LongT, my PCP said that I actually have too low a "good" cholesterol level now. I wasn't put on any statin or other medication for the levels I reached, came very close. When I developed the Stage 3B kidney failure it stopped him from prescribing anything for cholesterol, and it wasn't exceptionally high, thankfully. The strict nutrition plan I was put on and the amount of exercise I began lowered everything to my current levels.

My M-I-L was put on a statin a few years back, she did not handle it well at all and after talking with her doctor she was taken off of the statin and uses nutrition to keep things under control. My wife is in the same class so it may well be genetic.

I am grateful for the improvement with careful nutrition and cycling/exercise. I have a family history of heart disease, my father and grandfather passed away young from heart attacks, my grandmother had a stroke young, too. I will not get back in the same boat with obesity (hit 278lbs), poor nutrition and sloth, the kidney disease is scary stuff, too.

Bill