#Blood Test for Cholesterol

[unpretty]

god i wish there was a section in mychart to put "we do not have to spend twenty minutes re-litigating the evidence in her fitness tracker before ordering more bloodwork because her existing bloodwork is too good for an ass that fat"

[sylvieons]

Growing up, I always thought my grandmother was right about everything. If my mom was confused about something, we asked my grandma, and she would know the answer, because she was always right!

And now, even as an adult, it's very hard to shake that mindset, especially when it comes to religion, because I've been having a severe crisis over religion the past year.

But today she said something about how "all saints are in the Bible", and I said that no, they're not, and she insisted that yes they are, and I was like "well, Saint Joan of Arc isn't in the Bible, for example" to which she vehemently responded that -SHE IS- and it's just a very helpful moment for me to realize that no, she is not always right. In fact, she is sometimes hardcore wrong.

[loki-zen]

What's the news on saturated fat? My impression was that earlier narratives overly vilified it but that it remains kinda sus.

Well okay, my considered position is "we don't have enough evidence to support a blanket recommendation to everyone that they should alter their diets to reduce saturated fats."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9794145/#:~:text=The%20idea%20that%20saturated%20fats,never%20establish%20a%20causal%20link.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210122/New-model-explains-controversies-over-saturated-fats-and-heart-disease-risk.aspx

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37777760/

As the authors of these papers often point out, official guidance and the practice of many health professionals is still to advise reducing saturated fat. This is probably a good amount inertia and bloody-mindedness. It is not uncommon for experienced doctors to weight their own idiosyncratic and biased-in-the-recollection clinical experience over the preponderance of evidence. Doctors and especially public health bodies like to display "caution" in their recommendations, which is not a terrible instinct necessarily, but I feel it is overapplied in this case.

Nutrition is horribly complicated, and the business of dietary recommendations involves things that people are really on just starting to figure out how to properly take account of in healthcare research, such as patient behaviour in the context of burdensome indefinite medical lifestyle intervention advice.

As it's horribly complicated just to figure out what advice to give one person who we have bloodwork for, it is next to impossible to figure out advice that it's a good idea to give literally everyone. With other kinds of medical interventions, such as drugs and anything with a financial or capacity cost to healthcare providers, 'caution' would mean that even if you had good evidence of benefit in a specific population, you would need evidence of clear benefit in everyone else before you could recommend it to everyone else. (Did you know your cholesterol can be too low? If you haven't got someone's bloodwork how can you know if their cholesterol is too high or too low?) And if a drug had excellent evidence but the papers were all fairly recent, caution might mean being reluctant to suggest it yet. However, in nutrition, "the advice we've been giving since the 1950s" is being treated as a privileged hypothesis in the same way that "not recommending a given drug" is the privileged hypothesis of any public health body or practice guideline until lots of evidence has been accumulated over many years.

I think this is because our models for thinking about medical interventions have double standards about lifestyle interventions. Doctors love them; drugs are scary. Only in recent years (perhaps in no small part due to the increase in published research by AHPs) have we even begun to consider the obvious truth that "not being able to eat the things you like" and "having to read a lot of nutrition labels" and "feeling guilt about what you want to eat" are negative quality-of-life-impacting side effects in the same way as headache or nausea might be negative quality-of-life-affecting side effects of a drug treatment.

Considering all the proper factors, the evidence does not support the recommendation of this intervention for the general public.

[void-of-unparalled-chaos]

The Healthcare horrors persist

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[onlyjellyillputinmybelly]

Do you get your cholesterol/hemoglobin levels checked thru finger prick at check ups?

im talking with friends and am very very concerned for them

[vaquitap1nk]

Me: blood is hot

Also me: *has to cover her eyes while taking a blood sample or is gonna start crying*

[sonderbucky]

medical anxiety is so fun!!!!!!

[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

Well, a mixed bag on the blood test this time. Some improvement in Cholesterol numbers, but no improvement in Hemoglobin A1c, which is really annoying, given how few times I went off Low Carb and had a treat in the last few months... like 2 or 3x, IN 6 MONTHS! So annoying.

I looked back at tests from 2017, when I was working out more frequently and weighed less, and the A1c was about 5.3, so it never has been super low. Does it get super low? I don't know. I'm going to have to do more research on it.

I have a DR appt tomorrow to go over all this, so we'll see what they have to say about it all. These doctors haven't been as asshole-y as some I've had, so hopefully they will have something useful to say.

I really don't want to go on more meds; I'd like to get off the BP meds I'm already on, but that isn't in the cards at this point either.

Sigh.

[aarunresearcher]

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[missmitchieg]

Me: *researching about joint pain*

Internet: It's PCOS.

Me: *researching about circulation issues in my hands*

Internet: Also PCOS.

Me: *researching about my jaw pain*

Internet: PCOS, baby!

[risaparadise]

THAT MANY PEOPLE NEVER HAD A BLOOD DRAW?

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[nancykhemchandani]

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