drink during the week ...

Got a smilie stamp from my GP last time I saw her
Hope this helps

cheers

EDIT: the ingredient in "Pro-Active" margarine mentioned above is a clinically proven reducer of LDL. It was discovered by the boffins at the CSIRO and they licensed its use to the food manufacturers... I use that as well. Buy it on special ...