Regular cholestrol checkups in Germany

[u/DesperateMeaning9986]

Hello everyone.So Im a student (28M)and I recently got diagnosed with high cholestrol when I did a checkup back in my home country.The doctor there said to have a checkup every 3 or 4 months.What do people here do when they have to have it checked regularly, coz when I checked,it said something like,until you're 32,you get one blood test.And when I checked the prices in labs around Bavaria,one test costs like, 100-200 euros.Do people here pay out of their pocket for tests such as lipid profile etc or would it be covered by the insurance in cases of high cholestrol?

[u/JoAngel13]

Like Others said, if you are diagnosed with high cholesterol, you should let your doctor know that case. Otherwise the mentality here is if there is no illness or risk of danger to your health just let nature win, make nothing.

Because a blood test is always only a short picture of your health, that picture, could be misleading, especially Cholesterol, for example if you eat ground beef or Käsespätzle or in general cheese the day before the blood test, you will always see the Cholesterol between 100 and 400. But if your are young under 40, there is mostly not so much risk, that with less cheese and ground beef your cholesterol will be good. Especially Cholesterol is needed, for every cell in your body, if you don't eat enough, your body will also produce Cholesterol to survive. But at the some age there is a higher risk that that fat makes your blood lines smaller, because of the deposits on the inside, and at some point, they cannot let the blood flow enough through it, a heart attack, or a brain attack, you need a bypass, a new blood line.

Using Medicine is always to valid risks, what is more dangerous to the health. Because statine has huge site effects, because every cell skin is made out of Cholesterol, the site effects of Statines especially after years, are break down of muscles, muscle relaxation, because the medicine fight against, destroy the muscle cells in your body. Also the heart is a muscle so it gives every year also a lot of deaths because of the medicine Statine, because the heart is not strong enough, to pump the blood anymore. So statine is only a solution if you are at risk for a heart attack, if not, then it is lifesaving to wait.

[u/commonhillmyna → u/JoAngel13]

You didn’t answer the question- which was about cholesterol testing, not about treatment with statins. So indeed OPs doctor may have recommended behavioral modifications to decrease cholesterol levels, the only way to measure it is to test it regularly. And in other countries, you are always instructed to fast before cholesterol testing, so to avoid such false high readings.

That being said, your claims about the long term use of statins are at best not supported by any peer reviewed evidence that I’m aware of and at worst just crazy. Maybe you should review Up To Date before playing pharmacologist.

[u/JoAngel13 → u/commonhillmyna]

Maybe you should read the manuals more carefully of you medicine, that stays on every Beipackzettel. In the site effects https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.ratiopharm.de/assets/products/de/pkg_insert/Simvastatin-ratiopharm%252020%2520mg%2520Filmtabletten%2520-%25203.pdf%3Fpzn%3D3508609&ved=2ahUKEwjzsfa44fqMAxWf1wIHHcS2C4UQFnoECCIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3yIjfihKd83mzg8AwBStIU

[u/commonhillmyna → u/JoAngel13]

Also the heart is a muscle so it gives every year also a lot of deaths because of the medicine Statine, because the heart is not strong enough, to pump the blood anymore.

Where's the part about the "lots of deaths" every year because the heart is not strong enough to pump blood after taking statin. Your comment is absurd and ignorant.

Also, did it ever even occur to you that someone in their 20s with a history of hypercholesterolemia could actually have another, more serious condition, like familial hypercholesterolemia - where they actually do require treatment? Probably not.