Geo - Eye's Wide Open 2012
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:33 am
I just had some blood work done on Monday and the results quite frankly shocked me. They weren't unexpected but their severity finally opened my eyes. I need to be serious about this diet/lifestyle...now...before its really too late.
I showed my wife the numbers (she's a nurse) and she started to panic. She of course wanted me to see a doctor right away. But I hate doctors or more accurately I hate the pills and potions they foist on us. I've never used one that wasn't all about treating the systems of chronic disease rather than curing anything. So I tend to avoid them like the plague.
So when my wife said I needed to see a doctor right away my response was no, I'll fix this myself, after all I caused it in the first place and I've read/learned enough to know I CAN fix it. Of course later on I found her crying by herself because she was worried about me. That was the last push I needed. It was then that I decided I really need to do this once and for all, for myself and for my family.
First thing I did was write to Dr Mcd. I'm not his patient and he has no obligation to me what so ever. But I've heard others here recommend it so I gave it a shot. He responded to me a few hours later with some helpful advise and encouragment. (I have no idea how a busy Doctor can be bothered to respond to someone they dont even know, but I'm so grateful he did.) So thus begins my Journey, eyes wide open to the possibilities and the reality. I will heal myself!
For the curious, my stats:
age: 55 Height: 6'0 Weight: 261
Blood Work Report:
Glucose - 131 - high
Creatinine - 1.5 high - may indicate chronic Kidney disease
eGFR - 52 low - a persistant eGFR below 59 (3 months or more) may indicate chronic Kidney disease.
Other metabolic serum levels were all in the normal range thankfully.
Lipids:
Total Cholesterol - 273 high
Triglycerides - 559 Very High with an alert to see a physician and the fact that results were verified by repeated testing.
HDL - 37 low
LDL and VLDL not calculable due to Tri's being so high
Total Cho/HDL ratio - 7 high
C-Reactive Protein - 7 high (High risk for future cvd events starts at 3 so I'm well beyond that)
Basically I'm a walking time bomb for CVD and potentially have kidney disease. This is made more concerning due to the fact I have only one kidney (donated kidney to sister about 16 yrs ago (she was Type 1 diabetic))
And of course chronic disease is a family trait - cvd (father, brother, sister), Diabetes (sister), cancer (sister, mother). I'm determine not to follow in their path now anymore...
geo
I showed my wife the numbers (she's a nurse) and she started to panic. She of course wanted me to see a doctor right away. But I hate doctors or more accurately I hate the pills and potions they foist on us. I've never used one that wasn't all about treating the systems of chronic disease rather than curing anything. So I tend to avoid them like the plague.
So when my wife said I needed to see a doctor right away my response was no, I'll fix this myself, after all I caused it in the first place and I've read/learned enough to know I CAN fix it. Of course later on I found her crying by herself because she was worried about me. That was the last push I needed. It was then that I decided I really need to do this once and for all, for myself and for my family.
First thing I did was write to Dr Mcd. I'm not his patient and he has no obligation to me what so ever. But I've heard others here recommend it so I gave it a shot. He responded to me a few hours later with some helpful advise and encouragment. (I have no idea how a busy Doctor can be bothered to respond to someone they dont even know, but I'm so grateful he did.) So thus begins my Journey, eyes wide open to the possibilities and the reality. I will heal myself!
For the curious, my stats:
age: 55 Height: 6'0 Weight: 261
Blood Work Report:
Glucose - 131 - high
Creatinine - 1.5 high - may indicate chronic Kidney disease
eGFR - 52 low - a persistant eGFR below 59 (3 months or more) may indicate chronic Kidney disease.
Other metabolic serum levels were all in the normal range thankfully.
Lipids:
Total Cholesterol - 273 high
Triglycerides - 559 Very High with an alert to see a physician and the fact that results were verified by repeated testing.
HDL - 37 low
LDL and VLDL not calculable due to Tri's being so high
Total Cho/HDL ratio - 7 high
C-Reactive Protein - 7 high (High risk for future cvd events starts at 3 so I'm well beyond that)
Basically I'm a walking time bomb for CVD and potentially have kidney disease. This is made more concerning due to the fact I have only one kidney (donated kidney to sister about 16 yrs ago (she was Type 1 diabetic))
And of course chronic disease is a family trait - cvd (father, brother, sister), Diabetes (sister), cancer (sister, mother). I'm determine not to follow in their path now anymore...
geo