Resurrecting this thread, I've just had a letter from the diabetes registrar, stating that because repeat high cholesterol, she IS putting me on statins.
I've discussed this with the Consultant several times, and he was not overly concerned, particularly when he understood low carb diet, copious cycling, no obesity, blood pressure fine, maybe a little low etc, he even said he'd go and chat with a tame lipidologist (don't know if this actually happened). So I'm tempted to respond to registrar with
1 no process followed here, jumped straight to drugs
2 no advice/consultation on diet, alcohol (can definitely cut this)
3 niacin
4 ultimately choice of statin - hydrophilic vs lipophilic seems to have a big effect on muscle soreness and increase in blood glucose, quite important for a type 1 diabetic habitual exerciser.
Seems overall poor doctoring to me
As an aside, I'd be interested to hear who's on hydro vs lipophilic here, and experience of side effects