high cholestrol

[BRIGHT SPARK]

my choletstrol is 6.1 the dr says this is high. i have managed to reduce it from 7.4 within 3 months and i would like to continue to reduce it through diet. any medical folks out there that could give me some advice, i'm due to go back to dr next week. what is classed as normal cholestrol, mine used to be 4.6.

[wallacia]

my doctor reckons its 5.2,i am sitting at 6.3 down from 7.4.

[sqad617]

Meaninless figures.

You need to know level of LDL ......bad cholesterol
HDL....good cholesterol.

Your high total cholesterol may be due to all good cholesterol and you don't want to lower that....do you?

Ask your DR. for a breakdown of the above.

[chinadog]

http://www.saga.co.uk/health/healthyliving/bod ymatters/Cholesterol.asp

[chinadog]

Oops we posted together squad -)

[Puzzled001]

Simvastatin is very effective but beware its side effects. One is Paraesthesiae, ( numbness/tingling in fingers and sometimes toes) I suffer from carple tunnel syndrome and the 'sim' made it ten times worse. Don't worry though there are alternatives available.