Doc says I'm "high" on triglycerides

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Four days before I didn’t know I had any triglycerides and now I was fearful I had so many they were going to kill me.



I learned this from the nurse tech that called to inform me of the results of my blood work.



“Your sugars are normal, cholesterol’s fine, but your triglycerides are high. They’re 159.”



What she couldn’t tell from my blood work was that I’m a novice