Heart disease in my family and I’ve always battled high cholesterol numbers. My dad had heart bypass surgery at my age. His mom died in her early 50’s from a heart attack. My other side of the family many close relatives died in their 30’s amd 40’s from heart attacks.
I’ve had colon polyps since my early 30’s and my maternal grandfather had colon cancer. I bleed often when I eat lots of raw vegetables and if I had cancer I would ignore that initial symptom probably for too long. I don’t really worry about colon cancer, but it is a serious and real health concern.
I’m not overly worried about this either, but I’ll mention it. Low pressure glaucoma in my family and I have some sort of thing in my eye that possibly is related to higher incidence of glaucoma. So far so good, but I’m only in my mid 40’s. The first time I ever had my eyes dilated and checked was in my early 30’s, because I could tell my far sight was changing. Then not again for 6 or 7 years. Now that I am over 40 I go every 12–18 months.
Recently, my blood pressure has been borderline high a few times I have done readings and I blame it on my stress level the last year. I really believe it is shortening my life and with my risk of heart disease it’s really not a good thing. I keep trying to tell myself I can decide not to be stressed, but I am not doing very well controlling it.
The health concern that troubles me most are some chronic GYN problems. I’m so tired of it. I personally believe they increase my chance of cancer, but there is no medical research or science to prove it.