I went for my follow-up check up yesterday morning, so more blood test; after 45 days on Vytorin 10/40, Niacin and Pristin Fish Oil. My younger brother had had his angiogram done. The cardiologist is not too happy with what he saw as my brother’s Left Descending Anterior Artery is 20% blocked/damaged at its stem as opposed to being further downstream where it would be somewhat easier to remedy.
This is the typical young smokers’ disease. My brother smokes around 26 sticks a day. He exercises regularly, even more than I do, but eats very little of fish and other white meat. What he had forgotten is that my paternal grandfather died of a heart attack at the age of 41 (when my father was 13 years old), why my father had his first attack at the age of 37. My father was a chain smoker too, then, and gave it up immediately; went for his first coronary bypass at the age of 42, an angioplasty at the age of 57, then his second coronary bypass at the age of 61.
Me..everyone expected me to have a bad medical test result. Very little exercise and so on. My first lipid profile back on January 15th is as follows:
Total Cholesterol: 6.4mmol/L (desirable <5.2)
Triglycerides: 1.97mmol/L (desirable <2.28)
HDL Cholesterol: 0.96mmol/L (desirable >1.42)
LDL Cholesterol: 4.6mmol/L (desirable <3.4)
% HDL-Cholesterol Ratio: 15% (desirable >25)
Everything was undesirable except for my Triglycerides’ level.
With Vytorin 10/40 and the increase in my number of dives, the new results are as follows:
Total Cholesterol: 4.1mmol/L (desirable <5.2)
Triglycerides: 1.17mmol/L (desirable <2.28)
HDL Cholesterol: 1.36mmol/L (desirable >1.42)
LDL Cholesterol: 2.2mmol/L (desirable <3.4)
% HDL-Cholesterol Ratio: 33% (desirable >25)
No wonder they call Vytorin the miracle drug. It’s not cheap too. A box of Vytorin 10/40 for 30 days costs more than RM300.
My dosage’s gone down to 10/20 now.
It’s also time for me to watch what I eat. My kids still need me.
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