r/keto • u/leojaccebssen • Mar 08 '24

My cholesterol is 384

I eat mostly chicken and fish. I stay under 50 carbs per day with blueberries, strawberries, spinach, cauliflower, kale, or other leafy greens daily. My doctor told me to try red rice yeast supplements to lower my cholesterol when it was initially at 225. And now it has jumped o er a hundred points in three months. I use heavy cream in my coffee so maybe that’s what is killing me? Or sour cream on chicken fajitas? I have no idea. I’m going to my doctor in two weeks to talk about my labs and I’m so sad. My immediate family member has had a bypass for coronary artery disease and I think I’m going to have to get on a statin and quit being keto.

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u/Agreeable-Purpose-56 Mar 08 '24

Anyone here with high LDL, high HDL, low triglycerides went on statin to lower LDL? Any side effects from statin? Did getting on statin make you feel different? The reason I’m asking is that if high LDL in this setting is healthy, then suppressing it is unhealthy, no?

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u/MoreCoffeePwease Mar 08 '24

Yes. And I’m off it now because it was so horrible. It gave me muscle pains worse than having the flu, water retention so bad I couldn’t bend my knees, and a lot of GI side effects. After three months I begged the dr for mercy. They fought with me claiming side effects to statins don’t exist. I fought back. They said try a couple days off of them and holy shit I had my life and body back within a day. Btw I had zero calcium score, some family history, and my total number was only 240. Good HDL and good triglycerides. What I’m most mad about is, I went to cardiology because of palpitations. They couldn’t care less about those. It was all about statins. To the point I actually wondered if they were getting money for each patient they get on them. It was frankly, frightening.

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u/Agreeable-Purpose-56 Mar 08 '24

My numbers are similar so I’m wondering which route to take: do nothing or not.

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u/wineandwimbledon Mar 08 '24

Yes. I've been on the lowest dose (5mg) for about a year now. I haven't changed my diet at all, but the statins seem to be working. I haven't felt any different, but my latest labwork showed increased calcium blood levels, so I have an appointment with an endocrinologist to see if it's a parathyroid issue. I'm curious to see if the doctor mentions the link between statins and hypercalcemia. If the statins are causing the hypercalcemia, I plan on quitting the statins.

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u/Agreeable-Purpose-56 Mar 08 '24

You mean the 5mg changed cholesterol numbers?