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Statin discontinued due to neuropathy. What are some alternatives?
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@nukhan my doctor wanted me to take a statin to lower my cholesterol but I decided to work on my diet and exercise more to see if I could lower the bad and raise the good cholesterol. My numbers were a little better the last time we checked but my next appointment in March I'm hoping they are still OK. Here's a site that gives a few tips...
How to Lower Cholesterol with Diet -- https://medlineplus.gov/howtolowercholesterolwithdiet.html
On the bright side of taking statins....Statins Have Unexpected Effect on Pool of Powerful Brain Cells
-- https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/2051/statins-have-unexpected-effect-on-pool-of-powerful-brain-cells.aspx
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At age 72, I had slipped into less healthy vegan food options during covid and had a hypertensive crisis four weeks ago. I immediately resumed my whole food plant based (wfpb) diet/ life style.
A week later my doc prescribed 10mg rosuvastatin. I wish I had asked for baseline lipid panel before I started the statin because I am sure that being wfpb for 2 weeks had a profound effect.
So after the first week on the statin, I finally got the tests. Of course they were wonderful. Total cholesterol was down 86 points and LDL was down 74 points. But, how do I understand this? Was it my diet which can have a profound impact even after only 2 weeks, or the statin? I don't want to take any medication if I can manage without.