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Seeking "professional" medical advise ;)

prpl11butterflyprpl11butterfly member
in August 2015 Moms
Obviously not, I have doctors for that!

But I am just curious if any of you have had elevated cholesterol during pregnancy and if its OK or not. **I am seeing ob today and will be talking to him about it.** I had a biometric screening done at work yesterday and my cholesterol was 282 (when it should be below 200, so not dangerously high). I Googled it but got conflicting results on if its normal to be elevated in pregnancy. In 1 article, it said it would be and should be and would top out in the 3rd and then drop about 4wks after birth but then continued to say that it can cause harm to the baby and mother. It was not high before pregnancy, I pulled my history.

Again, still talking to ob about it this afternoon, but wanted to see if any of you had experience.

*disclaimer -I actually eat really healthy and everyone I have talked to about this is shocked. It does run in my family though.
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Re: Seeking "professional" medical advise ;)

  • jesselayne8jesselayne8 member
    Cholesterol is elevated during pregnancy and breastfeeding because the baby needs the cholesterol. It's recommended that you don't even test levels until several months after birth or weaning.


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  • prpl11butterflyprpl11butterfly member
    Makes complete sense, that's is what the article I read was saying. It totally threw me when it went into how it could be harmful.

    I wouldn't have had it done aside from the fact that my health insurance company is giving $100 to anyone who has the screening and who couldn't use an extra $100!
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  • PixelPosyPixelPosy member
    My company offers you a credit to get a health screening too, however pregnancy is a reason you can waive it and still get the credit. My doctor just had to sign the waiver indicating I was pregnant. She was impressed they offered the waiver because she said my "numbers" are meaningless while pregnant for things like cholesterol because the body naturally increases it and it is not indicative of your actual health. I think my company lets you waive while nursing as well.
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  • puccagirl77puccagirl77 member

    PixelPosy said:
    My company offers you a credit to get a health screening too, however pregnancy is a reason you can waive it and still get the credit. My doctor just had to sign the waiver indicating I was pregnant.

    OMG, I wish mine offered that. I have gone through so much headache and time waste over these meaningless incentive programs. I can't get a physical because . . . duh, so I have to do this completely useless and pointless and laughable health coaching program. It is for stress management. All of my stress is coming from my insurance company! Irony!

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  • SaratiffSaratiff member
    Yeah like PP said they usually don't even test it during pregnancy and even if they did and it was concerning you can't take the medication anyways. I wouldn't worry about it and your not that elevated anyways.
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  • prpl11butterflyprpl11butterfly member
    They did not offer me a waver, but they did make the call to not bother with my waist measurement or BMI (seriously, those #s would be laughable right now ).

    @Saratiff I am not overly concerned myself. I know its not that high. The woman administering the test said "I'm not a nurse". My boss and I were discussing if after and even before I Googled it figured it would have something to do with the fact that I'm 39wks pregnant!

    But, on the plus side, the woman couldn't believe I am due next week, would have guessed a few months still and my blood pressure is phenomenal considering!
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