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Fun With Cholesterol
8/12/06 04:26 pmI've had high cholesterol for a couple of years now (it was one of the reasons I had weight loss surgery, well, that and weighing almost 350 lbs...), and have been on almost every cholesterol drug you can think of, none of which worked all that great.
Well, after losing 100+ lbs, and the cholesterol not really changing, the doctor decided there must be a genetic component to the problem, so she put me on Vytorin, which is supposed to work on the genetic aspect as well. Vytorin is a combination of two medications: Zocor (simvastatin) and Zetia (ezetimbe). One of them deals with the cholesterol you get from food, the other deals with the cholesterol your body makes -- I don't remember which does what, and can't be arsed to look it up. If you care, go Google it.
Anyway, the one that blocks fat absorption in the gut is sure as hell working -- I've been noticing a scum on the surface of the toilet water after I have a nice relaxing shit. I didn't really know what it was, but then the other day I made fried shrimp and french fries for supper. Pan fried, so you know it was good. Good and greasy. Mmmmmm.
A few hours later I went for my nightly de-fecalization, and lo and behold, in the toilet were nice, coherent globules of FAT!! Clear, somewhat golden, discrete little droplets of pure oil suspended in the usual yellowish scum.
I was unduly impressed with my innards.... now I suppose I should have my cholesterol checked to see if the numbers have come down any.
Well, after losing 100+ lbs, and the cholesterol not really changing, the doctor decided there must be a genetic component to the problem, so she put me on Vytorin, which is supposed to work on the genetic aspect as well. Vytorin is a combination of two medications: Zocor (simvastatin) and Zetia (ezetimbe). One of them deals with the cholesterol you get from food, the other deals with the cholesterol your body makes -- I don't remember which does what, and can't be arsed to look it up. If you care, go Google it.
Anyway, the one that blocks fat absorption in the gut is sure as hell working -- I've been noticing a scum on the surface of the toilet water after I have a nice relaxing shit. I didn't really know what it was, but then the other day I made fried shrimp and french fries for supper. Pan fried, so you know it was good. Good and greasy. Mmmmmm.
A few hours later I went for my nightly de-fecalization, and lo and behold, in the toilet were nice, coherent globules of FAT!! Clear, somewhat golden, discrete little droplets of pure oil suspended in the usual yellowish scum.
I was unduly impressed with my innards.... now I suppose I should have my cholesterol checked to see if the numbers have come down any.
