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High cholesterol: What have you done to lower your cholesterol?

Posted by hearthealth @hearthealth00, Sep 29, 2024

When you were first diagnosed with high cholesterol, your doctor may have talked with you about exercise. Besides improving your diet, exercising is one of the most effective lifestyle changes you can make to help bring your numbers down naturally….
Which have you done to lower your cholesterol?

Take a walk during your lunch hour

Choose the stairs

Stand up to take phone calls

Went for nice run or jog

Worked out at the gym

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swaimm1 | @swaimm1 | 6 days ago

Repatha is a remarkable drug. Will reduce ldl by 63% quickly. Little to no side effects. You should evaluate this drug with your Dr. taken every 2 weeks as an injection. Good luck. Oh my lake is now 17.

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loriesco | @loriesco | 6 days ago
In reply to @mbaisley "Hello: I am a 74 year old very active woman with familial high cholesterol. I’ve been..." + (show)
@mbaisley

Hello: I am a 74 year old very active woman with familial high cholesterol.
I’ve been on various statins for years which have helped lower my LDL but eventually they cause muscle pain and I try a different brand. I exercise 7 days a week, follow a Mediterranean diet, and eat no junk or processed food. Even though my recent calcium scan was zero, my cardiologist wants me to start taking Crestor but after reading the side effects I don’t think I’m going to.

Has anyone taken Crestor and if so, did you have side effects from the drug?

My feeling is since my calcium score was zero and cardiac nuclear stress test did not show evidence of heart disease, why continue taking a statin since I’m 74 years old.

Thank you

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The numbers only point a direction. I have some numbers that are fantastic, but I inherited the familial coronary artery disease. Fortunately, I’ve paid attention to my diet since I was a kid and I eat a Mediterranean diet and I exercise. Many in my family died from coronary artery disease. I cannot take the statins and I think the statins are kind of worthless IMHO. The best thing is to get a picture of your arteries. That will tell you the condition you are in and then you can go from there. The cholesterol tests aren’t worth too much if you are normal or low only if you are high. Today there are lipid tests, which tell more. And they need to be employed. My numbers started going in the wrong direction for the LP little a test as well as my triglyceride level was heading up. So now I am changing my diet to remove the refined carbohydrates that entered as a result of IBS and gastrointestinal problems And a changed diet. I also believe that those of us with CAD have to demand cardiovascular doctors and have all the tests to physically see what condition our arteries are in since the numbers are all contradictory.

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njx58 | @njx58 | 5 days ago

Exercise will help a little, but not enough. Diet is more important, and if it's genetic, that won't help and you'll need medication.

For example, if your LDL is, say, 130, taking up jogging isn't going to lower it to 100.

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