Cholesterol levels..

Just had another set of blood tests ,and my cholesterol level have risen to 6.1...
Which is higher than norm but not high enough for meds ...

Do you know yours ?
Do you take anything if you have high levels..?

I have mine checked every year at work for free, it hovers between 4.3 - 4.5

So not bad.

Plant sterols are what you need!

Mine is under 4 pity I didnt have the BP to match

My thyroid is all over the place right now which does not help..
Plant sterols are on my list...

when i had my angina attacks mine was 6.6 its now down to 4- something. due for more blood tests next week. but ive been good this year been eating alot better so hope i get a good result

Mine used to be really high, so I'm on statins (one tab a day) and it's now steadily in the 3's.

Mine used to be 8 Then they sorted out my heart problems and I started living a healthier life, and with statins I'm down to 3, but I can't take them anymore, so it's 5.5 which the doc said is good considering. Sometimes it's not all about what you eat, some people produce too much, it's a gene thing, I have it in my family apparently.

Mine a high 6.2 and Im always on the go, and eat fairly healthy too...veg fruit etc 5 a day type


Pat eats alot less healthier than me and is major over weight and his is 4.

however just to equal things out my blood pressure has always been normal, and his is high so he has meds

A friend of mine had high cholesterol. He switched from butter to benecol spread and ate a bit healthier and he managed to get it down but not sure if he was on medication as well but he always says it was the benecol.

I have familial Hypercholesterolemia - in other words I have very high cholesterol levels in my blood.

Both my sisters take Statins for familial Hypercholesterolemia - I do not. I did, but within a very short time I had such bad side effects that I stopped taking them. I was then prescribed different statins which had to be approved by the Health Fund as they cost a fortune.

I had to stop taking them within less than a week, and nobody can ever accuse me of not eating healthily.

If high cholesterol is genetic it does not make any difference whether you are prescribed statins or not, and statins can, and do, cause far more damage to the body than familial/genetic high blood cholesterol do.

There are far too many medications prescribed these days - causing far too many side effects.