I esentially did the same thing. Went on Medicare, thought I had better get a checkup as I have to take care of my elderly mother. Had a blood test which showed I had high cholesterol. I changed my diet and my cholesterol dropped over 100 points in a month, just 15 points away from the recommended goal of 200. Instead of asking me what I did with encouragement to control what I was doing and a followup blood test in a few months, doctor wanted to put me on a statin. I said no.
I don’t want some woke doctor prescribing drugs. I know not all doctors are this way, but I was really discouraged. I’m looking for a doctor who is of the mind that food is medicine.
Excellent, happy for you. :)
I’ve encountered this.
I recently went back into the VA medical system for a service-connected disability issue which had worsened. I brought in a list of my private practice prescribed meds and told my VA-assigned Primary Care doctor I had a quad bypass a few years ago. Knowing I was vaxxed the VA doctor removed my prescribed anti-coagulant and told me to reduce aspirin. Then he prescribes two medicines which have warnings for causing heart attacks. Thankfully, I stuck with my old VA-habit of researching all newly prescribed meds I get from the VA so didn’t take them and used the anti-coagulant from my private care doctor.
Then I have a prescription telephonic meeting with a new, young VA prescription tech. They do a speakerphone conference going over my meds. The young tech reveiws my meds list and tells me to reduce aspirin use and be sure to take the meds which cause heart attacks!
I have another teleconference with him in the future and will consider questioning him about removing the anti-coagulants and prescribing known heart attack risks to a quad bypass recipient with high blood pressure and vaxxed.
Woketards.
You probably z.ready know this, but if not, supposedly oatmeal and cheerios both work to reduce cho.esterol. I hope I don’t get high cholesterol, I hate both of them lol
Good luck...most of those types of docs do not take any insurance or medicare.