Triglycerides

please assisrt me with the most effective medication to lower triglycerides and cholesterol levels?

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1. Most MDs don't hand out meds like candy. Has your doctor perscribed you something? You cannot just go in and get it. You first need to try diet and exercise, cutting out red meat, or a bowl of Cheerios a day. Have you tried any of these?
2. It would be helpful to know your lipid profile results. Many physicians will commonly start people on statins for high LDL. If your HDL is too low, you may benefit from a combination drug, one which raises your HDL and lowers your LDL. If you are diabetic, keeping your blood sugar in control is important factor, and some people with severely elevated trigliceride levels may need to see an endocrinologist. It really varies depending on your total lipid picture! Hope this helps.
3. Try diet and exercise before meds. I found out my problem too late. So now I am on extremely restrictive diet and two meds. That's after quad bypass. There are many meds out there and each have good and bad points. Talk to your doctor.
4. Cholesterol is the big worry. Two meds are amazing in their effectiveness. Statins block the production of cholesterol in the liver, and Zetia blocks the reabsorption of cholesterol from the gut. 'Normal' cholesterol in the USA is 200mg. But 1/2 of all people are dying from cholesterol blocking their arteries. Heart and strokes. To me that means that 200 is a lethal level. In countries where there are no heart attacks the normal cholesterol is 70 to 110mg. The two meds above come in one pill, Vytorin. It brought my cholesterol down from 210 to 108 in about 3 years. One pill a day. It takes starvation to do that well in the USA with out the pill. Best to cut out sugar also. The liver makes all the sugar the body needs.
5. medications in this catagory come with a high price tag. They cause cancer. Well-designed studies have shown the link between cholesterol-lowering drug use and cancer. In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Thomas B. Newman MD, MPH and co-workers show that all cholesterol-lowering drugs, both the early drugs known as fibrates (glofibrate, gemfibrozil) and the newer drugs known as statins (Lipitor, Pravachol, Zocor), cause cancer in rodents at the equivalent doses used by man.[1] The extrapolation of evidence of cancer from rodent to human is very uncertain. This is the argument of those in favor of using cholesterol-lowering drugs. The argument would only be plausible if human studies also showed an increase in cancer rates. And in fact, that is what scientists are finding. http://www.thincs.org/links.htm