Statin is not suitable for everyone. We do not recommend statins or other cholesterol-lowering drugs for women of childbearing age, nor for people with a low risk of heart attack or stroke. You must change your diet. Your LDL may gradually decrease after taking the medication for a period of time, but you must remember that you must change your previous bad habits, and your body’s health cannot be determined only by the level of your blood lipids. Changes in diet and moderate exercise can lower cholesterol by 4 to 13 percent, and statins can lower cholesterol by 20 to 45 percent. It may hurt the liver and muscle discomfort may occur. All medications have side effects, and lipid-lowering drugs are certainly no exception. For example, statins may increase muscle tissue damage and liver function damage, and the risk may be increased if used in combination with antibiotics or other cholesterol-lowering drugs. In addition, if you experience gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, stomach pain, constipation or diarrhea, as well as drowsiness and discomfort such as muscle aches, weakness or flushing after taking the medication, you should tell your doctor promptly to switch medications. Use with some drugs affects the efficacy of the drug. In addition to statins, fibrates and niacin are also lipid-lowering drugs, and many other drugs can affect their efficacy. For example, antibacterial drugs, anticoagulant warfarin, calcium channel blockers such as diltiazem, and certain antihypertensive drugs need to be used separately from lipid-lowering drugs. In addition, many foods can also affect lipid-lowering drugs. For example, grapefruit juice can significantly inhibit the activity of liver drug enzymes, and taking it together with statin lipid-lowering drugs can increase their blood concentration and increase the risk of muscle damage. Therefore, do not drink grapefruit juice when taking statin lipid-lowering drugs, and grape juice, orange juice and other beverages should also be avoided as much as possible. You can’t be too eager to get results. You can’t expect to take a lipid-lowering drug and have less cholesterol in your bloodstream right away. Depending on the dose, the effect time may be a week or two, or a month or two. Failure to follow medical advice has serious consequences, and an American Heart Association survey found that failure to adhere to the correct medication was a major reason why patients did not see results with their medication. Studies have shown that 12 percent of people get a prescription but don’t pick up the medication, 12 percent pick up the medication but don’t take it, and 22 percent stop taking it after a period of time because of concerns about side effects or the cost of the medication. If your doctor thinks you should take a lipid-lowering drug and you don’t, the risk of heart attack and stroke goes up.