It's amazing how they try and hand out statins to anyone and everyone, but try and get some test strips out of them and you'd think you'd asked for the crown jewels!
My cholesterol was up slightly at my last HbA1c (probably due to the large amount of weight I'd lost very rapidly) and the first thing the doc said was "I'd like to give you statins". I said I'd rather wait 6 months and see what my cholesterol is then (by which time my blood should have stabilised) and she was fine with that.
Out of interest, I've just used the risk calculator linked above and even with my last cholesterol reading my current risk is only 8.4% so I will resist all attempts to give me statins.
On the subject of the risk calculator, is the weighting for diabetes simply because we've got it or because they expect your blood sugar to be higher than a person without? The reason I ask is that my diet is so tightly controlled that my blood is never out of the non-diabetic range. My understanding was the risks from diabetes are pretty much mitigated if your blood sugar is normal, but I thought I'd ask if anyone knew for certain