Rowan, the reason you are kept on statins while having low cholesterol level, is because it is a precaution against having another TIA. So I have been told. My reading is 3.7.
Now I too have joined you ranks of BP medication takers! I went a week ago to the TIA clinic doctor following my annual batch of blood tests.
Thyroid function TSH was steady (4.4)
Cholesterol still 3.7.
However my BP which has ALways been low, except during pregnancies so long ago, had risen to 145 over 98. Had to return to the nurse for check on Thurs and it had dropped a little. Today I was back with the doctor (I usually prefer to see one no more than once a year) for an eye condition. Took my BP which has rocketed to 165 over 103. So I have been put on Lisinopril @ 2.5 mgs. To add to my
Daily aspirin 75 mg
Atorvastatin 10 mg (thank goodness, as I really struggled with the Simvastatin)
Thyroxine 150 mcg
Dicloverine for the weird intolerances (as and when)
plus the Glucosamine and eye drops.
Purely by coincidence
BP started to rise after a mistaken verbal estimate for the private oral surgery - a 'few hundred pounds' changed to a printed quotation option of way over £2,000 fixed rate package!!!
Immediately put myself back with NHS. So now we wait. The op would have been today......in fact, right this minute!
The worry lies not so much in the mouth, as in the frustration caused by hassles.