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I was already taking omega-3 pills for all their promised benefits for your joints, brain etc. I'd never had a cholesterol test before, so I don't know if they were helping that as well (perhaps it was even higher a year ago before I started taking them). Thanks for all the support peoples...

:clap2: That face is the very epitome of "Indignant".

Don't worry - I am at heart one of life's optimists. :wave:

I'm 100% with you there. This is the first prescription drug I've been given since I was 15 (i.e. a bloody long time). Which makes it a double pisser. I've never been one to reach for the medicine cabinet unless absolutely necessary.

No, you said it fine. I was a bit surprised I admit. I was expecting him to say something like: "Change your lifestyle habits, come back in six months and if things haven't improved, THEN we'll try drugs". But his theory was" "You're young, you're healthy, you're thin, you don't smoke, your...

Perhaps we should form a support group. :lolol:

Cheers. :thumbsup:

I already fart enough to lift the duvet at night, so I don't suppose I'll notice that much difference. It's more that whenever I visit my parents these days I look at the array of little pills they get out and have to take every dinner time, and I think "poor sods, they're starting to get old -...

Unfortunately the doctor is probably right though. Both my mum and dad have it. My lifestyle is identical to Mrs Trufflehound's, including the beer part, yet her levels were 40% lower than mine. The genes are the only difference between us. Cutting down the beer might make a light difference...

So here I am, a young(ish) 45. I think I'm pretty fit. I eat a healthy diet - not too much meat, lots of fibre and all that. I'm not overweight. I exercise regularly. I don't smoke or do any other drugs. OK, so I probably drink "a little" (insert ironic smiley here) more beer than a doctor would...