@islandgirl33, I am sorry you are learning about all of this in a very difficult way. I find myself getting stressed about things I don’t understand, then the more I learn the better I feel about it. I hope your pharmacist has helped you prepare for your doctors appointment next week.

I want to encourage you to focus on what you can control, what you can do to be healthy. The other part is treatment, and everyone is so different as to what works best. Focusing on a good relationship with your doctor will pay you dividends. It will help to depend on your doctor and their expertise to walk you through what they know. This way you can focus on applying what you learn. Don’t expect to understand it all at one time, and that’s ok.

While diet doesn’t necessarily get super high LDL or LP(a) numbers where they need to be, it does help your body to function at it’s best. This in turn has to help the body process any drugs better. Exercise helps in a couple ways: it strengthens the heart and gets blood moving around our body. One cardiologist told me another huge benefit is that it helps patients be able to know their body well, to troubleshoot when problems do come up.

Tell me more about your health anxiety. Have you been experiencing other health related challenges? Why type of things do you try to reduce your stress?