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Message: <blockquote data-quote="andbreath" data-source="post: 2333183" data-attributes="member: 533553">Hi AllLong time lurker, first time poster here!  First of all, this forum and the people on it have been such a great help to me over the last year since my T2 diagnosis, thank you all so much.  I was diagnosed with T2 last year in hospital after suffering a heart attack.  BG at the time was 29 and HBA1c was 109.  Hospital consultant sent me home with Metformin, Atorvastatin, Ramipril, Bisoprolol and Aspirin.  Since then I have gone low carb (around 50g a day) and last HBA1c was 43, which I had done privately during lockdown.  I feel I have my head round my diabetes and my low carb diet.  I wanted to ask you lovely people your opinion about the Atorvastatin.  I decided to come off it in February as I was  feeling very foggy.  I intended to speak to my GP, but then lockdown so that didn't happen.  I have now been called in for my diabetes review, and while I am fairly confident HBA1c will be in pre diabetic levels, I know my cholesterol is higher than the GP would want.  Private tests done in June are:TOTAL CHOLESTEROL 5.23 mmol/L (0 – 5)LDL CHOLESTEROL 2.67 mmol/L (< 3)NON HDL CHOLESTEROL 3.16 mmol/L (< 4)HDL CHOLESTEROL 2.07 mmol/L (> 1.3)TOTAL CHOLESTEROL : HDL 2.53 ratio (< 4)TRIGLYCERIDES 1.08 mmol/L  (<1.7)I feel that my heart attack was caused by my undiagnosed rampant diabetes, and now that is under control (and I have lost 4 stone) I am in a much healthier state. Am I just kidding myself that I don't need the statins?  I know that there are arguments for and against, but for someone in my position who has had a previous heart attack is it necessarily keep my cholesterol lowered?  I will discus this with my GP once the blood results come back, so I am really just looking for an opinion from you knowledgeable folks.  </blockquote>

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