{"id":614953,"date":"2009-12-28T04:23:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T09:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47030-statins-how-many-points.html"},"modified":"2009-12-28T04:23:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T09:23:55","slug":"statins-how-many-points-did-your-ldl-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/614953","title":{"rendered":"Statins: How Many Points Did Your LDL Drop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;ve been on 4 different statins and failed all 4 due to myalgia and the start of rhabdomyolysis. However, I was on the first one, Lipitor, for three months. During that time:<\/p>\n<p>~   My Total Bilirubin dropped 50% [liver acting up].<\/p>\n<p>~   My LDL dropped 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>\nNot worth it for me. Better to do it the old fashioned way &#8211; exercise and eat right.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on 4 different statins and failed all 4 due to myalgia and the start of rhabdomyolysis. However, I was on the first one, Lipitor, for three months. During that time: ~ My Total Bilirubin dropped 50% [liver acting up]. ~ My LDL dropped 15 points. Not worth it for me. Better to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zYB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}