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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. My eating is really healthy, tons of veggies, beans, fish once a week, chicken once a week, steel cut oatmeal, quinoa, lots of nuts. No processed foods except for tortilla chips and popocorn which I eat a handful of times a week, but no sweets. [/quote]

there are non-statin medications you can try.
But if all your other labs are good, high cholesterol is not necessarily a huge concern.
Some of it is just genetics.
I've always had high cholesterol; but not until my A1C reached diabetes levels were doctors concerned and prescribed lipitor. It made me lightheaded and I didn't want to stay on a statin long term. After I lost a little weight and my A1C came down, they were not concerned about the heart risks and were fine discontinuing the cholesterol medication. My cholesterol went right back up, of course, despite continuing healthier eating and exercise. It's the triglycerides and other stuff that are more important than the cholesterol level alone.[/quote]

I wouldn't assume that high cholesterol doesn't matter just because nothing has happened yet. Years of high cholesterol will leave their mark on your arteries, and you won't be able to turn back the clock on that. That said, I would get some more detailed testing, which unfortunately are not standard: get your ApoB (more useful number than cholesterol), LP(a) (important solely genetic type of cholesterol), and get a calcium scan (to see if you already have plaque build-up). Once you know all that, you're better positioned to make the decision about a statin. Also, there are a number of different statins so you can try different ones if you experience side effects. Some people do and some people don't.[/quote]

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