Of course what you propose to do for yourself has a great chance of doing good by you, and I do commend you to resisting any medications that progressive and useful alternations of lifestyle might address. Note that literally scores of millions of people take statins at various doses, and not all statins are alike or are meant to affect the patient in quite the same way, so right there you'll understand that there are statins, and then there are statins. If they presented a grave risk to many people, they wouldn't still be so widely prescribed. I have no detectable symptoms of statins use, and I went from two years on atorvastatin at 20mg PO to 40 mg when my cardiologist was concerned of heart ischemia due to my increased AF starting two years ago. He hasn't seen fit to reduce it again, but I have felt no difference. A woman I know of takes 100mg PO because she's literally a walking cholesterol time-bomb with exceedingly high numbers...scary numbers. She and her husband are quite active, and I have heard no complaints. So, one's incurred liability to any drug are not going to be known until the prescribed dose is taken. Please don't do more than to tinker with your diet, but substantially, so that you see if you can improve your numbers, also substantially. If it turns out that your best efforts are not panning out, I urge you to at least try statins for six full months to see if/how you tolerate them, and maybe they will help with the numbers that the diet doesn't/can't.