Posted by Reggie BoStar on August 10, 2013, at 21:52:29
In reply to Re: If Levitra/Staxyn do nothing - more background » Reggie BoStar, posted by Phillipa on August 10, 2013, at 20:56:37
> You are right makes no sense if the surgery corrected the plaque. How are your other arteries? Any idea? Phillipa
Everything checked out OK in my last physical, only a few months ago. In fact my HDL has gone up by 20+ points in the last few years and is still climbing.
I had always had trouble getting my HDL above 45, the minimum for males in my age group when I was in my 40's.
Then age 50 rolled around and I had to start taking Lovastatin to keep my LDL levels down. It worked well enough for LDL but HDL was still stuck around 45.
Everything changed when I started taking 1000mg Fish Oil supplements every day. Within months my HDL went from 45 to 60 and LDL stayed where it was, slightly less than 200.
In this last physical, my HDL was measured as 67. It's still climbing.
Now of course the status of my arteries was determined in the usual way by my MD in that exam. That is, he used his stethoscope to monitor my heart arteries and neck carotids. There were no signs of obstruction as far as those measurements went.
There is a history of age-onset dementia on my father's side of the family, caused not by Alzheimer's but by artereosclerosis in the cerebral arteries. There's no history of heart problems caused by the same blockages.
Whether or not that dementia was associated with ED I can't say. My father never reported it, but then he wouldn't have said anything about that to me.
Maybe there is a time bomb lurking in me somewhere as indicated by this baffling ED. So far, no one has detected anything unusual.
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