Life has to change today!-cholestral problem

de1amo

well the heart is strong and well formed---i had a 20 minute tread mill workout that showed i have a very good heart---the cardiologist just told me to cut down on fatty food and eat more greens which probably applies to 90pc of us.--he wasnt concerned.
The shrink was shocked that i had been left on so many drugs for some many years without any sign of relapse(this a revolution because for my disorder its the patient that stops the meds!)
He will investigate my liver with a blood test tomorrow and then start removing drugs--he thinks i have the liver of an alcoholic but i keep pleading innocence--the liver is being overloaded by drugs combined with its lack of processiing ability of alcohol and that is genetic.
İ stopped drinking before and i can again--but i am fed up with people thinking i have drunk too much(like an alcoholic)--my liver just cant cope with all these drugs and the reasonable amount of alcohol i consume.
i do question how the uk shrinks just jetison people onto the GPs who have little knowledge and prescribing knowledge of MH drugs---left to rot is how i see it!--good old NHS
Both docs put the cholesterol down to the liver and its coping mechanism with all the stress--both say it will return to normal with no alcohol.--day 6 of AF

Edwardia

Well done on 6 days without alcohol, but really if you'd done that before you wouldn't have been stressing your liver.

Johns Hopkins University found that a low fat diet is seven times more likely to give people non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). A study from University of Texas South Western Medical Center found that putting patients with NAFLD on a low carb diet improved their health by diminishing the hepatitic fat - so you might want to Google a bit and ask questions of the liver guy re a low fat diet !

the_cat

de1amo wrote: »

İ stopped drinking before and i can again--but i am fed up with people thinking i have drunk too much(like an alcoholic)--my liver just cant cope with all these drugs and the reasonable amount of alcohol i consume.

Just bear in mind that each person has a different 'reasonable' amount of alcohol! Each of us is an individual and for you, it appears that your system is unable to tolerate the amount of alcohol you have been consuming, however 'reasonable' it may be to someone else without genetic issues/medicines to factor in

So, for your set of circumstances, you HAVE been consuming too much!

Well done on the first 6 days though:T

de1amo

When i lived in the uk i drank far more!! the NHS doctors regularly tested my liver and organs and at no time warned me about my lifestyle!--at one point my father actually told me i had turned yellow but still no advice about my drinking

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if you are in the hands of susposed professionals with all the info you tend to think you're ok and carry on drinking when they say nothing!

margaretclare

So it's always someone else's fault. What about thinking for yourself?

patchwork_cat

You mentioned that you stopped drinking because you were yellow! Jaundice is a sign of severe liver damage,(except in Gilbert's and newborns!) stop blaming it on your meds, this is exactly the same attitude that you had previously on the thread about your drink driving.

If you have cirrhosis and have a history of drinking and developing jaundice as a result then it is as a result of alcohol. Me think thou doest protest too much!

floss2

de1amo wrote: »

When i lived in the uk i drank far more!! the NHS doctors regularly tested my liver and organs and at no time warned me about my lifestyle!--at one point my father actually told me i had turned yellow but still no advice about my drinking

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if you are in the hands of susposed professionals with all the info you tend to think you're ok and carry on drinking when they say nothing!

When will you start to take responsibility for your own health & well-being?

Have you never in 10 years asked about why you were still on such a cocktail of drugs if you were aware that they were compromising your liver function - a liver that already has its own "genetic" issues without further stress from drugs or excess drink?

Perhaps the NHS doctors weren't given the full information about your lifestyle - after all, you've posted several different versions of your drinking levels to my knowledge over the past 12-18 months (and I'm not an avid reader of all the boards, only 3 plus the OS Daily).

Dave_liverpool

I hate to be the 1 to add more fuel into this fire but I'm sure the OP has been a drinker of Raki, a highly potent % Turkish spirit. As a frequent visitor to Turkey I have tried it a couple of times and know it to be rocket fuel.

de1amo

i am not that 'keen' on raki and you are right it is very potent---i avoid it because of that.--i drank Tubourg draft beer in a bottle! alcohol is expensive compared to the rest of the costs in life which is why i said i was wasting money! --beer costs 1,50 a bottle from the corner shop and when you're out 4 quid.

PaulJM

kaya wrote: »

Read " the great cholesterol con" by doctor Malcolm kendrick , realise that this is the best selling and most profitable drug of all time as well, the link between a high fat diet, high chollesterol and heart disease is about as factual and proven as man made CO2 causing global warming, also ask yourself why there is absolutely no proof in existence that statins effect the mortality rate in women yet millions of women worldwide are prescribed this drug by their GP's , they are as usefull as SSRI's and thalidomide

I haven't read this, but from my experience, this is utter rubbish.
I'm 35, the right weight, a none smoker, with no family history.
I'd been running with high cholesterol for years, and they wanted me to control it with diet.
Pains and tests last year showed I had severely blocked arteries and needed a triple bypass immediately, which I had.

I'm now on statins, and my cholesterol is fine.
I'm almost 100% sure, and so is the surgeon and consultant, that my body cannot handle cholestorol - it doesn't break it down, and Statins help me do that. This is probably a direct link to me needing that op.

Whilst I'm aware of conspircies happening over the world, things like this are ill thought out. Why would my surgeon by behind this consiripcy? Why would NICE authorise them for the NHS? They have brains too.