PCOS strikes AGAIN!

So here goes....

I had blood taken last Thursday to check my insulin levels to reset my Metformin dosage. Rich has agreed to start trying again in July! That's the exciting news. We will also have to see if I'm ready in July, as I keep vacillating back and forth. For those friends that read this blog, we will tell you when we are pregnant, people asking if we are 'pregnant yet' drives me insane! Since our miscarriage risk is 50% for the first 12 weeks it is a VERY stressful time for us and we like to stay private.

Here's yesterday's conversation:

The bad news according to the nurse. I quote " We don't normally ask for a cholesterol panel but your numbers didn't come back good'

Me: 'GReat!' (put a lot of sarcasm there)

Numbers:

Overall Chol - 184
Triglycerides - 225(this is the one they are concerned with)
HDL - 33
Bad Chol - 45
Some other bad # - 106
ratio: 3:2

The nurse didn't tell me what the ratio exactly meant but she made it sound bad. My understanding is that I have abnormally HIGH numbers of bad cholesterol compared to the good.

This is what I found out this afternoon when I googled. Dyslipidemia is the actual term for it when cholesterol level is in normal range but triglyc. are high. It is caused by extended periods
of raised insulin levels...hmmm sound familiar. Women with PCOS tend to have a higher total cholesterol and higher triglycerides because of the Insulin Resistance and imbalances that come with the disease. Here is the Wikipedia article that I found - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslipidemia

With the family history on my mom's side of high cholesterol and blood pressure, the cards are just stacked against me on this one. My Bepaw had 2 quadruple bypasses and was on a STRICT diet for the last 20 yrs of his diet. The good news is that with all the problems the family is SUPER informed on how to combat the deck of cards that is set against us. PCOS + family history = long medical road.

I'm hoping to get things more under control by working out and switching some things in my diet. (eat fish more). I already work out 5-7 hrs of cardio a week so I think I'm good there. I've lost 10 lbs since Jan. 1st so hopefully the next 20 lbs will also help that number.