Hi,
Reading with interest as I posted a question about statins ages ago and got some good feed back about making sure the proper LDL HDL tests were done before I started which they hadn't.
Long story short I ended up with Sepsis so had bigger fish to fry but... on reading between the lines there are medicine's for cholesterol and medicines for diabetes. If your cholesterol is high then surely you are at high risk of dying (let's not beat around the Bush with CVD's etc.,) and that needs to be tackled asap so as to get you to a healthier place and if it pushes your sugars up well for a while Dr can prescribe you something to help push them down, as it's all a balancing act.
However if you want to try and keep your cholesterol down you can eat better, and exercise some, I know it doesn't work for everyone but it does help. There are things lifestyle choices that we can make to help, Drs can also help with drugs which have their own side affects (metformin anybody...).
When I had sepsis, my diabetes sugars went thru the roof, blocking the antibiotics trying to keep me alive and basically it was the 5th lot of antibiotics that finally started to bring me back.. now that the Drs had got past the diabetes preventing treatment, we agreed to basically blast me with a high dose of meds to push my sugars right down to give me a chance to recover from the sepsis as that had to be the focus for my treatment or I could end up loss g some limbs, the diabetes was a noise in the background interfering....
So sepsis over, next focus sugars... now quite good and next cholesterol... I'm doing one thing at a time... walking, as I'm not a gym bunny, eating vegetables...(i' d rather some pies :-( ) and I've spoken with my doctor if my sugars stay as they are then reduce my diabetes drugs but if my cholesterol rises next time then I will go on statins as there is only so much I can do, but I will keep reacting and adapting as I need to, if I can't tolerate statins then ill have to do something else, what I've no idea but, there are side effects to everything, even staying in the sun...
What I'm saying is that we are all different, which is why we sometimes get side effects, sometimes not, but if you are in a danger zone, do the right thing help yourself sort whatever it is, weigh things up for yourself and you know the best place to air things (yes with your medical team) but it's actually here... to give you some support.
The above is just my opinion from my somewhat dire experience.
Last thing I'll say is be careful next time you go out for a walk because you could be stung by a bee and sometimes that's enough to kill you... swings and roundabouts, use your own measuring scales and do what works for you.
Sorry if some of the above does t make sense as felt I had to reply and doing it from my mobile...