PS: someone mentioned taking lipitor, I was using that med from my cardiologist and I was latter informed to stop taking it because it can cause neuromuscular degeneration. So now I am on a new med. call pravastatin also called pravachol,
According to my Doc, all statins can cause meuromuscular degeneration. Lipitor, as one of the "super statins" has been around longer than many of the others, and has more postFDA data. It also is less expensive than most.
I couldnt get my bad HDL down past 133 with 3 months diet/exercise, and I was already eating wisely, including oatmeal or cheerios daily! I can't exercise much because of a pain syndrome.
Doc first put me on Lipitor. Oooh the gas! My spousal unit had to wear a gas mask to bed! I went off of it. Saw doc a year later and my cholesterol was still high. So put me on Crestor and suggested GasX. The GasX worked, and so did the Crestor ... down to a total 168! I hadn't been that low in a couple of decades!
After 8 months I moved over to Lipitor because of all the FDA hoopala over Crestor. So far, so good. And so is the GasX.
Oh, and if you do go to drugs, take the at night. That is when the body produces cholesterol and when the pharmacist said is the best time to take it.