@KNOWITALL I tried them 6 months ago. I tried Zetia, which is not a statin. Just a few weeks later I started BP meds also. You might remember I had a lot of trouble with the BP drugs. I had to stop and start, and switch to another, and then another. During that time I also stop and started the Zetia not knowing what was going on. Then I stopped everything. So, I have never really been consistently in cholesterol lowering drugs. I am going to try them again after my next blood tests regarding my kidneys. It seemed the BP meds were harming my kidneys. Now that my BP is pretty good, I can try the Zetia again.
Doctors have wanted me on Statins for years and I refused. My cardiologist was ok with it, because my ratio was good, and I had normal BP, sugar, never smoked, don’t drink, and I exercised. But, now I’m older, the cholesterol has been higher than ever at times, and my BP is a little whacky.
I in no way am an example of what you should do regarding drugs, I have a specific reason I’m afraid of statins, specifically because of my muscle trouble I already have. I still might try them, I’m not sure. I’m afraid, especially now that I had a kidney problem with the other drug. A doctor would have to let me test one week after starting the drug, and then again in a month or I wouldn’t take it.
Previously, I checked my cholesterol about once a year, or once more if the number was very high, to make sure I could still lower it by eating better.
There were years I didn’t test it for two or three years when I was a young adult. There have been years I tested it 4 times close together, trying to test what food did what. My own experiments basically.