How do you know that you have chloesterol problem?

Blood test: The only way you know if you have high cholesterol is to get a blood test to measure y our cholesterol. It's important to not just get the total cholesterol. You need the break down of good cholesterol and bad cholesterol (hdl and ldl) too.

Blood test: Normally a fasting lipid panel measuring total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL and LDL ("good and bad"). Cholesterol is made in the liver and found in animal fats. Your levels depend on your diet, gender, exercise and heredity. Hope yours is good!

By lab readings.: You likely find out about this by gstting laboratory readings on routine blood work. There is total cholesterol, HDL or good cholesterol, LDL or bad cholesterol, and triglycrides. These tell you what your cholesterol is and how much of a problem you have. If you have a familial hypercholesterolemia, you can have deposits under the skin and early atherosclerosis from 3x rise in chol. And hdl.