Hello didi5152!

Welcome to the group of two, you and me. If you look at the other posts in this Board you will see that I am about the only one that has responded to someone's opening post for months. If you are new to DS then you may not know why this Board, and many others, are nearly dead. Many months ago the owners of DS decided to reformat the Board (much needed), unfortunately they made it worse and many members disappeared. The HC Board was always very slow with only a few, very few, folks, but now even most of them have vanished.

If you look at some of the other threads you will see that I have responded to most, but not all posts if the OP's question was out of my experience. Below is a copy and paste from one of my more recent posts, which I think applies in your case. However, since there is no "preview" function on DS, I am not sure if a cut and paste will work (mainly the links). If not, just check a few posts down from yours and you will find the original (4/13/18 post date). Bottomline IMO, your numbers are great and I would love to have a Lipid Panel anywhere near as good as yours. I refuse to take statin because, 1) they are useless, and 2) cause me nonstop pain. I already suffer from chronic pain for unrelated reasons so I do not need any more pain especially one that cannot be controlled. If nothing else, visit spacedoc.com to find a huge supply of good information on this subject. Anyway.....now quoting myself....

There is so much BS going around about cholesterol and almost all of it is garbage. You really need to do some work reading about this whole issue if just being told that your cholesterol is high worries you.

First, buy and read "The Great Cholesterol Myth" by Dr. Stephen Sinatra and Jonny Bowden, Ph.D. They are true experts in their respective fields (cardiologist, and nutrition).

For a free and a very detailed website, visit "spacedoc.com". There is a huge amount of information at that site, Sadly, the founder of the site, "Dr. Duane Graveline, M.D." died several months ago from the side effects of Lipitor forced on him by his last employer; NASA, Therefore, I am not sure who is keeping tabs on this site now, but all the data is still there. https://spacedoc.com/

For the previously mentioned books see: https://www.amazon.com/Cholesterol-Recipes-Preventing-Reversing-Disease-ebook/dp/B011WMKPHM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523648059&sr=1-1&keywords=cholesterol+myth

Looks like the links survived the cut and paste. To add one more comment; if your doctor continues this BS about you taking statins then I would tell him/her that "you are fired!" My PCP brings up the statin subject from time to time and he knows that he is going to be in for a butt kicking so he finally gave up. It is too bad that doctors cannot read, or take the time, to actually read the studies on statins, they are nowhere near the great things that is spun in the news. In one study, more people died in the statin test group from "death from all causes" than died in the non-statin "control group" even though there was a small drop in cardio related events in the statin group. I wonder why no one ever mentions that minor fact; more statin testers died early than non-statin users? Dead is dead regardless of the cause IMO.

statins are a scam. They cut the Mavelonate pathway which will make you VERY Ill...the doctors have been trained by pharma to ignore complaints of side effects from these drugs....the drugs are straight from hell. Nutrients made from the mavelonate pathway include: vitamin D3, all hormones, bile salts, eye nutrients, b vitamins, skin nutrients, brain nutrients (your brain is 50% fat)…..There is a better way....note: 300 is not high cholesterol I have met people with TSC's of 900 who have normal llives….try to research all of this here is Dr. David Diamond to start you off: cut and paste this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc1XsO3mxX8