“Triglycerides are still through the roof. Tying to cut the carbs. Bread and sweets are my downfall.”
You REALLY need to give up white foods, fruit, and sugar. Sugar is tough because it’s addictive and takes about two weeks for the cravings to subside. Also, you can’t really have any at all, including fruit, or soon you’ll be addicted again.
If you do this, your Triglycerides should plummet, and high Triglycerides are a MUCH bigger predictor of heart disease than cholesterol, which as it turns out is fundamentally unrelated to heart disease.
My cardiologist told me that he knows that stains lowering cholesterol is not why they appear to work, because several other non-statin cholesterol lowering drugs have NO impact at all on heart disease and overall mortality. He thinks statins may have an inflammatory effect but admits he doesn’t really know why they appear to work. At any rate, I refuse to take statins, no matter what.
Thanks for the info and reply. I am getting rid of all high carb products in our kitchen as I type. Sugar, cake mixes, cookies, pasta, etc. Lipitor is a statin that my cardiologist prescribed. I took it for about a year before I started having leg cramps, feeling tired, panic attacks,and foggy headed. I did a little research on Lipitor and found many people had the same symptoms. Stopped taking it, and after two weeks, I felt like a new person. Going to be a struggle, but giving up those carbs beats lying in a casket. Thanks again.