Creeping LDL
Looking for advice. Already have plans of meeting with a preventative cardiologist but not until September.
38F 5’10” 145 pounds. Exercise everyday either cardio strength, training or mobility. 10k+ steps per day. No smoking or alcohol. Dad had a heart attack in his 50s. Both parents on statins now and have been for a long time.
My LDL has been creeping up the last couple years and I am healthier now than I have ever have been. Plant based vegan, very minimal processed food. Low saturated fat, eating psyllium husk and oats daily for years now. Nothing is working. The ironic thing is I was really struggling with health anxiety and got on Zoloft and stopped tracking everything so stringently and THAT is when my LDL went down to 118. Have been healthier since then and it’s back up to 134 now.
My doctor was really accusatory in our last appointment because I was hesitant to start RYR (her recommendation). I said I’d rather be on a low dose statin than an unregulated supplement and she said well you don’t qualify for statins. Yet she was scolding me saying “do you want to be on a statin??” Like I’m not already doing everything I can. I basically had to agree to start RYR to get another six month check up. (I haven’t but I did buy them) I asked for Lp(a) & ApoB she didn’t know what either of those were and didn’t order them.
Is there anything else I can do?