Be careful guys. Even though I’m on top of his ignore list, he can still see and comment on my posts, and the old fishwife is dispensing unqualified advice again.
His reputation for drugs and human anatomy is based on the fact that his dad used to be a pharmacist, and reading Wikipedia. This and his online mims subscription keeps him up to date.LD knows all there is to know about medicine and drugs.
My father was clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in his early sixties. He died at 67 of heart failure. His diet was mainly liquid, but for the last 5 years of his life, he only left the house if mum forgot to lock the doors.
Like my old man, I’m a smoker and I have always enjoyed a drink. Moving to Asia 10 years ago probably made a big difference, as my body does not enjoy bottled chemical lagers. Had I stayed in the west, drinking 5 or 6 pints of bitter, three times a week, would have got me by now.
Sadly for LD, I’m much smarter and sharper than he’d like to think I am.
My Dad had early onset dementia (probably not Alzheimer's, but Alzheimer's is just one of the age related dementias, although the most common). As I have posted before, mercifully cancer took him fairly painlessly before the dementia got too bad. He was still at the stage where he would ask the same question four or five times in a row in the space of ten minutes. But late stage dementia is horrific, both for the sufferer and the family. I am fairly sure to go out with a nice, swift heart attack. I could think of no greater nightmare than to be elderly in Thailand with significant dementia.
Well, I am 58, so not particularly in "old age". Even surviving the immediate heart attack I had a 1 in 5 chance of dying within 12 months. So, for me, personally, those numbers are quite important. I would like to see my youngest graduate college before popping off this mortal coil.
...you generalized to include the whole population...your data is limited to the ages of Alzheimer patients only...as for heart attack victims: you generalized once again to the whole population...not, as your data suggests, the mere likelihood that older folks are more prone to heart attacks than younger folks...
...I understand your fear of suffering, death, and...um...accuracy, but there's no need to bring pizza into it...
Majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd
I get that but numbers are numbers. . People try and live their lives to those numbers and what people forget is those are an average over a huge distribution of variables. So sure looking at them is Ok. Chasing them is another.
Btw, sorry to hear about the heart attack. One thing about having children young, they grow up when you are in your prime so no worries about legging it out to see them graduate before you check out.
I had porridge for breakfast with a handful of nuts so I'm good for another six months.
Bad cholesterol was raised after living in Myanmar and I was starting to get a gut! Got that down to ever so slightly raised and nearly got the beer gut gone here in Mongolia.
^ You can buy benzos and roids over the counter, so I'm guessing yes
I Had my cholesterol checked last week in thailand
I was shocked at the results, I have being a Vegetarian for almost a year, and I thought it would had made a significant difference. I even stopped taking my statins two months ago.I have also stopped taking my BP medication and my blood pressure has being consistently good. so i thought it would had also improved my Cholesterol.
No red meat, chicken or pork, and no dairy products. I eat fish , mostly Salmon.
I was so shocked I took the test four days later at a different lab
First Lab
Cholesterol 204
HDL 39
LDL 131
Second Lab
Cholesterol 209
HDL 42
LDL 118
How can there be such a difference in the LDL with in four days? are these walkin labs in Thailand accurate?
Just returned to the US and I will have my Cardiologist review the results and possibly having the test redone.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
These values are with 40mg of Lovastatin. My question at seventy is when do I stop the statin and start smoking again. Having lost both of my parents with no notice (pneumonia and a heart attack) and having been responsible for my aunt as she slipped farther and farther into Alzeheimers I know which way I would prefer to go but my worry is between my wife's Buddhism and being worth much more alive than dead (Social Security and a local agency pension, both inflation adjusted) I fear a long decline in an air conditioned room in the Isan.
COMPONENT YOUR VALUE STANDARD RANGE Cholesterol 187 mg/dL <=239 mg/dL Triglyceride 136 mg/dL <=499 mg/dL HDL 44 mg/dL >=40 mg/dL Low density lipoprotein calculated 116 mg/dL <=159 mg/dL
^ *nervous laughter* 55 I think...
That's the crux of it, No? I know so many that are friggen pissed off on their diet and med program they are not really enjoying life but when they visit their doc for a check up, they says God job!! the results look good. What are they chasing? If its long life what good is it if the quality is terrible and the person is miserable.
I will die when I die, Until then I am living it exactly how I want. All in moderation of course, except for Tequila....
My philosophy:
Never had a bad cholesterol reading meself - genetics play a role. Family history and all that...
You really have got no clue have you? Across the population, people start to have heart attacks a decade or more on average than they start to see the onset of Alzheimer's.
Sheesh, its not that difficult a concept, even a conceited twerp like you should by now have started to see some light.
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