Yeah, being fit enough to stand walking a lot is one of my goals. :D I have recently noted that I can't remember the last time I woke up with back pain, even when I wake up and am flat on my back (which used to be a guarantee that I'd be in pain all day), which bodes well for sleeping on floor-level things.
Low despite my weight. :) Mom and I hit the genetic lottery on this sort of thing. My HDL (the good kind) is 60, when you want it to be at least 40 or higher, and my LDL is 62, when you want it to be below 130. Triglycerides - basically fat in your blood - is a bit high, but not high enough to be considered "must treat this now", and after looking it up online, the recommendations for treating it are: cut down or out on alcohol and refined sugars, then exercise and lose weight. So I'm not going to do anything other than what I'm doing already, and see if there's a change when I get retested in 6 months. So between the low bad cholesterol, the high good cholesterol, and my perfectly normal blood pressure, if I'm going to drop dead of something, it's probably not going to be a heart attack. (Mom has high blood pressure, but that showed up only after she went on a course of prednisone.)
The thing they're testing me for - elevated liver enzymes, which signifies possible liver damage, is slightly higher than usual (most likely from the Strattera) but not enough to worry about now. Hence the retest in 6 months to see if there's a change there.
They did all sorts of tests on my blood. I can even tell you my red and white blood cell counts, my T-3 uptake, lots of things ending in -cytes and -phils, and several proteins and other initials. I feel thoroughly analyzed.
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Low despite my weight. :) Mom and I hit the genetic lottery on this sort of thing. My HDL (the good kind) is 60, when you want it to be at least 40 or higher, and my LDL is 62, when you want it to be below 130. Triglycerides - basically fat in your blood - is a bit high, but not high enough to be considered "must treat this now", and after looking it up online, the recommendations for treating it are: cut down or out on alcohol and refined sugars, then exercise and lose weight. So I'm not going to do anything other than what I'm doing already, and see if there's a change when I get retested in 6 months. So between the low bad cholesterol, the high good cholesterol, and my perfectly normal blood pressure, if I'm going to drop dead of something, it's probably not going to be a heart attack. (Mom has high blood pressure, but that showed up only after she went on a course of prednisone.)
The thing they're testing me for - elevated liver enzymes, which signifies possible liver damage, is slightly higher than usual (most likely from the Strattera) but not enough to worry about now. Hence the retest in 6 months to see if there's a change there.
They did all sorts of tests on my blood. I can even tell you my red and white blood cell counts, my T-3 uptake, lots of things ending in -cytes and -phils, and several proteins and other initials. I feel thoroughly analyzed.