Sturgeon’s Law

Ninety per­cent of every­thing is crap.

Derived from a quote by sci­ence fic­tion author Theodore Stur­geon, who once said, “Sure, 90% of sci­ence fic­tion is crud. That’s because 90% of every­thing is crud.” Oddly, when Sturgeon’s Law is cited, the final word is almost invari­ably changed to ‘crap’.

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Lipitor Afterall

Just the generic ver­sion. Vis­ited the GP today and my num­bers were about the same as last time. When he hemmed a bit about it think­ing sort of out loud won­der­ing if we should adjust some of the meds I spoke up and asked if we could swap out the Tri­cor as that was the the only pre­scrip­tion I had that wasn’t generic. So he sug­gested Lip­i­tor now that it was avail­able in generic form. I said sign me up. Next check is in February.

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal 80–199 40–110 30–130 30–150
10/10/12 196 36 128 160
04/10/12 193 39 121 166
10/10/11 162 43 88 155
04/04/11 155 38 96 107
12/06/10 176 41 114 105
05/18/10 151 38 91 109
12/15/08 167 41 92 171
03/21/08 164 37 104 115
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

October 18th, 2012 | Tags: | Comments are closed

Back Slid Some

Maybe I should add a col­umn for my weight too. Every win­ter I always gain 5–10 pounds due to inac­tiv­ity and each spring I lose it back. This year I think I have past the age point where los­ing weight becomes much more dif­fi­cult, because I tipped the scales at Dr. PCP’s office at 206.0 today. Maybe it is the extra 10 pounds or maybe the same age marker is to blame for my higher blood borne float­ing fats…

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30–150
04/10/12 193 39 121 166
10/10/11 162 43 88 155
04/04/11 155 38 96 107
12/06/10 176 41 114 105
05/18/10 151 38 91 109
12/15/08 167 41 92 171
03/21/08 164 37 104 115
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

April 18th, 2012 | Tags: | Comments are closed

Mixin’ It Up

Had a visit with Dr. PCP the other day for my bi-annual check up. My chole­strol num­bers were basi­cally very good except for the triglyc­eride anom­aly, but we are shak­ing up the med­ica­tions because the FDA says so. Appar­ently the sim­vas­tatin I’m tak­ing in com­bi­na­tion with another drug might cause myopa­thy (med speak for frakked up mus­cles), so he his chang­ing me to pravas­tatin and recheck­ing in 6 months. At that time we can either up the dosage of the new drug or maybe try the generic ver­sion of Lip­i­tor which is sup­posed to become avail­able next month.

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30–150
10/10/11 162 43 88 155
04/04/11 155 38 96 107
12/06/10 176 41 114 105
05/18/10 151 38 91 109
12/15/08 167 41 92 171
03/21/08 164 37 104 115
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

October 18th, 2011 | Tags: | Comments are closed

Not Much Effect

Last Decem­ber my PCP decided to dou­ble my dosage of sim­vas­tatin in effort to drop my LDL num­bers. Six months of 40mg instead of 20mg low­ered the num­bers slightly, but if you look at what my num­bers were last May on just the 20mg dosage, you’ll see they are pretty much inden­ti­cal to this round of num­bers on a 40 mg dosage. Seventy-five dol­lars later, his learned opin­ion, come back in 6 months.…

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30–150
04/04/11 155 38 96 107
12/06/10 176 41 114 105
05/18/10 151 38 91 109
12/15/08 167 41 92 171
03/21/08 164 37 104 115
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

Started down, still down.
Miata Top Tran­si­tions since 10/24/08: 992
April 11th, 2011 | Tags: | Comments are closed

Double Up

Although these num­bers are not too bad, Dr. PCP says with my high blood pres­sure they would really like to see my HDL be a lot higher, so he says we are going to dou­ble the dose of sim­vas­tatin from 20mg to 40mg. In four months we’ll check again and see if I improve.

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30–150
12/06/10 176 41 114 105
05/18/10 151 38 91 109
12/15/08 167 41 92 171
03/21/08 164 37 104 115
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Tran­si­tions since 10/24/08: 911
December 10th, 2010 | Tags: | Comments are closed

Lipid Panel

I must have missed one of these cho­les­teral updates because the last one I can find is dated Decem­ber 15, 2008…

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30–150
05/18/10 151 38 91 109
12/15/08 167 41 92 171
03/21/08 164 37 104 115
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

Turned on ABC at 9:00PM and Danc­ing with the Stars was on, hey, where’s TDTVS? Oh, yeah, that’s right, it’s over.

Started up, went down, back up, down again, still down.
Miata Top Tran­si­tions since 10/24/08: 638
May 25th, 2010 | Tags: , | Comments are closed

Good Thing It Was Last Monday

Even if you have for­got­ten about my cho­les­teral, my doc­tor hasn’t. As you can see from the most recent num­bers I’m pretty much OK.

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30–150
12/15/08 167 41 92 171
03/21/08 164 37 104 115
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

But it sure was a good thing they took blood early last Mon­day before last week’s high fat, high calo­rie snack over­load­ing (which by the way has con­tin­ued unabated these last two days) because I would be will­ing to bet my cur­rent num­bers are a lot higher.

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Tran­si­tions since 10/24/08: 79
December 23rd, 2008 | Tags: | Comments are closed
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