Simvistatin good to take?

[aberdeen577]

Hello All,
My HBsAg is 12.80 UL/ml and my HBsAB is <10UL/ml. Fibroscan currently showing 8.7kpa. I take high concentrated EPA/DHA fish oil and high concentrated vit D currently. I have seen in other posts that the surface antigen needs or makes cholesterol to multiply itself and I have just had a test for mine and it is 5.8. My doctor says it is too high and has written me a prescription for simvistatin. Now I have tried everything to get it down and nothing works so it looks like I need to take these statins. What are your thoughts? Should I continue to try to watch my diet ( I like too many sweet things) and not begin the statins or begin taking them? If I do take them will they be of benefit for the HBV as I seem to be clearing it?
Thank you to all the great posters here for helping and guiding us with your great knowledge of the virus and ways to help.

[aberdeen577]

Thank you, I will try to reduce by being more careful with my diet and trying to do more exercise each week. I have been told that If I start statins for cholesterol then I will have to take them for ever. Don't know if this is true or not.

[aberdeen577]

since sim is active on hbv (atleast in vitro),

forgive me for asking Stef but what does "in vitro" mean?

[stef2011]

studied on cells outside the body

[djxpress]

sim may have an effect on ALT.  When I started taking 20 mg, my ALT went from 29 to 55

[stef2011]

alt on statin is not correlated to liver damage and normalize while taking it, it is due to normalization of lipids.there are many posts of studies i put last year about this

the only side of statin to consider is muscles damage due to rise of cpk or similar tests this happens at 80mg dose but may happen even at 40mg.i had muscles pains at 80mg but no rise of cpk

[stef2011]

sim is also indicated on cirrhosis so of obviously the alt changes has no impact on liver.it lowers portal pressure, improve blood flow thru the liver, helps fibrosis repair, indicated for compensated and decompensated cirrhosis

there has never been a study proving liver damage but strange they put controindications for liver, today FDA was asked to let drug makers remove those false controindications but FDA said it can t and that drug makers should do it on their choice.producers of generics from other countries removed that false indication