Your Cholesterol?

On a another point anybody ever had a glucose tolerance test? I had one some years ago and was lucky not to boff up everywhere. I sometimes wonder whether some of these medics go and have a snigger after they've stitched you up?

I've had 2, managed them ok, but I know what you mean.


Wait till you reach 60 and you get the Bowel testing kit through the door.

What a fucking perormance that is.

scottjames30 wrote:What causes bad cholesterol ?

Diet is not the main cause of cholesterol especially when you get older your liver produces it and as you get older it produces more, obviously good diet helps.

They change their minds about the figures some years ago mine was 5.7 and the nurse said thats good eat what you want, 5 years later i get an mot and its 3.9 and they said try to get it down to 3 the govt have set lower targets.

Banks of the Croal wrote:

Wait till you reach 60 and you get the Bowel testing kit through the door.

What a fucking perormance that is.

Yes that's a real laugh. Two samples of three separate bowel movements.

scottjames30 wrote:I've heard people take aspirin to make the blood flow better, and to prevent heart attacks.

I might get some just incase.

I take a 75mg aspirin a day scott the hospital told me to after i had to be De-fibrillated to slow my heart rate down after i went on a drinking binge about 5 years ago my heart rate was going 190 non stop and i got raced in to hospital straight from the docs ,i'd had it all night and just went to the docs in the morning he put the scope on me and called for an ambulance on the spot, i fuckin shit myself.

The experts told us that fish oil was really good for us and people were taking cod liver oil and halibut oil capsules. Yesterday, they declared that too much Omega 3 is bad for you and can cause prostate cancer in men.

If we listened to everything we were told we would end up living on water and the odd lettuce leaf.

scottjames30 wrote:I've heard people take aspirin to make the blood flow better, and to prevent heart attacks.

I might get some just incase.

I take Aspirin, not because I was advised to but because of the reports I read, been on them about 5 years, I also take statins because I need to.

Reebok Trotter wrote:The experts told us that fish oil was really good for us and people were taking cod liver oil and halibut oil capsules. Yesterday, they declared that too much Omega 3 is bad for you and can cause prostate cancer in men.

If we listened to everything we were told we would end up living on water and the odd lettuce leaf.

 Sorry to disappoint you RT - but water and odd lettuce can give you bowel problems- so ,once again ,you're snookered!!

Triumph wrote:

scottjames30 wrote:I've heard people take aspirin to make the blood flow better, and to prevent heart attacks.

I might get some just incase.

I take Aspirin, not because I was advised to but because of the reports I read, been on them about 5 years, I also take statins because I need to.

Get some- but make sure that they're coated aspirin- and take them at night as they're absorbed into your bloodstream more effectively.
However- they thin the blood out well but there are two other things to be aware of:

a) if you nick yourself shaving then it takes forever for the blood to congeal and stop bleeding
b) any drugs that you take get into your bloodstream much more quickly. That includes alcohol- so I now feel pissed after  couple of pints! That's good because it makes nights out cheap- but three glasses of wine and you're falling asleep

Not wishing to merge the Cholesterol and Chalfont thread, but I have had a medical brainwave. Why don't doctors inject cholesterol into the Chalfonts? That should kill the buggers.

rammywhite wrote:
b) any drugs that you take get into your bloodstream much more quickly. That includes alcohol- so I now feel pissed after  couple of pints! That's good because it makes nights out cheap- but three glasses of wine and you're falling asleep

Sounds good