I am 78 male. BP under control with medicine. In september '14 i had two stents put in one each in CRA and LAD and since thhen I've been feeling ok jogging and playing tennis. My heart surgeon still wants me to continue with statin 40mg a day along with CERUVIN ( clopidegrol)even after 15 months.Of late I've developed sciatica and am .on Gaba pin 300mg a day and statin I think is giving me cramps. so I gave it up on 7th Oct and felt better for it. test on 29th Nov HDL- 46 and LDL - 112 from 50 and 63 mg/dl respectively on 18th Sep. surgeon also wanted a thallium stress test done which i am yet to do.
should i take statin since LDL has almost doubled and can the dosage not be something like 5 or 10mg and that too on every other day.