I would say besides your tone and you begged for forgiveness for that yourself , I would say with that I have to agree 100% with you concerning this particular patient.
I am british so forgive my tone. I cannot believe what I have just read about yourself!! What are you doing. You do not need to see the clevland clinic or any further cardiologists. You need to see a psychiatrist/psychologist urgently. This may seem like I am making fun of yourself but I am deadly serious. I am not surprised your lipid specialist has you taking paxil!!! Stop obsessing about your heart NOW before you fufill your own doom laden nightmares by having another heart attack. Take a step back. Are you really that unfortunate? What about starving billions, people in your own country who would not be able to access the obvious brilliant care you have received so far? Live life- you cannot waste your potential by spending the rest of your life worrying about something that will happen to us all one day- only to things in life are certain death and tax! I am in case you are wondering a specialist registrar in cardiology in Edinburgh.
I'm Gemfibrozil, twice /day 500mg, to lower my cholesterol.
The result were almost fruitless.
I decided to use the tread-mill, walking 3 miles every other day and remove all fatty foods. replaced with high fiber foods.
My cholesterol drop withen six month from 220 to 170.
I'm 73+
I am just curious about apolipoprotein E test. If there are E2/E2,E3/E3,and E4/E4 which one of the above 3 would be the best for person to have and why?What's apolipoprotein E test used for?Thank you
Hi Tom,
I agree it is very important to pay close attention to your diet and exercise. It sounds like you have had a pretty thorough evaluation for the known treatable causes of coronary heart disease. I higher dose of lipator may not hurt. I use a lot of higher dose atorvastatin (Lipator) to bring down the LDL and feel very comfortable with an LDL in the high 50's to 60 range. There are not studies to suggest that low very high dose lipator works any better--it is what I do though.
We would certainly love to see you at the Cleveland Clinic and could offer a second opinion, but am not sure we would change anything.
I hope this helps and keep up the good work.