I am now taking tablets for cholesterol my last reading was 4.9. I knew that it should be under 5, but the doctor told me now they were looking to be four, not five, and he put me on statins. It's simvastatin and my reading dropped down to about what was it three and a half I think. Yeah three and a half, it was on the blood check I had and that was about three months ago for cholesterol. But I wasn't keen on taking statins for cholesterol and I chatted at length to him, I said, “Oh I prefer not to take them” and he said, 'Its not like HRT for women where there is like you get sort of the side effects,' and he said, 'People have taken tablets for cholesterol statins, in a number of countries for a number of years, and there has never been any side effects or problems,' and he said, 'I take them myself and it helps to keep your veins working properly.' And I thought, 'Well, you know I suppose then there's no harm in me taking them.'
But I was very reluctant to take them. In fact I think I said to him, 'I don't want to take them.' But he persuaded me to, so I do take as I say statins one at night for the cholesterol which has brought it down, you know, say to about three and a half, whereas it was almost, just over five, I think 5.1 and the previous one was 4.9. So you know it has brought my cholesterol down. But it is just my sort viewpoint I don't like taking medicines unless it is very, very necessary. |
