I recently stopped my statin drugs as I was experiencing bad muscle pains. My GP actually said that "statins don't really help women anyway". Hello, why has he then prescribed this and wasted all my money?
But when I got my recent blood labs back since stopping the statin 6 weeks ago, my total cholesterol jumped from 4.6 to 7.6. I started to panic and although I do believe that saturated fats and cholesterol are not the cause for heart disease, I still in the back of my mind am worried as I don't want to find out the "kick the bucket" way that perhaps, we were all wrong about it.
My HDL is 1.3, Trigs 1.2, LDL 5.7 and overal ratio 5.8. According to the good doctor, this is all dangerous.
Has anybody been able to have their bloods checked for pattern A or pattern B LDL? I have asked my endocrinologist for a pathology request to split the LDL into low dense or high boyant. She gave me a pathology request that asked for that split, but when I got my results back, all it showed was the ration of HDL to LDL. When I phoned the lab (both S&N and QML) to discuss, they kept insisting that this was what I requested (really?). Upon further explaining to them the difference, they finally said, that they didn't really know about this and that I would have to find a research lab that might test for this. I then phoned Royal Brisbane pathology and spoke to the lab technicians there, but they also didn't know what I requested. I even gave them the name of the test "polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis" and they still couldn't do anything with that information.
I am in Brisbane, btw.
