Anyone On Medication For Cholesterol Or Blood Thinning?

[dave50]

I'm 62 and I'm lucky not to have needed the doctors very often but I was wondering if I have slipped through the net as everyone I speak to my age is on some kind of medication as mentioned above but I am not. Any thoughts please?

[woofgang]

anneasquith
"I wonder why we would refuse a health MOT ? "

well I know why I did, can't speak for anyone else.

[nolok756962]

Recently I have check my blood Cholesterol. Nothing bad over their. Thanks to Allah.

[margarettom]

I am 76 and don’t need to take either medication. Take lots of other things though.

[anneasquith]

Woof, why did you refuse a health MOT ?

[woofgang]

anneasquith
Woof, why did you refuse a health MOT ?

No comment, my business.

[anneasquith]

Ok !!!

[Theland]

Daily station and low dose aspirin.

[webbo3]

I'm sure I read somewhere a good few years ago taking garlic capsules can help reduce cholesterol

[davebro]

There are dietary solutions I think - things to eat/things to avoid but without being tested you won't know if your cholesterol is out of kilter and whether to adjust your diet or take medication.

[Vagus]

Some people have an inherited tendency to have high cholesterol, diet doesn’t make much/any difference.
We’ve both been taking statins for a number of years, it’s that long ago I really can’t remember. I’d rather take them than not as it keeps my levels within guidelines.
Low dose aspirin is recommended to help reduce the risk of colon cancer and other digestive tract cancers.
My feeling is we all make our own minds up about whether or not to follow the guidelines. I care not what others do, I just do what I feel is right for myself.

[jourdain2]

I'm 71 and not on either of the ones you mention. I just have my inhalers for asthma (and I take an anti-histamine a day in Spring and Summer as the nurse recommended, because some pollens set me off). Recently I've been on Xalatan drops in my eyes to reduce the pressures because I have developed glaucoma, but after my cataracts were removed, 1 in April & the other in May, the pressures have returned to normal limits - so I'm hoping that at my check-up in August I will be able to stop the drops.

As others have said, some people are prone to ailments, others aren't.

[Mamyalynne]

Xalatan is one of my drops for Glaucoma and yes, it does regulate the pressures quite well.

Been on those and another for over 15 years now.