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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guzzler" data-source="post: 1730845" data-attributes="member: 408573">Hello and welcome to the forum.  I'm tagging [USER=25759]@daisy1[/USER]  for the info pack for you.  Lots of invaluable info in there, be sure to read through it.If you were to hit the search button having put in the words statin and cholesterol then you would get thousands of hits!  It can be a contentious issue at times.  I suggest you do some reading on the subject as you will have to make your mind up about the risks v benefits where statin use is concerned but my own personal opinion means I refuse to take a statin.Do you have the full breakdown of your cholesterol count?  Total cholesterol is a pretty useless number on its own.  If you have online access to your test results you can post them here and some members can tell you if they are good, bad or ugly.   N.B.  While you are still actively losing weight (well done by the way) this can skew your lipid values for a while so I agree that you should give it time before you make any decisions.Hope this helps.Have a wander around the forum and ask as many questions as you like.</blockquote>

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