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What are your experiences with Leqvio?

Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Oct 27 8:52pm | Replies (7)
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Leqvio sounds like a wonderful solution for you, @lloydrjphd .

If I understand correctly, it is likely this every six month injection will be all you since your LDL is almost to goal now. If you do end up taking rosuvastatin (since it does more than reduce LDL) it may be worth having a conversation with your prescribing doctor about cutting the frequency to 2 or 3 times a week. My understanding is it stays in the body longer than other statins, 3 or 4 days. This way you get the benefits of the drug with a little bit in your system all the time and reducing potential for side effects.

I have my shot scheduled this week and am really looking forward to how it goes. My first four were effective and Repatha was not.

I am interested to hear how your process goes. Do you need to get insurance approval for Leqvio? Will you come back and provide updates?

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lloydrjphd | @lloydrjphd | Oct 27 9:34am

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Long story! Cardiologist #1 and I agreed with 10mg rosuvastatin plus Leqvio was best path forward. Insurance denied. I appealed (I spent career in drug development) and insurance was then approved. Cardiologist #1 left practice and referred me to cardio #2 to administer Leqvio. Cardio #2 would not administer and told me I should try MAX doses of statin (try others), if not OK, add Zetia, …. If all else failed, he would consider Leqvio. I asked Cardio #2 about his experiences with Leqvio - he had no experiences. Also, Cardio #2 was against “health technology” such as Apple Watch and health app, etc. So, I dropped cardio #2 and have an appointment with Cardio #3 in Jan 2026 (Cardio #3 and #1 were in the same practice - cardio #2 was in a different location). Cardio #2 really did NOT want to hear or listen to what I had to say - he had his approach and was sticking to it.

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