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Old Feb 03, 2012, 06:23 PM
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Thank you sunny for your thoughts on the sleep study. When I last priced one, 2 years ago it was an enormous amount of money.

I had bloodwork done a week ago. My TSH is high - 7.235. So that medication dose has been upped to 150 mcg. Worse, my trigs are up again, to 780 so I'm starting Lipitor today. (Just irks me to no end how that company will not let this drug go generic, and how the FDA continues to allow this to go on for so long! anyway..)
Cholesterol way up also - 347.
A few other things were a little off, MCH was high, WBC was low, a few others at minimum level of normal.

So, low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, increased exercise, weight loss is my goal. I don't want to be on medication and losing weight will help bring my numbers down and help with the OSA. When I lost weight a few years ago due to illness, I stopped using the CPAP because I really didn't need it since my anatomy changed.

Bloodwork will be done again in 2 months. I hope to be feeling better by then too