It was fasting. I can fast with biblical figures at this point. 'You use locust and honey? Amateurs.."

I would imagine that it is a little bit harder to keep the grains and sugars low for vegans, but your triglycerides are likely the telling factor. Carbohydrate-rich diets can raise your trigs - even if you are eating whole grains, which are not probably as healthy as we are led to believe - especially in for certain groups of people. And there are a small population of people than can eat whatever the heck they want, never have any negative medical issues, and never gain any weight. Life is funny that way and hardly seems fair. If you are amenable to making some small dietary tweaks, I think you may see a lowering of your trigs and your cholesterol numbers as well. Maybe ask your doc for a 3 month extension, make some tweaks and then repeat your cholesterol/trigs test to see what happens.

If Janie sees this thread, hopefully she can chime in with her personal experience. I know that she was using a blood glucose monitor to see how different foods/meal types were impacting her glucose levels. I think that it was very helpful when she was crafting her diet.

My husband and I watched a great documentary on the sugar industry just yesterday (this is what we do for fun!). Turns out they funded much of the research on the so-called deleterious effects of dietary fat to draw attention away from the toxicity of sugar when that first becamee publicized by independent researchers in the 1970's. (Yes, these researchers call sugar "toxic," and liken the suppression of data showing this to that of tobacco in the 1960's.)

The hype about cholesterol, as stated, also prompted drug corporations to create a huge market for statins, which, as many of us know here, can be neurotoxic.

We just have to keep reading, and also be aware of research funding (the pro-sugar data in the '70's were the work of the head of Harvard's Medical school, who was on the take big time from the sugar industry, and, by the way, he also worked for the tobacco industry)!

I didn't read through all the posts so this might be already discussed.
Your cholesterol is really not that high.

An option if your doctor is open to it:

Cholestyramine is much safer than a statin, it just tastes gross. It is a cholesterol lowering powder drink that binds to the bile and removes some cholesterol. It is inconvenient and must be mixed with a lot of water. It phased out when little statin pills came along.

Also, do you eat a lot of grains?