thanks for your concern. I have always had high cholesterol. I tried lipitor 25 years ago and it made me really sick. I cant take a statin. So I thought a 230-240 total cholesterol was not bad. I was not treating it. Then I find out I had all this blockage. I found that out because the steroids from PMR made my cholesterol go up to 300. So they sent me to a cardiologist who discovered the blockage. I had all this work done at Mayo clinic. Mayo put me on Repatha. A once a month injection. No side effects so far. My total cholesterol is 120 and LDL is 55. My 2 year scan recently was clean. GBM is a terminal cancer. She is on hospice. They gave her 6 months almost 4 years ago.