u/raven090

Is this just a Canadian thing or do you have this in the US too? It drives me nuts when I see lab sheets here mark 3.5mmol or under as the boundary for "normal". And yes, this is marked like that even if the same lab sheet will show "hba1c : 6.7", becoming comically contradictory in nature. How is letting a borderline number sit unchecked a good thing or "normal"? I mean, will 3.5 mmol or 135mg/dl of LDL cause no issues over decades? What do cardiologists or lipid researchers think of this?

After months of my doctor deferring it, I decided to just ask for it and go to a cardiologist's office. My last measured LDL-C level was 3.99 mmol or 154 mg/dL. My LP(a) measured on the same test was above 200 nmol. Since then, I have for the first time added MUFA/PUFA serving to my day (hemp hearts and walnuts). I was prescribed 5mg rosuvastatin and I've never been more excited or looked forward to a drug this much. 3 days on it now, will absolutely be retesting as they want me to, in about 6 weeks time, and see what my numbers are. Based on actual clinical data, the MUFA/PUFA addition goes anywhere between 5% to 10% reduction in LDL. And of course the heaviest lifting of all will be done by the rosuvastatin. We'll then see if I should add ezetemibe on top of this or not.

I find that to be the best demon design in these games, I have been looking but not able to find that.

I feel like some doctors here are resistant to prescribing statins here even to people in their 30s. The advice is usually to wait till 40 or so, which I think comes from this Canadian Cardiovascular society guideline. But..do atherogenic particles "wait till you're 40" to start doing damage?

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Here is the link: https://www.ccjm.org/page/aha-2020/noceba-statins

Also, the landmark Lancet meta analysis (yes, the highest quality of evidence, that spans number of people in the six figures): https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01578-8/fulltext

I think some if not all of y'all are falling into this trap, especially if you restlessly scroll through online forums, including this one.

So I had tried to lower my LDL from 192mg/dl a year ago and in March, I had the result of 156mg/dl. On testing yesterday, it is still at only a negligible decrease, sitting at 154mg/dl. But...Lp(a) is 211. Wtf. I think I have hit the floor with what I can do with dietary changes but that LP(a) is terrifying me. I am 36M. I like to think I caught this early but seeing these numbers is not at all reassuring. Not even one bit. BUT I was able to drive down a1c from 6 to 5.5 in this whole year.

EDIT: My triglycerides are at 100 mg/dl. (1.13 mmol/L. HDL is 1.08 mmol/L (41.76 mg/dL)

I'd been fearful of these. Because for many many months now, I thought yeah my costo is gone. I had begun working out finally but kept the chest workouts at bay. Until 3 weeks ago. Started with the dumbbell incline press. Yes, with the lowering of the arms past the chest line, stretching the hell out of the pecs. More than 33 lb of weight each hand, feels great and no pain on multiple sessions per week. Also incorporated CHEST supported dumbbell rows and Spider curls, which are ALSO chest supported. Week 1, I felt a bit of pain, but not even worth calling it actual pain (maybe like 2 out of 10?) and then even that just fully vanished on subsequent sessions. So I guess I can safely say after 2+ years of suffering from this crap, I am fully fine now. I used backpod for many months and that took much of the pain away, and after that, did those door stretches as well as book openers for many months after.

PS: This is my experience and not advice for you to start chest based workouts. Do not attempt to do it without taking stock of your own situation.

I switched to the incline bicep curls just recently (two weeks ago), before this I was doing the regular bicep curls, no incline. I had to lower the weight which is fine, but my left arm starts feeling this tingly sensation shooting up from palms all the way to the upper arm. I then have to stop at 6 reps or so. Anyone experienced something like this? This does not happen on the right arm at all. Maybe I just need to lower the weights only for the left arm? Just feels weird and makes me apprehensive to continue past it.