When ever you go to see a doctor if you are older most of them are required by the hospital they use for their patients to ask if you would consider a statin. It is a Medicare rule they must follow, and the hospitals enforce it on the doctors.
I have always said no, and let my doc know exactly what I thought about them. My last visit after the mandated question, and the firm no. The doc told me there had been studies done that showed taking 4000 mg of fish oil had proven just as effective at reducing cholesterol as a statin, and not liver damage.
I had already been taking 2000 mg, and adding a couple more a day was no issue although I doubt I needed it since I have never had high cholesterol.
When ever you go to see a doctor if you are older most of them are required by the hospital they use for their patients to ask if you would consider a statin. It is a Medicare rule they must follow, and the hospitals enforce it on the doctors.
I have always said no, and let my doc know exactly what I thought about them. My last visit after the mandated question, and the firm no. The doc told me there had been studies done that showed taking 4000 mg of fish oil had proven just as effective at reducing cholesterol as a statin, and not liver damage.
I had already been taking 2000 mg, and adding a couple more a day was no issue although I doubt I needed it since I have never had high cholesterol.