As a footnote to all this statin talk....I personally never liked them. I also never had high LDL, but, being stented, cardio doc prescribed ezetimibe recently. You rarely hear about it, at least on this board. In my own trial of one, LDL went from 93 to 46 on "only" 10 mg. Cardio doc said something interesting yesterday: "The good thing about it is it has almost no side effects". Oh btw my cardio knows all about and favors V as well. Maybe it's supercharging the ezetimibe also.