Had an appointment with my doctor yesterday. The bad news is that my doctor won't switch my thyroid medication -- she said that the one I want to switch to is not approved by the FDA, so no doctor in the area would prescribe it to me.
However, the good news is that she's holding off on prescribing any cholesterol meds for at least three months to see where my new numbers are. She told me that after she got off the phone with me earlier this week, she looked at my last numbers and saw that I was improving on this diet, despite the LDL numbers going up. She was the one that suggested that it was most likely because my triglycerides went down so much.
After that, I received these articles from people on the Fat Head page on Facebook confirming it. So now my mind is at ease.
Until the next major health crisis comes along, anyway.
But I think the next time I go in I'm going to go in with my research printed out. I'm against taking a statin because of the side effects, but the non statins have as many side effects, to them, as well. My mom, who is currently taking a statin and had the dosage reduced recently, is going to be going off the med in about three months because her doctors want to be sure since she had a couple of mini strokes in April. My doctor said that if I go on, she wouldn't take me off because she wouldn't know if it was because of the meds or the diet.
So, if I do get prescribed a med in three months for the cholesterol, I won't take it, even if it's a non statin. I refuse to get into that trap of my computer desk turning into an alternate medicine cabinet. Right now, it's just the stuff that I don't mind dealing with -- one for my thyroid, one for the diabetes, and a vitamin supplement that is completely of my own choosing.
So, it looks like the diet change is helping. I just made some changes to my routine, such as adding fish oil supplements to my morning routine, and hopefully things will improve when I get my next blood test in October.
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