Thanks for the quick reply.
Pat
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What brands do you think are good for these medications? Generally Good Indian Pharma Companies
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I use the Brillo EZ from Sun Pharma. Based on my results, I am quite happy with this brand! I haven’t tried others.
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And what’s your monthly dosage?
Thanks.
I love the line “Cholesterol is made by our body. How can it be bad?”
By that logic I wonder whether the author would eat their own faeces.
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All of the cells in the body make their own cholesterol, with no relation with serum cholesterol. Not to mention that statins do, in fact, lower MACE (major adverse cardiovascular events) by a lot.
“Peak of Mt. Stupid”, this is what people have to deal with. Now we can just link my thread on the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
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I think some people get waylaid by stupidity when people with low cholesterol have heart attacks due to other factors. Remember that MACE can be triggered by many different things such as diabetes. But that doesn’t give you a free pass on cholesterol!
You need to treat all of the areas where your body is breaking, not just one.
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Folks - post your PREVENT score below @ExMilitary
The American Heart Association PREVENT Online Calculator
See background here:
CAVEAT: My total cholesterol is 113. They wouldn’t allow an entry this low, so I had to boost it to 130. I boosted my HDL by 17 to compensate and get the same value for LDL.
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Yes - my total cholesterol is 100, and I had to boost it to 130 to be able to get an answer.
My results with the artificially high number:
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@DeStrider I recalculated using a boosted HDL (by 30, to counter the artificially high total cholesterol I had to enter) and the result was:
10 year risk of CVD: 2%
10 year risk of ASCVD: 1.1%
10 year risk of Heart Failure: 1.7%
I think the current protocol of statins, bempadoic acid and ezetimibe is working for me.
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@RapAdmin Same here. Low-dose statins, Bempedoic Acid, and Ezetemibe are amazing.
I feel like we’ve subdued one of the horsemen of death. Doesn’t it feel great?
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These are all good tests to refine risk prediction for people at intermediate risk. If this person has LDL-C of 130, he or she needs to bring it the heck down, likely with drugs (though try lowering saturated fat intake and see how far that gets you), regardless of what those tests find.
Most people will not get side-effects from a statin, and most people will not get their apoB down as much with Bemp+Eze as with a satin – and this person appears to need large guns.
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A not-too-useful calculator. Besides not allowing you to enter a total cholesterol number of less than 130, it is so heavily age-related that you might as well just compare cardiovascular risk vs age.
Using the same numbers only changing the age variable. “age” from 30 to 79.
30 year old
79 year old
Age vs risk charts:
I had an LDL of 122 which is close to 130. Bempedoic Acid and Ezetemibe lowered it to 68. That’s a great start. A low-dose statin (5 mg Atorvastatin) dropped it further down to 48 for me.
To each their own.
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That’s an accumulation of cholesterol (via apoB particles) into the arterial wall in a nutshell.
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