I was in a funk most of yesterday: Monday night I got some discouraging news about my new cholesterol results. Rather than improving after months of regular exercise and better eating my cholesterol has gotten slightly worse. Now I am facing medication. Is it the end of the world? Not by a long shot, but I assumed things would trend better and I’m puzzled when they did not.
I feel I’m in the best shape of my life. I don’t smoke and have perhaps one drink a day. I’ve slimmed down, my blood pressure is fine, my resting heart rate is in the low 60s. I exercise daily and have plenty of energy. I’m sleeping well, too. I don’t know what else I can do, and that’s the frustrating part.
I hope to get the full paperwork from my test results today so I can figure out what it all means.
dude, I’m sorry to hear this but let me make a couple points.
You are in good health and depending on how high your cholesterol is and what the LDL to HDL levels are it may not be a big deal. Especially considering you’re still pretty young.
Lately, there’s been a lot of questioning of the validity of cholesterol readings. Although I wouldn’t ignore them, you may want to do some more poking around.
Either way, I know you’ll be fine!