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    From: JK Gatto <[log in to unmask]>

  
      I'd tell the doc he can put the zocor where the sun don't shine.  That is just bad medicine right there.  "Above all do no harm" and next to the     SSRI's those run equal in harm......   Oliva


    "If they can stop you from asking the right questions, you'll never come up with the right answers."

    Keep on keepin' on !

The entire issue with Cholesterol is confusing.  I've heard it is not a concern unless it goes over 240, then I read other places over 300 (of course the drug companies are pushing for 180)
But then I also hear that there isn't a concern unless LDL goes over 160, which it has.    There is a formal that says if Triglycerides / HDL is under 3.0 then you are ok:   For example mine was   TG 63/ HDL 42 = 1.5,  Her's is  209 / 53 = 3.94.
Looking at the other ratio commonly used:  Total Chol  253 / HDL 53 = 4.7 is supposed to be under 5 which it is.

As for telling the doctor to stick it where the sun doesn't shine.  She is a little afraid to do that at this time.  This doctor is working with her to wean her off of Xanax.  When she is free Xanax she may be less cooperative with the doctor.
How did she get on Xanax?  Well she was suffering fatigue a few years ago and went to a different doctor who put her on a SSRI.  Zoloft.  Then she got so would up on the Zoloft she couldn't sleep for almost an entire week.  I actually called 911 for the paramedics to take her to the hospital because she was starting day 7 of no sleep.  Well she got off the Zoloft but got addicted to Xanax in the process.

Oh, and by the way:  The reason for the fatigue was she needed a heart pacemaker.  Pacemaker surgery is rather routine and she probably would of been properly diagnosed 20 years ago. But there is such a frenzy to put anyone not feeling well on an SSRI that if you go to a doctor complaining of fatigue you are going to leave the office with a SSRI prescription before the lab results come back!
Tonight I heard Hillary say that the cost of health care doubles every 10 years.  But it seems to me that doctor competence goes the other way and halves every 10 years.