Linda Barker on Working Lunch

Good fing too:))

They are especially to be avoided in people suffering from hypothyroidism. Though as they often do not know they have such a condition they get them anyway. Then the problems start... such as severe muscle issues.

(Mind that is also partly due to the choice of which statin to prescribe

- starting with the cheapest which almost certain to be the worst choice for thyroidally challenged patients.)

And low thyroid levels are frequently a cause of high cholesterol...

I wasn't aware of that:( I read today that the NHS is to allow pharmacists to change prescriptions, issued by doctors, to give cheaper generic meds.

Looked it up, supports what I said - there is a blood cholesterol level, even though it isn't water soluble.

Or are you thinking I'm implying something other than I wrote? Coz I'm not.

And I wasn't aware of that!

Already there is a major issue with thyroxine-takers getting different effects from different 'brands'[1] each time they get their prescriptions fulfilled. Despite being only prescribed as generic[2], many people manage to persuade their pharmacies to stick to one brand - but that is at the pharmacies' discretion. And even within a brand they vary in formulation[3].

Amen!

Well it doesn't bode well. In the article I read, a young woman who is epileptic and whose fits were controlled, had her meds changed by the pharmacist and her fits increased dangerously until her meds were changed back:( There must be many better ways to save money than this:(

Boom Boom!

More like Bassil Brush......

Nearly all the many and various *prescriptions* I've had this last year *Have been* for generics, the name "Actavis" figuring significantly.

Derek

Some spokesman claimed that it is, or will be, possible for the GP to tick a box to constrain the pharmacist to a parycular brand.

:(

Thank goodness!!! I didn't see that!

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The bollox yogurt drinks are part and parcel of the bollox cosmetics industry, a lot of it advertised relentlessly on day time TV selling face putty containing collagen (extracted from executed chinese prisoners) for women to spread on their face, and "DNA" for 70 quid a

Along with the "vitamin" shampoos. ( Erm, hair is dead - right).

I.O.W. it's not a "Man" thing. :-))

Derek

That include that in the beer in your fridge ?

Or do you "rotate" it to avoid that ?

Derek

------------------------------------ "Cholesterol is not soluble in water (thus blood), which means that, after absorption, cells lining the gut pack cholesterol into a small protein/lipid sphere, known as a lipoprotein, before releasing it into the bloodstream. Thus you do not have any cholesterol floating about in the blood: it is all contained within lipoproteins. You do not have a cholesterol level."

Dr Malcolm Kendrick.

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On the other hand, you could argue on the same sort of basis about the oil content of French dressing or mayonnaise. But as a proportion of the total substance there is some that is oil and some 'not oil'.

Anyway, let us not miss the fact that absorption is not the only way we get cholesterol, not even the dominant source according to some - we manufacture it ourselves.

All up to the last sentence is entirely true. But it then fails at the end, with a pretty stunning swerve with no basis for it. The blood has these lipoproteins floating around in it - he even says so earlier. Just because they're sitting in there rather than being dissolved doesn't mean they're not there or can't be measured.

For example, you could take a given volume of blood, separate out those lipoproteins, and measure the various cholesterols in those. That gives you a blood cholesterol level. Just as it gives you a red blood cell or white blood cell count - that's a level too.

Malcolm Kendrick may be a medical doctor, and the rest of what he writes may be entirely sane (don't know, haven't read, am not discussing here) - but the deciding line in the instance you've just quoted is simply bollocks, as any scientist can tell you.

exist.