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Old 04-17-2012, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by atltom View Post
About 4 months ago my cardiologist put me on 50 mg of pravastatin because he felt my cholesterol was borderline.
Only borderline? Please look into controlled-release niacin, and ask your doctor about giving it a trial. You can google it and/or search NT for cholesterol statin niacin.

It controls my wife's cholesterol as well as the statin they had her on. Beware of prescription Niaspan; controlled/slow-release niacin (same thing) can be gotten OTC for 1/10 the cost.

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