High Cholesterol Symptoms

High Cholesterol: Introduction

High cholesterol or hypercholesterolemia is the presence of high levels of cholesterol in your blood. You have high cholesterol when there are abnormal levels of lipoproteins in your blood.

What are the High Cholesterol Symptoms?

Unlike in other disease where you may have indications, there are no definite high cholesterol signs or symptoms as these cannot be clearly noticed or felt.

Symptoms and signs for high cholesterol may surface in the form of health problems that develop as your cholesterol levels remain high for an extended period of time.

Some of the symptoms for high cholesterol:

• You may experience persistent dizziness that can cause you a range of discomfort. You may feel light-headed and this can linger on for some time.
• You may get pain that often fails an explanation. You may have a feeling of discomfort in your arms and shoulders. The same feeling can occur for your shoulders or back.
• Moreover, you may have cold sweats or your skin can appear clammy in appearance.
• You may occasionally experience shortness of breath.
• You may have chest pains that can often lead to cause nausea with or without vomiting.
• Or you may have chest pain with feeling of pain or tightness in the chest or your right arm.
• In addition you may faint, have feeling of confusion or become lethargic.

Moreover, you can face heart problems in the form of stroke. When arterial plaque begins to break off, travel in your bloodstream it can cause a stroke. This may result in reduced heart function (in case of damage to heart muscle).

It is not easy to conclude whether you have symptoms of high cholesterol based on the various health experiences stated above.

Remember, these are health changes that different levels of cholesterol can cause and should not be taken as definite high cholesterol symptoms.

You can only come to know about your body’s level of high cholesterol when you are subjected to a lipid panel test, a type of blood test. This test reveals the levels of different types of cholesterol existing in your bloodstream.

The lipid panel test will also, more importantly, reveal the good versus bad cholesterol ratio. This can give you a fair idea of the risk you are at of getting a heart problem.