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745393 tn?1345077196

cholesterol medications

I recently had a visit with heart doctor. I had test done,found out that my cholesterol was 190. Couple of months ago it was 166. I have tried a lot of meds for this condition, have taken advicor,lipitor,crestor,zetia,tricor,provastatin,niaspan,gemfibronil. I have been on lovaza (omega 3,and 6 ) for the pass five months, but as you can see it has not helped very much. Heart doctor says I have taken the limit. All of these choles meds causes me to ache in my muscles very very bad, and dr. says this could be a serious situation. I need to know from someone please what can I take now ?. I need very bad to be on some med. I've had triple bypass in 2006 and 1 stent in 2008. I am desperate.  Please answer someone
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212161 tn?1599427282
wow i know how you feel my tricgrites are 563 way to high am on tricor  now have not had a blood test yet to see what they are. thank you for talking to me about my test. still scared have you had before with shot not walking  treadmill.  looks like you been through it with triple bypass i hand it to you , and pray everything goes well from here out. always here to talk .
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690060 tn?1247841741
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have you tried taking the supplement called CoQ10 with the drug?

And your artery disease problems might have more to do with systemwide inflammation than with cholesterol.

Or maybe it's your diet. What about exercise?
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