Thread: Do you check your cholesterol levels?

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.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Really?

Here is a link to the USA data for Alzheimer's distribution by age:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...oup-in-the-us/

Approximately 81% of Alzheimers patients are aged 75 and above (USA data).

Here is data for heart attacks (USA data):

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...s/syc-20373106

Age. Men age 45 or older and women age 55 or older are more likely to have a heart attack than are younger men and women.

So, show where I am "grossly inaccurate" - you can find your own data links, and I will look it over.

Or, if you have nothing of substantive value to add, fuck off back to your pseudo-erudite reviews of fucking shopping mall pizza joints you pretentious fuckwad.

Agreed. Another one with an over inflated opinion of himself.

Originally Posted by Switch

My father was clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in his early sixties. He died at 67 of heart failure.

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.

Originally Posted by Norton

The major factor imho. At 75 I feel fit. Eat what I want when I want. Been smoking for 61 years and like my granddad will probably live to a century. If not, then so be it. We are all gonna croak. Might as well enjoy the time we have be it short or long.

Exactly Norton. People become obsessed with health and numbers to the point it makes them sick stressing over it.

We all die so live it how you want. Being miserable to live longer is silly. At old age who cares.

Originally Posted by JPPR2

Exactly Norton. People become obsessed with health and numbers to the point it makes them sick stressing over it.

We all die so live it how you want. Being miserable to live longer is silly. At old age who cares.

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.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

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.

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.

Originally Posted by tomcat

...you generalized to include the whole population......

That's what generalization is you muppet.

Now do be a good boy and fuck off eh?

I had porridge for breakfast with a handful of nuts so I'm good for another six months.

Originally Posted by Neverna

I had porridge for breakfast with a handful of nuts

You are as young as who you feel

Originally Posted by Dillinger

You are as young as who you feel

Originally Posted by Neverna

with a handful of nuts

So I've heard.

Originally Posted by JPPR2

People try and live their lives to those numbers and what people forget is those are an average over a huge distribution of variables

...indeed, poor Niddy seems to have forgotten...

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.

Originally Posted by Mandaloopy

Got that down to ever so slightly raised

...is Viagra available in UB?...

^ You can buy benzos and roids over the counter, so I'm guessing yes

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

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.

Originally Posted by mudcat

I fear a long decline in an air conditioned room in the Isan.

...add internet and you've described a number of posters here...

^ *nervous laughter* 55 I think...

Originally Posted by mudcat

I fear a long decline in an air conditioned room in the Isan

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...

Originally Posted by tomcat

...indeed, poor Niddy seems to have forgotten...

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.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

You really have got no clue have you?

Originally Posted by nidhogg

even a conceited twerp like you should by now have started to see some light.

...calm down Nid love: think of your youngest's graduation ceremony...

Originally Posted by tomcat

...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...

Flippant and dismissive as usual. This is why you are so annoying.