About a year and a half ago my total cholesterol # got too 263 and my MD strongly recomended a statin to control it. I agreed, knowing I had little motivation to deal with high cholesterol via diet/exercise. I used Baycol, which brought me down to 190 in a month. After 9 months of use my mail order drug outfit told me it was removed from the market, as 30 or so people had died from using this statin (made my Bayer). My MD wanted me to try another one, as Baycol was fairly new, but I disagreed, and am now HIGHLY motivated to control my cholesterol via nutrition and exercise.

So, statins do bring cholesterol down, but too risky for me. They can also damage your liver.

I hope you find some motivation to control your cholesterol level via nutrition and exercise; that episode with Baycol did it for me. LOL