Blood donation is a solution to lower bad cholesterol, let's donate 🩸!

Blood donation is beneficial for the body to stay healthy and can reduce the influence of bad cholesterol, besides that the donated blood can also benefit other people in need. Let's donate blood!

For several weeks I often feel pain in the neck and shoulders, this pain makes me not concentrate when I'm working, moreover I do work in front of the computer every day for several hours.

Finally, a lot of my work piled up and was not completed on time, of course I don't want things like this to continue because I don't want to neglect every task that is my responsibility.

Then on Monday, November 4, 2024 I tried to go to the doctor and consult, I explained to the doctor what history of illness I had suffered, after consulting the doctor advised me to do a blood test, then I agreed.

After waiting for a while the results of the blood test in the laboratory came out, it was true as I suspected that I was attacked by bad cholesterol, the results showed that my cholesterol was at 230mg / dL from the normal number below 200mg / dL.

Blood test results from the laboratory.

The doctor then prescribed me several medications, such as pain medication, cholesterol-lowering medication, and other medications. I also asked the doctor what was the best way to lower my cholesterol quickly.

Then the doctor said that reducing oily and coconut milk foods, doing more exercise, and if you dare to do blood donation.

I acknowledged all of what the doctor said because all this time I have not maintained a healthy diet and almost never do sports activities, of course this will have a detrimental impact on my own body.

Cholesterol is not a disease that can be underestimated, if cholesterol rises and is followed by an increase in blood pressure, the chances of stroke are even greater. Honestly, I am very worried about this disease because it can cause paralysis of all limbs.

Therefore, on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, I went to the Blood Transfusion Unit Office of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) of Lhokseumawe City, I registered to become one of the volunteers who donated blood.

Arriving there I saw that the atmosphere was very quiet, I was also very sure that many people were not aware of the importance of donating blood, just like me.

After donating blood, I felt relieved, hopefully my body will be healthier and my blood can be useful for other people.

Blood donation is very important especially for men, by donating blood, the body will produce new blood which can make the body healthier. Women have a menstrual cycle every month, so their bodies excrete dirty blood and then produce new blood. That's the information I got from interviewing the officers there.

When the officer wanted to puncture my vein on my right arm with a large needle, of course I felt scared, to get rid of the fear I looked up at the ceiling so that I didn't care what the officer was doing.

After a few minutes of walking the officers were surprised to see that my blood was not full in the bag, they thought that my blood was very thick and very sticky so that it made the process of blood discharge slow. Then they pulled the needle out of my right hand and transferred it to my left hand. I was really quite miserable.

First hand blood clogged	then transferred to the left hand

Luckily after the officer pierced the needle on the left arm the blood coming out was no longer obstructed, finally the blood bag was full with an amount of 350ML. I then felt relieved. After the blood donation was over I got a little parcel containing green bean porridge drink, snacks, and a bottle of water.

Thus this article, hopefully useful and inspiring all who read it. Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to comment.