Ok, another week and it started off great! I did have problems sleeping last night but finally got rest ..I think. LOL! So did some cleaning and sorting and then went swimming for an hour. It was pretty nice to get in the water and glide my body along and stretch my limbs! Came back home and had a turkey sandwich on whole wheat pita and some lettuce (Spring mix no Iceburg!) Anyways, called about the Flaxseed Oil liquid I bought yesterday from Sundown Naturals. I had opened it and it had a fishy smell...not good! From everything I had read online--Flaxseed Oil+ Fishy smell= rancid flaxseed. So I called the company instead of Meijers where I bought it. The girl insisted I leave the cap off the bottle to 'air it out" and that the fishy smell was quite normal. When I tried to tell her "No, it is not" she kept talking over me, until finally I said 'WILL YOU JUST LET ME FINISH WHAT I AM SAYING????!!" And she said well of course Ma'am. And when I started to say something again--she cut me off so I asked to speak to someone else and she said hold on...I waited and waited and then it cut me off. So now I am really steamed! LOL! I e-mailed corporate to complain. So then I decided I would call Meijers. Quite a different response! In fact the manager I spoke to said she takes Flaxseed Oil and NO--it is not supposed to smell like that! Bring in the bottle and receipt and we will refund your money. Shoulda called them in the first place! :-) A half hour later my doctor's office calls again (see Friday's post!) Same girl..this time she has details. OK--so here are my numbers:
Total cholesterol : 181
LDL:99
HDL: 51
Triglycerides: 153
A1C 6.2
Now the conversation continues: Doc has a note here that she wants to take you off the Pravastatin and put you on Lipitor. Me: That is not acceptable! In fact I insist on not going on Lipitor! I will make an appointment to come in and talk this over with her. So that is what I did. I started to tell the nurse how I have been taking fish oil capsules and that I read recently where it can "appear" to raise your LDL. But decided I would just talk it over with the doc instead. :-) Here is a link on what I found:
http://www.healthcentral.com/cholesterol/c/7986/16181/fish-oil-raise/
I also took Deb's advice and "Asked Dr. Oz" so I hope he answers me! I try so hard to get healthy and it seems I get kicked back down somedays! But if you look...these were my numbers from last August:
Total: 171
LDL 85
HDL: 47
Trig: 194
A1C: 5.8
So, looking at this and comparing last week's...total is up yes, LDL is up, yes, HDL is up YAY! You WANT that! (fish oil does do that) and Triglycerides are DOWN YAYYYY!! again! So she didn't comment on that! what's up with that??? A1C is up too but I have been through the Holidays and Winter too so I kinda expected that to happen. I will discuss all this with her when I see her in April. I gave myself time to research more and print off things for her to read! There is also the weight loss to mention! She is generally good about listening to what I have to say so I am confident it will go well. But any and all prayers will be appreciated!
VB
