Cholesterol
Feb. 16th, 2010 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayfurrApropos of nothing: my cholesterol, heart rate, and blood pressure KICK ASS.
I've been on Niaspan for six months now and it was time to go in and have my liver checked (*poke* *poke* "yep, still there") and cholesterol re-taken and my HDL has responded nicely.
Six months ago I had the whole "we can't believe you're the same guy we've been seeing for years" experience when the doctor saw I'd lost close to 50 pounds and that my cholesterol had dropped like a rock after giving up eating meat... but my HDL was still not anything to brag about. Heredity, basically.
So today:
Blood pressure: 112 over 73 (used to routinely be in the 138 over 95 range)
Heart rate (resting): 55 (always been pretty low)
Total cholesterol (TC): 120 mg/dL
HDL: 36 mg/dL (up from 23 pre-Niaspan, up from 12 pre-weight-loss and pre-vegetarianism)
Triglycerides: 145 mg/dL (used to be off the charts)
LDL: 95 mg/dL (used to be MUCH MUCH higher)
TC/HDL: 4.4
I've got my old numbers pinned to a bulletin board at home. I should look 'em up later and plot out a graph or something.
Also, I talked to my practitioner about getting a referral for a sleep study to see what's up with the whole drowsing-off-on-the-highway thing I've posted about. She said it absolutely made sense and that one of their staff call and set one up.
I talk all the time about the Susan G. Komen people saving lives every day through their breast cancer research, treatment, and prevention efforts -- but honest to God, I feel like they've saved my life by giving me something larger than myself to live for and by getting me off my butt and onto a program of taking care of my health and fitness. Every penny I've donated (and I've donated a lot) to Susan G. Komen For The Cure is money well spent even if you regard it as essentially paying for a rather roundabout fitness and weight loss plan. And as you know perfectly well, it's much, MUCH more than that. (Give today! Save a life!)
I can't wait for the warm weather to come. If the weather permits (and last year it sure as heck didn't -- it rained all spring and summer long) I'm gonna spend a LOT of time on my bicycle. That's this year's big fitness goal.
I've been on Niaspan for six months now and it was time to go in and have my liver checked (*poke* *poke* "yep, still there") and cholesterol re-taken and my HDL has responded nicely.
Six months ago I had the whole "we can't believe you're the same guy we've been seeing for years" experience when the doctor saw I'd lost close to 50 pounds and that my cholesterol had dropped like a rock after giving up eating meat... but my HDL was still not anything to brag about. Heredity, basically.
So today:
Blood pressure: 112 over 73 (used to routinely be in the 138 over 95 range)
Heart rate (resting): 55 (always been pretty low)
Total cholesterol (TC): 120 mg/dL
HDL: 36 mg/dL (up from 23 pre-Niaspan, up from 12 pre-weight-loss and pre-vegetarianism)
Triglycerides: 145 mg/dL (used to be off the charts)
LDL: 95 mg/dL (used to be MUCH MUCH higher)
TC/HDL: 4.4
I've got my old numbers pinned to a bulletin board at home. I should look 'em up later and plot out a graph or something.
Also, I talked to my practitioner about getting a referral for a sleep study to see what's up with the whole drowsing-off-on-the-highway thing I've posted about. She said it absolutely made sense and that one of their staff call and set one up.
I talk all the time about the Susan G. Komen people saving lives every day through their breast cancer research, treatment, and prevention efforts -- but honest to God, I feel like they've saved my life by giving me something larger than myself to live for and by getting me off my butt and onto a program of taking care of my health and fitness. Every penny I've donated (and I've donated a lot) to Susan G. Komen For The Cure is money well spent even if you regard it as essentially paying for a rather roundabout fitness and weight loss plan. And as you know perfectly well, it's much, MUCH more than that. (Give today! Save a life!)
I can't wait for the warm weather to come. If the weather permits (and last year it sure as heck didn't -- it rained all spring and summer long) I'm gonna spend a LOT of time on my bicycle. That's this year's big fitness goal.
