I think it depends on what your cholesterol numbers are.

I have seen familial patients with total cholesterol approaching 800.
Using a statin in high dose only reduced one woman to around 400.

If your are under 300, you may not need anything.

Keeping your triglycerides down with fish oil would be a big help.
This reduces viscosity of the blood.

Make sure your thyroid is in good shape...hypo raises cholesterol.

Mine was 277, HDL's around 65, Tri's at 123. The LDL was the big one around like 179. I have a very good diet and in very good shape. Mother had same issue, although her diet is not so great. My hyopthyroid issues are slight according to bloodwork. 3cm benign nodule in the thyroid.

This link gives the ranges for familial genetic hypercholesteremia.

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/121298-overview

You are not eligible for that diagnosis with your untreated numbers.

The drug companies have worked tirelessly to get the definition retooled to convince doctors to give statins to just about everyone.

The new drug agents are only indicated for patients with really high numbers. I, too, have no clue as to their safety either.

I saw a friend yesterday who has a long history of neuropathy and for many years her doctors called it ideopathic but recent years she came to the realization it's from 30 yrs of taking statins. We chatted yesterday and she mentioned she's in a class action lawsuit against lipitor.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encycloped...ugs-29538.html

I was shocked when a family member had recently told me she has been on statins and COQ10 has never been mentioned/prescribed/suggested.

This is 2015?

I was furious, in truth. There is no excuse for this anymore.

She is now reading up to see if she needs COQ10, which I support and admire. There's no reason she should take my word for it. I think she had a hard time with the fact that her doctor is not protecting her from potential statin harm. I had told her, point blank, there is no good reason for any doctor to not let patients know they need COQ10 if they are taking statins.

She wondered why her muscles ache so badly. She also now has a form of RLS, which may or may not be related. I gave her some topical magnesium chloride for her RLS.

I hope she see will decide to protect herself.

Warmly,
DejaVu

DejaVu, I have not gone to a traditional MD since 1991 and for 10 yrs NEVER getting help with what I believed was a sluggish thyroid. In 2002 my D.O. who worked on my back for years, called in for thyroid on the phone, no labs and that's when it all changed in my mind about the conventional world of medicine. 10 years of depression lifted in 4 days, it was thyroid all those years. But the MD wrote anti depression meds for 10 yrs.

I have no clue if a conventional MD ever would discuss COQ10, they know best to pull out the script pad and write away. I've started after the 2002 episode to seek out integrative MD's and found a whole new world. I could never go back as some friends try to get me to go to HMO's with my medicare and there is no way. Yes, I could save a little money but I would not get support that I now know.

It's pretty sad as I see it. Thinking about a friend who tells me about the 30 yrs of statins and all the neuropathy she deals with...she's now in a Lipitor class action suit. Her MD kept her on lipitor all those years and knew about all the neuropathy^^#$##

So, this is where I come from. The last traditional MD I saw was the ortho hip MD and I'm dealing with all that. So it's health groups I've been a member of and still am and friends and all the research I do on my own. C

I think MDs will rarely suggest CoQ10 supplementation and even less so - totally stopping statins..

My brothers & parents are on statins of some sort.. and no CoQ10 mentioned that I know of.. and their cholesterol # was hardly above 200