Hello everyone,
I was recommended this forum by my (generally wonderful) GP, who put me on HRT six months ago - and possibly saved my life. I was suffering from extreme anxiety and insomnia, triggered by a horrible sequence of stressful events at work - and my periods just 'stopped'. I will never know whether the stress at work helped trigger the menopause early, or the onset of menopause made the stress much worse. Anyway, I'm on the mend- am about to start a new job, which will hopefully be less stressful. Posting because I'm trawling the forum for information about high cholesterol. My LDL was up six months ago, and I'm anxiously waiting for the outcome of a second test, after 6 months of try avoiding bad fats, and being largely vegan. To put it in perspective, I got plenty of exercise, was in fairly good shape, and ate a Mediterranean style diet before I started messing around with it in response to my GP threatening me with statins - so to improve my diet, I had to resort to ‘extreme measures', but don't know if I've done enough. Anyone out there taking statins? What are the side effects like? BTW, I'm 45 - so still on the young side for statins. I just feel biology has played a nasty joke on me, and I'm *not finding it funny anymore* .