Do any of you have FH and NOT take statins? What do you take, if anything, instead?

[Seahorse]

[YvonneD]

I am female with inherited FH and - until the menopause - only took Kyolic (natural, ag-dried garlic tablets) from my local health food shop (in addition to a healthy diet). I did this for nearly twenty years, despite all the experts telling me it could not work. Every time I took them, my cholesterol level came down and every time I stopped, it went up. As I got older, I had to gradually increase the dose but no side effects so it was worth it. Although I now have to take statins, I am on a low dose and I am still taking kyolic in addition. Hope this may help you too.

[MumwithFH]

Plant sterol 750mg, CoQ10 100-200mg, Porridge and flax seed. This without statins bring bring my levels from 9.5 to 7.1.

[spats]

I take 4x 750mg Plant Sterols the 200mg CoQ10 Oat drink and Omega 3 1000mg x4 to maintain around 6,4 - 6,1 Have to do this as Statins all produced crippling side effects within days of taking them once I had been subjected to a high dose. They were OK to begin with. Now not able to re start with any of them. I AM over sensitive to other drugs. Good luck in finding complementary medicines to suit.

[2squirrels]

Don't the steroids make you gain weight.

[Ronion in reply to 2squirrels]

sterols, not steroids.

[Hidden]

patient.co.uk/doctor/choles...

steroids and sterols different products....hit link to find out about sterols.....hope this helps.

[deepblue]

Have "possible" FH as have been tested but they couldnt find the gene. At last test cholesterol down from 8.9 to 7.5 with flax, oats,nuts, - roughly following the portfolio diet. Couldnt tolerate atorvastatin and unwilling to try rosuvastatin

[DakCB-UK]

Just a small note that I got a 25ish% reduction from diet alone but I didn't feel it was enough so I now take statins.

[betabalance]

Great results DakCB-UK interesting that you didn't find it enough. How are you finding statins?

[Ronion]

You can try bergamot supplements. But there are no guarantees that "natural" products don't have the same drawbacks as pharmaceutical grade statins.

[Ronion]

For cholesterol reduction, the best thing is to eat as little as possible. The easiest way to cut cholesterol by half is to eat half as much of everything.

[Rueben]

Hi Seahorse and everyone

Can i please refer you to my post under the cholesterol lowering drinks thread to save me repeating my comments on this subject?

Thank you