What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

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Purely anecdotal.

I make sure to get a full blood workup done annually, I was reviewing the results of some of my labs since 2016.  Since that time, I have lost 140 pounds and stopped eating meat except for fish and shellfish, stopped drinking alcohol,  and I put a real effort into eating well.

You wouldn't know it from the data - my total cholesterol is flat at about 210 - thereby debunking any connection between dietary and serum cholesterol, at least for me.

I have a cardiology appt. on the 25th.  Doc and I are in for another fight regarding statin usage.  My cholesterol is a tiny bit high, so low my regular doc is not concerned.  But this whole awful sickness I have suffered for over a year has a link to the use of statins.  Since I was losing a lot of weight and it was determined that I was not taking in calories or nutrients, I have to believe that I was also not just sucking the cholesterol out of what I was managing to eat and keep down for a few minutes.

First of the year doc and I got into it again about statins...he swears there is nothing else that you can take.  I took THREE in a week and spiraled into a GI hell that had me down to about 97 pounds.  He can stuff those damn statins.  Maybe I will die without them, but he's the one been griping about how much weight I was losing starting about two years into first taking the damn things.  

It's true that you have to advocate for yourself.  

And just FYI, as of today...I am up to 108 pounds.  It may not sound like a lot but I look and feel a lot better.  While everyone else is trying to control/lose weight...I need to put rolls of quarters into my pockets to keep from blowing away.

Oops, appt is the 26th.