I will respectfully refute some of what’s being said. I do suggest you get a secondary opinion if you’re not sure I do that all the time so I could better decide what is best for me. I also want to say that statins are first line protocol and they’re cheap and so the doctor doesn’t have to think they just put you on it, I also want to say that my dad was on statins for 25 years with coronary artery disease and he did very well. I was on them for three weeks and I had reaction. I got the muscle weakness and pain so off the statins I went, took down my cholesterol after I modeled my behavior after my Ukrainian refugee, which was to eat salmon a few times a week , a very stubborn cholesterol score which happened post menopause melted like butter. However, because this last year, my LP little a score indicates that I have familial coronary artery disease. I fought to LEVQIO. And I’m grateful I did fight for it because I have zero side effects from the injection and it dropped my cholesterol like a bomb in three months. I also want to say that plaque floating around in your bloodstream is not necessarily bad as it was explained to me it actually happens after you start these medicines as some of the plaque is removed from your system, good luck and remember that people don’t people here don’t have enough information to give you anything inclusive but they can spark ideas for you to take back to your doctor. I definitely recommend getting in your doctors faces as they don’t seem to give us enough time anymore, and they also seem to have created protocols, which just treat general populations of people , and we need individual care. Good luck!