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Since you had such strong reaction to statins (the cholesterol lowering medications including zocor (simvastatin)), I would be cautious to try other statins, eventhough pravastatin (pravachol) and lovastatin (mevacor) are not as strong as zocor. As far as other group of cholesterol lowering medication, I do not they have good long term clinical benefit, and most of them are not cheap, niacin probably is a good choic if you have low HDL (the good cholesterol),but it also has muscular side effects.
There is a small clinical study showed that life style modification (low calorie healthy diet, exercise, and weight loss) plus fish oil (12gm/d) and red yeast rice (3.6gm/d) had similar cholesterol lowering effect as 40mg zocor, but red yeast rice contain small amount lovastatin (about 3.5mg per capsule (0.6gm)). I would be very cautious with you situation. Certainly life style modification is probably the safest.
Good luck.
Since you had such strong reaction to statins (the cholesterol lowering medications including zocor (simvastatin)), I would be cautious to try other statins, eventhough pravastatin (pravachol) and lovastatin (mevacor) are not as strong as zocor. As far as other group of cholesterol lowering medication, I do not they have good long term clinical benefit, and most of them are not cheap, niacin probably is a good choic if you have low HDL (the good cholesterol),but it also has muscular side effects.
There is a small clinical study showed that life style modification (low calorie healthy diet, exercise, and weight loss) plus fish oil (12gm/d) and red yeast rice (3.6gm/d) had similar cholesterol lowering effect as 40mg zocor, but red yeast rice contain small amount lovastatin (about 3.5mg per capsule (0.6gm)). I would be very cautious with you situation. Certainly life style modification is probably the safest.
Good luck.
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