I USED TO PUT EVERYONE WITH HIGH LDL ON A STATIN
Early in my career, high LDL meant an immediate, high-dose statin. Side effects were "all in your head". I barely looked at triglycerides unless they were really high. I was blind to the benefit of normal trigs.
Now I know how ignorant and unhelpful that was. It's also why I have hope for your doctor; correcting your paradigm is hard, but it is possible.
Carey 2010 studied hospital patients whose LDL was already under 130. The ones with heart disease were more likely to have high triglycerides and low HDL. The group with the highest trigs and lowest HDL had about 10 times the odds of heart disease.
That doesn't mean nobody needs a statin. It means LDL is at best a small part of the whole story. Look at your trigs, HDL, A1c, Insulin & hs-CRP first.
Early in my career, high LDL meant an immediate, high-dose statin. Side effects were "all in your head". I barely looked at triglycerides unless they were really high. I was blind to the benefit of normal trigs.
Now I know how ignorant and unhelpful that was. It's also why I have hope for your doctor; correcting your paradigm is hard, but it is possible.
Carey 2010 studied hospital patients whose LDL was already under 130. The ones with heart disease were more likely to have high triglycerides and low HDL. The group with the highest trigs and lowest HDL had about 10 times the odds of heart disease.
That doesn't mean nobody needs a statin. It means LDL is at best a small part of the whole story. Look at your trigs, HDL, A1c, Insulin & hs-CRP first.
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