What is your cholesterol level?

[FuckyNell]

Mines 7! I'm 43 and on the cusp of healthy/overweight.

Bit concerned really as only 2 years ago it was 5.5.

What's yours?

4.7 and am very overweight (probably 6 stone overweight).

Oh dear Neu so there's no rhyme or reason then eh? I'm worried I might get pressured into statins

No. I must admit I avoided having it done for years then bit the bullet a couple of years ago. I would guess my BMI was about 40 then so I was very pleasantly surprised and relieved.

I have since lost a couple of stone but still have cholesterol that varies between 4.4 and 4.8 so fine.

Good luck with yours.

I wonder whether the doc will mention statins. I thought though that you had to have other raised markers though?

Did you check it yourself or at gps? What body shape are you?

59, healthy weight, cholesterol 6.2 or thereabouts for the last five years.

GP has never mentioned statins to me.

I had an over 40 check at gp and that was 5.5 then a couple of months ago a bupa health screen was 7.

I'm an apple I guess? 5'4 10 stone 4

Mrs did your gp even say yours was high?

5.3 at my last check and it shows on my face the gps not concerned as I had 'more good than bad' whatever that means. No statins here.

IM GONNA DIIIIEEEEE

Mines higher than all yours!!

How does it show in your face?

I asked about body shape because I wondered if you might be an apple (like me!) as we're more prone to that sort of stuff I believe

Oh great.

I guess I need to lose a few pounds then

It's just a bit more important to keep your waist size, in particular, under the 33 inches mark, as Apple shapes carry more fat around their internal organs and are a bit more prone to diabetes, heart disease etc. Depressing but apparently true. I need to get a few inches off as have been just under the 33 inch mark for a few years and have piled on over a stone in the last 6 months.

Xanthelasma. One of the most upsetting things ever to happen to me.