So upset today....
This post isn't going to stay up for long.. but i have to get it out ... so stressed.
Earlier in the year my bf's mother had a near fatal cardiac arrest - this encouraged my bf to get checked out also because of his father dying of a C.A very young. He had blood tests 6 months ago that showed his cholesterol was elevated and this resulted in him going on statins. He vowed that he'd' stop drinking....that turned into not drinking so much, which to be fair, he had cut down...but still drinking above average, every single day of the week without missing a single day... thus, never not having alcohol in his system, regardless of the volume of which he was consuming it and to be honest, i have NO idea how much he drinks or what he drinks when i am not with him, which is 4/5 days a week.
Fast forward to last week....
He had to have another blood test done to see if his cholesterol levels had dropped... We went into the doctors today and found out that yes, it has dropped (still above normal though) and now his triglyceride levels are 'high' not very high, just 'high' - but... higher than 6 months ago and double the normal reading for a man of his age..
Now, researching this triglyceride level and from what i had found, it's caused by either being overweight, which he's not, eating crappy food, which he doesn't...OR...excessive drinking - which he does do... So looking through all the information, my boyfriend is completely baffled as to why his levels are high... He was banging on about how he eats well, he's fit... he's not overweight, but completely missing out the fact that alcohol is one of the main contributing factors of raised levels... This raised level on it's own is pretty bad, but add high cholesterol and high blood pressure with it, and it's a fucking disaster waiting to happen... He CANNOT see that alcohol would do this... I read and reread different things i found and it still didn't sink in...
He calls me and i'm obviously upset with what i have been reading and then he starts having a go at me about going to the doctors 'all the time' which i don't... then he started having a go about my mum going to the doctors 'all the time' which she doesn't either...only to have HER blood pressure checked because hers is high too, but he was going on and on and on about it... saying that i am just like my mother, it's learned behaviour..., slag me off all you like, but don't bring my mother into the conversation - and it got worse, because he then started on my friend too....
...so i am in tears now, but not letting him know. Then i started thinking... I asked him if he'd been drinking tonight and he said......"YES".... WTFFFFFFFF? My head was in bits... I could NOT understand after getting a shitty result and after all we read about it, he was STILL drinking alcohol....
Earlier in the year my bf's mother had a near fatal cardiac arrest - this encouraged my bf to get checked out also because of his father dying of a C.A very young. He had blood tests 6 months ago that showed his cholesterol was elevated and this resulted in him going on statins. He vowed that he'd' stop drinking....that turned into not drinking so much, which to be fair, he had cut down...but still drinking above average, every single day of the week without missing a single day... thus, never not having alcohol in his system, regardless of the volume of which he was consuming it and to be honest, i have NO idea how much he drinks or what he drinks when i am not with him, which is 4/5 days a week.
Fast forward to last week....
He had to have another blood test done to see if his cholesterol levels had dropped... We went into the doctors today and found out that yes, it has dropped (still above normal though) and now his triglyceride levels are 'high' not very high, just 'high' - but... higher than 6 months ago and double the normal reading for a man of his age..
Now, researching this triglyceride level and from what i had found, it's caused by either being overweight, which he's not, eating crappy food, which he doesn't...OR...excessive drinking - which he does do... So looking through all the information, my boyfriend is completely baffled as to why his levels are high... He was banging on about how he eats well, he's fit... he's not overweight, but completely missing out the fact that alcohol is one of the main contributing factors of raised levels... This raised level on it's own is pretty bad, but add high cholesterol and high blood pressure with it, and it's a fucking disaster waiting to happen... He CANNOT see that alcohol would do this... I read and reread different things i found and it still didn't sink in...
He calls me and i'm obviously upset with what i have been reading and then he starts having a go at me about going to the doctors 'all the time' which i don't... then he started having a go about my mum going to the doctors 'all the time' which she doesn't either...only to have HER blood pressure checked because hers is high too, but he was going on and on and on about it... saying that i am just like my mother, it's learned behaviour..., slag me off all you like, but don't bring my mother into the conversation - and it got worse, because he then started on my friend too....
...so i am in tears now, but not letting him know. Then i started thinking... I asked him if he'd been drinking tonight and he said......"YES".... WTFFFFFFFF? My head was in bits... I could NOT understand after getting a shitty result and after all we read about it, he was STILL drinking alcohol....
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