Hi,
I got some lab work back today and it indicates that my total cholesterol is high (213) but my HDL, LDL and triglycerides are normal (69, 116, 137). Is this something I should be concerned about? I’m 26 years old, active (I teach dance part time), I don’t have the best diet though. I guess my question is how can my total cholesterol be high if my individual levels are normal?
What do you think is a great concern? The case of global warming (if you consider this a hoax, please don’t even answer) or the difficulty of providing health care for everyone in the United States?
What do you feel is the greatest problem with our current health care system? Are insurance companies to blame?
i have been told on numerious occasions (excuse my spelling) that this is what my 3 yr old daughter has,she has been on laxatives for about 6 months..could someone please tell me if there is a web site that is aimed at childrens health issues that could maybe tell me more about what this means. ps i know what constipation is but want to know if there is a difference between that and a blocked colon and the side effects of laxatives etc etc
my daughters gp just said its because she isnt going to the toilet enough,he wants her to go every day,but ive tried and she wont…it hurts her,ive tried diet change and all that
the laxatives have come from my gp,he says they unblock it but when i stop giving them her she just blocks up again
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I have a pretty low total cholesterol level of 125. However, my HDL (the good cholesterol) seems low at only 49, but accoriding to the printout is still in the normal range and my LDL (the bad stuff) is at 54 which is also in the "normal" range. My triglycerides are at 65 if that matters.
I am worried that my HDL might be low in an unhealthy way. Do you think so or is it just low because my total cholesterol is so low as well?
If it is low how can you raise your HDL without really lowering your cholesterol any more because I have heard low total cholesterols can be dangerous as well.
By the way he came back heartworm negative. Yay.
Okay so in dealing with a dog that has had sudden aggression issues toward other animals and starting to act out around people, the vet wants his thyroid tested for Hypothyroidism.
(just so you know he has never been a healthy dog)
But doesn’t hypothyroidism cause a dog to have excessive weight gain, and we have trouble keeping weight on him?
Anyways he wants to check for that. And he also wants to do a scan to rule out Hydrocephalus. (this is getting expensive, I don’t want to sound like a bad owner but money is tight)
What should we do? It could just be behavioral or it could be medical but his medical bills over the years have wiped us out. The vet is willing to do a payment plan, but how many more tests and treatments before enough is enough for the dog and us?
We’ve been living at the vets office the whole 2 years of his life, it seems we get one condition managed and he develops another.
Now don’t get me wrong I am not giving up until he is done fighting but I’m tired and how do we know when medically we are doing more harm than good?
Again I am in no way giving up on him. But how do we know that all these tests and treatments and hospital time isn’t making the situation worse?
Will he ever be healthy? Or is this his constant reality
It just seems he keeps getting more and more health issues and we keep going more and more broke.
ADD: We have been to 7 or 8 vets in 2 years
Someone told me I could be walking around with pounds of crap in my body from years of development and that I should do a colon cleanse. I’m curious if this is true and if it’s all really stored in my colon. What should I use to get all this crap out of my body, it’s freaking me out and I’m getting worried.
Recently, I was diagnsed with high cholesterol(274) , but my triglicerides were borderline. NOw, I have brought my cholesterol down to 253, which I do realize is still high, but I have made my triglicerides high now (14 pts higher than it should be). Any suggestions?