I asked Jack Newman MD about Zocor. He says it's "fine." Kathleen At 11:00 PM 12/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I saw a mom today who normally has a very high cholesterol level. >Prepregnancy she was on medication to lower it, but has been off of the drug >for a year.(in order to get pregnantand during pregnancy) New tests now >show that her HDL level was 325 - way too high LDL levels are way over >200(forgot to write that down). Of course, the Drs. only solution is to stop >breastfeeding by the time the baby is 3 months and go on heavy drug therapy >to lower her cholesterol levels. He is reccomending Zocor which Hale lists >as an L3. Most dietary things to lower cholesterol won't bring it down low >enough and fast enough? Am curious if anyone has any tricks for lowering >cholesterol that I may not have thought of and if anyone has had experience >with Zocor? Mom has had a hard time nursing and is just beginning to see >the light at the end of the tunnel. She doesn't really want to quit, but I'm >hard pressed to argue with a Dr. who tells her the baby needs adequeate >nutrition as well as a living mother, and out right scares her by saying >"What's the point of breastfeeding if it kills you! A baby needs hermother!" >What would you do??? Any and all ideas welcome. >Thanks for the input! >Peg Merrill, IBCLC > > *********************************************** > >To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail >To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) >To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet >All commands go to [log in to unmask] > >The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned >LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) >mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: >http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html