Haggis,
You have made great progress. If you look at some of my previous posts I was in a similar boat with my HDL. I read a lot on this board and the trackyourplaque website. Things I did were exercise, 1000mg per day of SloNiacin, 8000iu of Vitamin D per day, 4000mg of Fish oil per day. My HDL jumped from 41 to 68. My LDL hasn't moved but I am quite pleased with my Tri's, HDL and total. Maybe total time on this woe helps too. I have never taken statins or anything else for cholesterol, I was on BP medicine for 5 years, but am no more. Keep doing what your doing the numbers will get a lot better and hopefully you can be weened off the prescriptions.