About a week ago I checked my voice mail and realized my phone had failed to tell me that my doctor's office phoned about a week prior. When I phoned them back, apparently my doctor wanted to talk to me about my blood work. Now I had just seen my blood work and knew that everything seemed fine. The receptionist scheduled me in and told me it was nothing to worry about. But of course it was at the back of my mind a bit all week.
Well today was that appointment. I got my flu shot and then he pulled out a book of guidelines, which showed that when someone is 30 with diabetes, it's time to start worrying a bit about their cholesterol levels. I mentioned back in Feb 2012 (when I was going on Accutane) that I tend to have elevated cholesterol levels (it runs in my family). My endocrinologist has made note of it before, but stopped saying anything for the last while (which my diabetes educators said must mean the levels have been fine). So hopefully everything is fine. But now that I'm a bit older I need to make sure it stays down because I do not want to be taking medication for it!
So I took a quick look online. According to the Mayo Clinic, exercising, eating healthy, and losing a bit of weight will help keep those levels down (so that means I'm on the right track if I'm already wanting to be healthier!) They further recommended some foods that will help lower cholesterol. So it looks like I'll need to add a bit more of those to my diet, just in case!
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