What Is The Best Treatment For High Cholesterol?

If High Cholesterol is Diagnosed:  What Are the Treatments?

The best treatment for a high cholesterol diagnosis is life style changes. 

You must change your diet.  Eating fatty foods and fast foods will not only keep your cholesterol high but will in time increase it to very dangerous levels. 

Along with diet you need to exercise regularly.  If you are not exercising now, start.  Start slow, but increase it until you see a significant change of weight or muscle mass. 

If you are a smoker, it is time to quit.  Not only is the tobacco contributing to your high cholesterol, but it also has the double danger of producing mouth, throat, and lung cancer. If the lifestyle changes are not enough your doctor may prescribe medications that will help lower your cholesterol. 

Remember that medications are a tool to help lower your cholesterol numbers, but you have to change your diet and exercise also. If you are prescribed medications you will probably have to take it for many years. 

Without insurance this can expensive, because if you go off your medications, your high blood pressure could spike and send you over the edge toward heart disease or stroke. Most doctors will prescribe medication if you LDL cholesterol level is about 160.  This means that plague has probably already begin to grow in your blood vessels and arteries and you are at a heightened danger of heart disease or stroke.  Your blood vessels are starting to restrict the flow of oxygen from your heart, brain, and other vital organs in your body.  The doctor will probably prescribe medications if the life style changes do not get you to the preferred level of LDL level, which is 100.

The doctor might prescribe you a resin which lower cholesterol indirectly by combining and binding to the bile acids in your intestinal tract.  These medicines include Questran and Colstid.  These medications provide a initiator to allow your liver to produce more bile acids so the digestion happens faster.  It stops the cycle of the body needing bile acids and the liver not being able to make bile acids because the cholesterol is stopping or hindering it.  Because of this cycle less cholesterol is able to get into the bloodstream and even the HDL, the good cholesterol suffers.

Another medication might be triglyceride- lowering drugs.  Named Lopid and Tricor, these medications reduce triglyceride production and actively reduce them from getting in the blood stream and wrecking havoc. These can increase the HDL level and at the same time reduce the LDL.  Statins made be used as another medication to stop the liver from making cholesterol.  The statins have a duel purpose in fighting bad high cholesterol. They can reduce LDL by around forty percent and at they same time they allow the plague that been built up around the walls of your blood vessels to decrease or be able to absorb through the wall and be digested or used by the body.  As the plague decreases, your blood will flow more evenly and your body will get the oxygen it needs to survive.  Popular statins are Lescol, Mevacor, Zocor, Pravachol, and Lipitor. Remember if you get put on these medications, it may be a long time before you are able to come off them.  It takes time to get the plague off the vessel walls and even more time to reduce your LCL levels.  Make sure that you have health insurance and they you are able to afford to continue their use.