Yes, we eat lots of it. But animal products in general, are the cause of high cholesterol. You should eat fish twice a week, and that is pretty hard.

Learn to make sushi. It is actually pretty easy and can dramatically increase your fish intake.

This is terrible advice.

They put me on pills, but I haven't went out and picked them up yet. They messed up when they faxed them in yesterday. They also put me on some fish oil type stuff.

Going to try and get this under control, I am very surprised at all of this. Though I am a little over weight right now (mostly from my back and forth on smoking) I usually stay around my target weight. I do know that it runs in the family.

EDIT: As to your question, I had been feeling like shit (drained) all the time.

Dude, you have a 740 Cholestrol count and you're happy it wasn't "the worst?!"

Wow, the very first time I was warned about my high Cholestrol it was 305. I have never ever been higher than 260 since and don't forget my serious heart attack 2.5 years ago. frankly I have never heard of Ch. that high. I hope I have scared you enough to do something about this before you are really in trouble.

I was eating fish a few times a week but then I read that the mercury levels in a lot of fish are bad, especially for young children, so I cut back to once a week.

Apparently, eating can kill you.

I appreciate that, but I think death is more appealing than raw fish.

740? WTF!

You're practically a solid.

Yeah, probably. Or as my Dad calls it, "Better living through drugs".

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to HemiEd again.

Nah, you're thinking of sashimi. If you find a good sushi place, you'd like it. Spicy tuna roll...yum.

Wow Smitty, this is something you don't want to mess with, at all.

750? First, did your doctor tell you to fast for at least 8 hours before having your cholesterol level checked? That can make an enormous impact on your reading. If they didn't tell you to fast, you need to call back and have them re-test after you've fasted. They should also re-test at no charge if this is the case.

Secondly, diet and exercise will certainly help but there's no way that doing that alone will help your levels drop 500 points.

Cholesterol is created by the liver. Most likely, this is genetic. I had my blood work done two and half years ago and everything was perfect save for my cholesterol. It was 294 and I'm in perfect health and eat very healthy (lots of salads, sushi, chicken, fish, etc.). They told me come back and re-test in 5 days and during that time, I ate only organic berry smoothies and no cholesterol soup. I again tested at 291.

I called everyone in family and begged them to get tested because none of them, including parents ever go to the doctor. It turns out that everyone had numbers in the high 200's or 300's and now they're all on Simvastatin (that's what I'm taking as well). My numbers are now around 160 and it's all good. No side effects.

If you don't like this doctor's advice, go see another doc to confirm. All I can say is take the meds, clean up your diet and get it down.

Best of luck!

Good sushi is probably one of the tastiest things a human mouth can experience. Too bad that shit is so expensive.

I did not know that. I thought all sushi was raw. I'll be damned.

Thanks, I fasted for 12 hours before. They made me an appointment with a nutritionist, so I hope that will help as well.