Triglycerides dropped 200 points — what worked for you?

anders_CPH said:

Comprehensive lipid panel update relevant to the lipid panel: Marker Baseline 6 Months 12 Months Reference Total Cholesterol 235 220 180 <200 LDL…

Careful with treating an unchanged LDL-C as a failure. If ApoB and triglycerides both fell, the particle picture improved regardless of what the calculated LDL says.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

PeptideChemSF said:

Trying to work out whether my panel improved or merely rearranged itself, because two of the numbers went the wrong way.

Tracking labs for the lipid panel — here's the panel I get every 3 months and why:

• CMP: glucose, electrolytes, kidney function, liver enzymes
• Lipid panel: total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides
• A1C: 3-month glucose average
• hsCRP: inflammatory marker
• CBC: blood counts, anemia screening
• B12, folate, iron: nutritional deficiency screening
• TSH, free T4: thyroid monitoring
• Lipase: pancreatic safety check

Total cost with insurance: about $31 copay. Without insurance, request cash-pay pricing from Quest/Labcorp — usually $186.

SarahChen_PharmD said:

Careful with treating an unchanged LDL-C as a failure.

Advanced lipoprotein testing on the lipid panel — going beyond standard lipid panel:

The shift from small dense to large buoyant LDL is particularly important — it represents a fundamental change in the atherogenic profile.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.

For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.