I started by using 'Rescue" available at www.n3inc.com; stuff's not cheap but worth every penny. The same strength is available by prescription called "Omacor">,p> My mother had a carotid artery blockage; totally dissolved in 3 months...the doctors don't know what to say.
Niacin makes me very uncomfortable; the flushing of the skin kinda hurt when I took it, and finally bit the pill into quarters so as to cut the dose, but it still gave me an itchy-yucky feeling in my skin.