Friday I had my annual physical and they pulled blood to check my cholesterol levels. And — wow, check it out!
Date LDL HDL 2007-12 150 N/A 2008-06 142 33 2008-08 118 38 2008-11 90 41
I’m actually quite surprised at how low my LDLs are! I almost halved my LDL levels in the course of a year. Looks like I’ll be staying on the niacin and fish-oil pills for the foreseeable future.
Digital Ramblings 
Congrats to your good health! Keep up the good work and you’ll outlive us all. :-)
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Wow, those are really impressive results! Congrats!
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cholesterol
Casey your numbers are amazing. I too am facing this problem and just started on Niacin – will ask DR about fish oil. I would love to have your numbers!!
Mary Plese – FCC
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Re: cholesterol
I look at the numbers and am still impressed myself! I’m taking 3g of niacin a day (1.5g in the morning and 1.5g at night) for the sole objective of increasing my HDL levels — and that’s a lot of niacin! The fish oil pills are to help lower my LDL levels.
I looked around and found a bottle of 240 count 500mg tablets at GNC but they were the flushing kind. All the non-flushing seem to come in much smaller quantities and cost a bit more so every couple two months I go to GNC and buy 2 bottles and pick up a large bottle of generic aspirin at Target. Taking a single aspirin with each 1.5g dose of niacin turns the flushing into only a mild irritant instead of a major discomfort. It’s gotten to the point that I don’t even notice it.
The fish oil pills I also get at GNC. Previously I was taking three 100mg Omega-3 pills (purchased at Target) at bedtime until I found the 300mg Omega-3 fish oil pills at GNC — pills that were the same size as the 100mg Omega-3 ones — so that cut it down to just one fish oil pill at bedtime. The only time I don’t take the fish oil pill is if I have acid reflux at bedtime as that’s a sure fire way to get fish burps – ick!
Best of luck with your own cholesterol-lowering adventure!
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