That's an insane number.

Dude, you got to change your diet NOW ! Not tomorrow! Just google up a cholesterol chart and go from there. Stay away from ****ing McDonalds.

Yeah, if my numbers came back and said 700, I'd probably become a vegetarian for life. Beans and Tofu aren't THAT bad.

Damn, forget the chicken, it's almost as bad as red meat. I'm posting grilled fish recipes in the bbq threads.

Hey HemiEd, aren't you big on turkey?

Go 30 days with eating healthy and exercising before you go on the pills.

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Had 4 stints back in 8/07 then another in march 08, you need to really get on top of this quick.

Having said that, I'm horrible at keeping mine in check. But thanks for the reminder I just made appt to go get mine checked this week again.

They can also wreak havoc on your liver (the cholesterol meds that is).

I was put on a statin about 10 years ago and it ****ed my muscles up. Still have trouble to this day. Be very aware if you start having muscle problems like hand cramps or leg cramps get off that med pronto. Sometimes i can't even type correctly like when I send my Mom an E-mail I always end it with a "Love You" and sometimes it comes out "**** You". It's embarrassing!

don't tell me turkey's bad.....is it?
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Also focus on eating foods containing "GOOD" cholesterol. It helps to remove the "BAD" cholesterol from your system. Salmon.

Lay off this stuff.

Should have added to that - and see if it drops significantly enough where on say a 6 month plan you can get things down to acceptable.

I'm by no means an expert but I do know to avoid pills when possible.

did you get your bloodwork done on a regular checkup.. or were you having an issue with something?

No, I don't think so. That's why I was asking Ed, I know he eats a lot of smoked turkey. So I think you're good.

But seriously, all the exercise and diet advice is kind of silly at this point in time, I mean it can probably drop his levels by 30-50 points if he does really well, and where that would make a big difference to someone with 250, at 750 it would be like using a BB gun on a elephant. High doses of statins + a heavy diet are probably in order.