It is easy to have high cholesterol and never know it. In fact, most of the sumptoms are difficult for the person having high cholesterol to notice. Most of the time, the only symptom of high cholesterol is an abmormal blood test. If a patient has high blood pressure, then high cholesterlo can do a lot of damage.
However, symptoms of high cholesterol can be found in patients with excessively high levels of cholesterol. Such symptoms of severely high cholesterol might be pain caused by excessive fat deposits in the joints and tendons (this condition is called xanthomas), as well as liver and spleen enlargement.
Liver or spleen enlargement can usually be determined by a physician simply touching the areas; a liver or spleen enlargement is fairly easy to detect. In addition, another symptom of severely high cholesterol could be severe abdominal pain caused by pancreatitis.
As previously stated, elevated cholesterol levels are generally not very symptom indicative, but usually lead to more serious conditions. Other serious, and potentially fatal, conditions associated with high cholesterol are heart disease, hypertension or peripheral vascular disease.
Coronary arterial blockages caused by high cholesterol can lead to decreased oxygen supply to the heart (ischaemia) and can ultimately lead to coronary failure or a heart attack.
Although it is by no means common, there are some very specific lipid disorders form which people suffer that give the appearanc of hypertension. Take, for example, familial hypercholesterolemia. It can show very distinct high blood pressure symptoms. The most common of these is the enormous build up of peculiar and large deposits of cholesterol. These appear in the eyelids, as well as in all of the tissue surrounding the eyes.
The cholesterol deposits may also cause small lumps or boil type appearances in the hands and feet; the abnormal cholesterol deposits may also cause a yellowish, streaking discoloration of the hands, legs and feet.
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