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<blockquote data-quote="NoCrbs4Me" data-source="post: 881665" data-attributes="member: 113206"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I took statins once for a month or two and I had side effects (muscle weakness). After I spent an entire weekend laying down as I didn't have the strength to be up I stopped taking them. It seemed like it was a few years before I felt close to normal again. I still wonder if the statins were a factor in me getting type 2.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Last year a doctor told me I needed to take statins to lower my cholesterol. Interestingly, it was only after I told her that I had been prescribed metformin by my previous doctor that she suddenly realized that I had had type 2 diabetes, since my blood tests showed non-diabetic blood glucose levels. I told her I wouldn't take statins, so she prescribed a non-statin cholesterol lowering drug. I had no intention of taking this new drug, but I looked it up on-line and found out that it does indeed lower cholesterol, but clinical trials had shown no reduction in cardiovascular events or reduction in risk of premature death. Eventually I saw a doctor that specializes in type 2 diabetes and he said I didn't need any drugs of any kind. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Anyway, according to conventional/current understanding of blood cholesterol levels, your numbers are excellent (supposedly better than mine):</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Total <5</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">LDL <3</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">HDL >1</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="http://www.benecol.co.uk/cholesterol/understanding-your-number" target="_blank">http://www.benecol.co.uk/cholesterol/understanding-your-number</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The official recommendations are lower for type 2 diabetics, but you don't have diabetes.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NoCrbs4Me, post: 881665, member: 113206"] [SIZE=4]I took statins once for a month or two and I had side effects (muscle weakness). After I spent an entire weekend laying down as I didn't have the strength to be up I stopped taking them. It seemed like it was a few years before I felt close to normal again. I still wonder if the statins were a factor in me getting type 2. Last year a doctor told me I needed to take statins to lower my cholesterol. Interestingly, it was only after I told her that I had been prescribed metformin by my previous doctor that she suddenly realized that I had had type 2 diabetes, since my blood tests showed non-diabetic blood glucose levels. I told her I wouldn't take statins, so she prescribed a non-statin cholesterol lowering drug. I had no intention of taking this new drug, but I looked it up on-line and found out that it does indeed lower cholesterol, but clinical trials had shown no reduction in cardiovascular events or reduction in risk of premature death. Eventually I saw a doctor that specializes in type 2 diabetes and he said I didn't need any drugs of any kind. Anyway, according to conventional/current understanding of blood cholesterol levels, your numbers are excellent (supposedly better than mine): Total <5 LDL <3 HDL >1 [URL]http://www.benecol.co.uk/cholesterol/understanding-your-number[/URL] The official recommendations are lower for type 2 diabetics, but you don't have diabetes.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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