DJT, when you say you say your pipes are clear (yahoo!) what test is that?
Wish I could remember, there were four and they cost the holiday insurance US$16,000.
After getting a false (inaccurate) troponin test from an M.D. in Maui, Hawaii, I was admitted to what I call A&E at
Maui Memorial where they did another three troponin tests, 2 using a machine and one where they did the lab work, all three were negative and in theory that should have been it. They kept me in for further tests (can't say they weren't thorough, but then they knew I was insured, I'll know better if there's a next time).
I had an ECG (check heart's rhythm and electrical activity - normal), a heart echo cardiogram (create pictures of
heart's chambers, valves, walls and aorta, arteries, veins attached to
heart - normal), an MRI scan (shows heart muscle, valves, chambers and how well blood flows through heart and major vessels. normal) and a nuclear stress test (shows areas of low blood flow through the heart and heart muscle - normal). My use of the word normal is based on what the relevant operators were telling me at the time and what a UK cardiologist advised my GP back in the UK.
My treatment (?) at this hospital stopped when I said that my insurance didn't cover the triple bypass they were suggesting, I was released within 2 hours. The 38 page report was sent to my GP back home in the UK. She had been able to discuss the report with a local cardiologist whose opinion was that I didn't need surgery, especially after going through the report of the test done which I have mentioned above. As much as I'm annoyed that I had tests that were totally unnecessary, that they suggested surgery I didn't need (several ongoing law suits in the U.S.), at least I know my ticker and tubes are OK for a 60 year old (I'm 64 LOL).
Going by the math, you will have longer life with statins.
Is that the math that says if you give 100 people a statin, 2 will die from a CVE as opposed to 3 in 100 people not taking statin. It's a clever way of using statistics and I did read the Great Cholesterol Con. In the end I read so much about cholesterol and statins, my head hurt. My final decision to stop statins after 17 years was because my TC dropped to 3 after going low carb and I was fed up with having to tolerate muscle pain, brain fog and poor sleep.