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So I go for my blood work and my yearly appointment to my cardiologist...first a little history. Both sides of my family have high blood pressure, bad cholesterol, and just crappy hearts in general, but everyone lives to be in their freakin 90's. So I got the high blood pressure...basically from 122 over 66 to 141 over 77 is my normal readings depending upon the time of the day and what I am doing.
I go for my labs last week and my general practioner calls me back and is like dude your blood work is awesome..my cholesterol is even on the low side..total 114 count. He wants my LDL up a bit more, but overall he was very happy. My liver and kidneys all came back 38 and 49 respectively, so he was thrilled there too.
So I go see the cardiologist yesterday for my routine echocardiogram. My cardiologist walks in and was like everything looks great, you managed to even bring your slightly enlarged endothelial walls back to the normal range due to a better control of your bp and such. Then comes the boom! However, these steroids are going to kill you. Yep suddenly KILL YOU JEFF if you do not get off of them and all your supplements and commit to a healthy life. I proceeded to laugh which really pissed him off. I said look bro I don't do over 1g a week of everything getting ready for a show..WAIT FOR IT HERE IS THE KICKER! He proceeds to then say well I don't know if that is a lot or a little!!
Ok at this point I was like I did everything you asked last year and more...you told me and the dude doing my Echo that my heart and everything looks healthy and great...now your are lecturing me on something you do no know about? So at that point we agreed to disagree...
Needless to say I realized that here I am very honest about everything I take and do and tell them it is pretty much for my bone disease so I can compete without breaking every bone in my body and wham, you are immediatley a stupid risk taker.
Anyway, I just wanted to share my vent...my cardiologist is damn good that is why I go to him, but I think maybe in the back of his mind he had to question how I managed to become healthier while doing something he views as the devil.
I go for my labs last week and my general practioner calls me back and is like dude your blood work is awesome..my cholesterol is even on the low side..total 114 count. He wants my LDL up a bit more, but overall he was very happy. My liver and kidneys all came back 38 and 49 respectively, so he was thrilled there too.
So I go see the cardiologist yesterday for my routine echocardiogram. My cardiologist walks in and was like everything looks great, you managed to even bring your slightly enlarged endothelial walls back to the normal range due to a better control of your bp and such. Then comes the boom! However, these steroids are going to kill you. Yep suddenly KILL YOU JEFF if you do not get off of them and all your supplements and commit to a healthy life. I proceeded to laugh which really pissed him off. I said look bro I don't do over 1g a week of everything getting ready for a show..WAIT FOR IT HERE IS THE KICKER! He proceeds to then say well I don't know if that is a lot or a little!!
Ok at this point I was like I did everything you asked last year and more...you told me and the dude doing my Echo that my heart and everything looks healthy and great...now your are lecturing me on something you do no know about? So at that point we agreed to disagree...
Needless to say I realized that here I am very honest about everything I take and do and tell them it is pretty much for my bone disease so I can compete without breaking every bone in my body and wham, you are immediatley a stupid risk taker.
Anyway, I just wanted to share my vent...my cardiologist is damn good that is why I go to him, but I think maybe in the back of his mind he had to question how I managed to become healthier while doing something he views as the devil.