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Being symptomless places the condition in a no man\u2019s land: people with elevated cholesterol are assessed as medically sick but their bodies signal wellness. In this article I refer to this ambiguous grey area, betwixt and between being healthy and being sick, as liminal space . The aim of this article is to show how people manage the symptomless condition of elevated cholesterol in liminal space. Particular attention is paid to everyday medical reasoning in that space. Based on interviews with people with elevated cholesterol, I show that medical regimens are \u2018up against\u2019 \u2014 challenged by \u2014 a variety of competing conditions in everyday life, illustrating ambiguity. Facing this dilemma between medicine and everyday life, they ongoingly need to navigate \u2014 edit, modify, adjust \u2014 medical regimens against everyday conditions. This navigating work can be seen as ritualized strategies to sort ambiguity. People with elevated cholesterol do not so much act \u2018against medical regimens\u2019 as they simultaneously need to take account of other matters they are up against in trying to stay healthy. Medical regimens are sometimes central, sometimes peripheral. Adapting medical regimens to the situation at hand, people continuously comply with medical regimens, producing and reproducing medical regimens in moral contexts of everyday life.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/1363459310364160","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,12,22]],"date-time":"2010-12-22T20:41:33Z","timestamp":1293050493000},"page":"604-619","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["\u2018I take a small amount of the real product\u2019: Elevated cholesterol and everyday medical reasoning in liminal space"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Lina Klara","family":"Hoel Felde","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Southern Denmark, Denmark,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,12,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"atypb1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0277-9536(95)00366-5"},{"key":"atypb2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1515\/text.1.1998.18.2.191"},{"key":"atypb3","first-page":"277","volume":"44","author":"Backett, K.","year":"1994","journal-title":"British Journal of General Practice"},{"key":"atypb4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0277-9536(85)90308-9"},{"issue":"1","key":"atypb5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"98","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1467-9566.2006.00484.x","volume":"28","author":"Coxhead, L.","year":"2006","journal-title":"Sociology of Health & Illness"},{"key":"atypb6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0277-9536(92)90206-6"},{"issue":"496","key":"atypb7","first-page":"851","volume":"53","author":"Durack-Bown, I.","year":"2003","journal-title":"British Journal of General Practice"},{"key":"atypb8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1467-9566.2004.00392.x"},{"key":"atypb9","volume-title":"Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison","author":"Foucault, M.","year":"1977"},{"key":"atypb10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1370\/afm.529"},{"key":"atypb11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0890-4065(00)08021-X"},{"key":"atypb12","volume-title":"Studies in ethnomethodology","author":"Garfinkel, H.","year":"1967"},{"key":"atypb13","volume-title":"Interaction ritual: Essays in face-to-face behaviour","author":"Goffman, E.","year":"1967"},{"key":"atypb14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1370\/afm.534"},{"key":"atypb15","volume-title":"The new language of qualitative method","author":"Gubrium, J.F.","year":"1997"},{"key":"atypb16","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Gubrium, J.F. and Holstein, J.A. 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