For those of you hanging around to see if my lipid profile ever levels off with all the numbers in the green, you will have to come back in 6 months. My latest numbers, from a blood draw on the 6th of this month, are the best ones yet, but a couple of numbers are still slightly off. Medication remains the same from the last testing, Tricor, and the supplement as well, 600mg of “red yeast rice.” Two things have changed since the December test; 1) in January I started drinking one 4oz glass of red wine with dinner at home and 2) about a month ago I changed my breakfast cereal from Frosted Mini Wheats to the new Smart Start? Healthy Heart Maple Brown Sugar.
| Chol | HDL | LDL | Trig | |
| Goal | <200 | >40 | <100 | 30-150 |
| 09/21/04 | 209 | 24 | 131 | 271 |
| 01/10/05 | 176 | 33 | 110 | 167 |
| 05/06/05 | 174 | 27 | 108 | 194 |
| 06/17/05 | 164 | 31 | 85 | 238 |
| 07/28/05 | 177 | 30 | 113 | 169 |
| 12/08/05 | 182 | 35 | 120 | 137 |
| 04/06/06 | 168 | 37 | 106 | 126 |