Thanks, Mrs D, there's a lot to wade through here, and I'm going to need to print and read, which means buying computer paper today on my errand-run.

What I'm wondering is this: Given what you know about cholesterol and given what we know about the importance of good mitochondrial function to recover from neuropathy (I'm pretty sure my mitoochondria were poisoned, and my carnitine is low in the absence of supplements), how would you feel with a cholesterol of 300, the LDL portion being about 200 of it, the HDL about 100.

These are rounded numbers. So far my doctors have all believed that my cholesterol of 225 was not a risk, since the HDL was always high; now I'm over some sort of tipping point for them.

Would you face off on this and NOT get treatment if it were yourself?

Push for simvastatin?

Any thoughts?