Statin advice

[Mighty-oak]

Afaik 10mg diazepam is around 1mg of clonazepam. The charts are off sometimes.
If you have a family history of heart attacks Amitriptyline isn't the best choice, given that it's a tricyclic antidepressant. Those can be pretty bad for your heart.

From wikipedia

Thanks mate

Current meds are..... Clonazepam 0.25mg daily, 10mg Diazepam daily, 40mg Celexa daily and 10mg Citrazine (Anti-histamine, seems anxiety causes my histamine to raise?) daily......Also take 500mg Vit C and 10mg Zinc daily.

I tried amitiptyline, took 1x10mg tab in the evening and I was lie a zombie after about an hour, like a very strong sedative, used it for about a week and stopped it as it also made me very aggressive, far worse than any anabolic steroid I have used in the past as in aggression.

 

[Deleted member 170540]

On the original question:

When describing the benefit/harm ratio of medications, a value called NNT (number needed to treat) is often used. It is the statistical number of patients that have to be treated with the medication for one patient to actually benefit from it (e.g. not get a stroke they would otherwise have gotten). The NNT for statins seems to be at least 30, which means that 29 out of 30 people who use them don't get any significant benefit. I think this is the reason why some doctors are against statin use.

 

[Foreigner]

The latest research coming out within the past year is showing that high cholesterol is not related to cardiovascular disease as once thought, and that statins may cause disease. It's interesting to see that happening, especially after not long ago they declared that depriving people of dietary saturated fat is actually a major cause of heart disease.

It seems like high stress, poor diet and lack of healthy heart activity are more major causes. There are lots of healthy people with high cholesterol, it may be genetic.

 

[CFC]

You didn't mention anabolic steroid use mate, which definitely does increase risk factors. If you're particularly worried, you can simply buy OTC. You don't need a prescription in the UK, although I wouldn't recommend doing this without your GP's consent and regular blood tests.

As others have said things like carbohydrate intake, triglycerides etc may be just as dangerous for the genetically susceptible, and statins are recently coming in for a lot of bad press, though on balance I may be inclined to use with your background.