Well said, you can use those sources for information to compile a list to ask your doctors.
Never be your own doctor because of what you read on the internet.
There are good sources of information on the internet but it's a tool to have a conversation with your doctor. NOT for someone to play doctor. My wife and I met with 3 different cancer specialists at a group meeting just for me to discuss my case, it lasted maybe 2 hours, each doctor in their respective specialty. Not to treat me or have me make a decision, a real conference to discuss my options.
I had about 6 weeks to prepare. I found reliable sources on the internet (real doctors and practices) to compile a list of questions for the specialists I was meeting with. I also wanted to learn what the different treatments and language used so I could understand them when we met.
I told them this upon meeting with them. They were impressed at my desire to understand everything and my efforts to be prepared. Most of all they acknowledged some of the sources I brought up. This was no Mickey Mouse cancer clinic. This was Duke University Cancer clinic with the whole (6 or 7th floor) dedicated to cancers of my type. (Im all good now, baring some battle scars, another thread)
I have another story on a heart timing issue, since corrected 2 years before that, using my Apple Watch, being proactive got me faster procedure to have it corrected.
BTW- I am in (depending on how you look at it *LOL*) good health, stellar blood workups my whole life, until prostate cancer. I eat right, do not eat fast food and weight what I am supposed to weigh (except now over weight after 6 months of a cancer drug) but losing it again.
I take a 5mg statin based on the insistence of 3 different cardiologists. Even though my LDL is low, my family history is a train wreck to put it nicely. SO far I have not needed intervention except for to correct a small timing issue.
PS, my current cardiologist in our new home area is a product of the Cleveland Clinic. Kind of weird as I get their heart publication monthly for years before even meeting him.
Back to listen to your doctor. With a high Lipo A and nothing that can control it, he wants to see my LDL, if I can get it there, in the 20s to 30s. Even without a statin years back it was NEVER over 100.
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