re: Anyone in their 40s taking blood pressure meds?

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maybe ask your cardiologist what your CV risk is looking like and if you need to be on the statin. i may have misremembered the % from earlier (theres a couple associations with different thresholds). he's probably (reasonably) using your high range 165 and Id wager it will be recommended to be on a statin per his association's recommendations. if you want to listen to your doctor and follow his advice see if he minds the lowest intensity statin on your formulary (probably prava or simva statin). if those still cause side effects then you can say you gave it an honest shake... and your cardiologist won't remember you as someone who ignored an expert opinion because he heard somewhere cholesterol doesn't matter. bc the truth is we don't only use statins to lower cholesterol. statins have other properties that mitigate CV risk in addition to lowering cholesterol... which is why the formula determining if statins are useful includes a multitude of factors, not just cholesterol.

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He was very reluctant on putting me on statins and is very careful with my BP meds because he’s afraid of my BP dropping too low at times.

So he’s comfortable with low doses of BP and the statin but like I said I quit the stain until I do labs in 2 weeks and I have my 6 mos checkup with him and see what he says