i have been on vytorin 10/10 for 2 yrs.Last year i started having...

do you eat meat? animal products are the only source of dietary cholesterol. everything else is made by your liver. you can drop your cholesterol naturally by eliminating all animal products from your diet and adding some regular exercise like walking for 1/2 hr a day.
if you must eat animal foods, make sure they are grass fed or pastured. grain feeding alters the type of fat in meat. it also makes the animals sick and requires them to be fed massive doses of antibiotics. and it costs about 3 calories of oil to make 1 calorie of hamburger. the way animals are raised in the industrial food system is not only horrible to the animals and poisonous to us, its also ruining the planet.
so find pastured grass fed beef and chicken and eggs and dairy from grass fed animals

I'd certainly check the red yeast rice, seems that it is an "organic statin" and people have reported the same bad side effects, statins may have even evolved from red yeast rice. Check lipitor, zocor and simvastatin on this site, they are all statins with colosal dangerous side effects reported. There was an advert in the Wall St journal placed by the makers of Vytorin that stated in the advert "this medicine has not been shown to prevent heart attacks" how frightnening is that? Vytorin is a mix of statin and another cholestrol lowering medicine, it was promoted as the bees knees. It has now flunked and dangerously. I'm in your age group regrettably we have to research for ourselves to look after ourselves. Try starting with spacedoc dot net if it doesn't anger you, it will certainly sober you. Best.

Whats wrong with total cholesterol of 250? WHO says your cholesterol is high? WHO says you must lower it below 200? WHO profits the most when YOU become a customer for life?

Think about it.