Anybody Take Statins to Lower Cholesterol?

I've been on Atorvastatin for over a decade, Bisoprolol too, plus a cocktail of other drugs around blood pressure and
It took a while to find balance for me, but after coronary and stroke I wasn't going to be taking any chances.
My Permanent AF has not lurched into Fast AF with rate issues for the last 3 years and my Cholesterol is 2.5.
I still have blockage in my left artuary so mild coronary risk, but if Turley my brilliant Consultant is relaxed, then so am I.

I am not conscious of side effects, but all told I'm satisfied with the balance.
 
thanks man, just looked them up and checked them yoghurt drinks I been having and they are full of them, no wonder they helped :)
My mrs took them for a while and they lowered her cholesterol by quite a bit!!
 
yeah I wasnt expecting it to get almost at a correct level after a year as by the end of the year i was struggling with my diet too. glad I never started the statins, although diabetic nurse said they will probs put me on them when older if dont shake the type 2 which trying to do with weight loss
 
why you paying if your diabetic, you qualify now for free prescriptions for life, ask your doctors for a medical exemption cert/card and they will issue you on, they should of told you about that soon as you was diagnosed. they did for me anyways
Ok thanks. I was not told anything for ages . At the time I knew I was prescribed 90 day supply so only talking about 40 quid a year, which I can cover. I'm actually off metformin now on account of me taking the decision which I told my diabetic nurse about. We are going to review my numbers in 6 months and see i I should go back on. If I do , I'll prob take this up .
 
You can read my medical history in a good few of the posts above.

The NHS have concerns about my cholesterol, sugar, blood pressure, just about everything but they’ve tested and checked me every year for about 11 years now and the only tablet they’ve put me on is the Simvastatin 40.

I still feel ok and I’m going to Burnley on Saturday and playing golf on Sunday (if Wilton is open).
 
Ok thanks. I was not told anything for ages . At the time I knew I was prescribed 90 day supply so only talking about 40 quid a year, which I can cover. I'm actually off metformin now on account of me taking the decision which I told my diabetic nurse about. We are going to review my numbers in 6 months and see i I should go back on. If I do , I'll prob take this up .
might as well just take advantage of the situation and if u ring ur doctors they will give u a form, you fill it in and they sign it off and ya get ya card sent out
 
Ok thanks. I was not told anything for ages . At the time I knew I was prescribed 90 day supply so only talking about 40 quid a year, which I can cover. I'm actually off metformin now on account of me taking the decision which I told my diabetic nurse about. We are going to review my numbers in 6 months and see i I should go back on. If I do , I'll prob take this up .
should of kept the metformin goin,when you stop the metformin you stop the free prescriptions
 
The majority of older people in the US are on statins. Supposedly they slow you down and make you more stable.
 
As an update on this I told the doctor that I didnt want to start on them just yet and we have agreed on a programme of diet control to lower my level of cholesterol and review in 6 months.

Id rather give up cheese crisps and red meat to avoid going on these tablets.
 
the values they are guided by in NHS funding generally work out the value and risk vs reward for medication regimes.

In this case the negatives of cholesterol are deemed far more expensive than its prophylactic management.

Heart surgery on once person probably costs 15 grand plus. Preventing one buys you a lot of statins. Then quality of life after heart surgery and potential care throws a whole new cost in.

Statins are a bargain.

As for side effects, the majority are side effect free. Worth reading up on the side effect risk profile online.

If you don't get on with them you can always change them or stop them.
9m people is a lot of people to be on statins. I am not against some people taking them, but it seems a big chunk of the older adult population - 1 in 3?
 
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