Should I take statins?

I’m doing a controlled experiment, or as close to it as possible.

Things like this are hard for me because I live in several different environments— at work on a ship, at home, traveling, etc.

I decided that the most controlled environment for an experiment is at work on a ship. I stopped taking crestor for about 10 days— and recorded my cgm data for the last week of it. Today I started taking it again… I’ll only be on the ship for about 5 more days, but I should have some pretty valid data to compare by then including total insulin usage, average BG, standard of deviation, and basal/ bolus ratio. Will see if I can observe any trends.

I had discussed this with my doc, and she said that pravastatin is an option that has less risks regarding upsetting the blood sugar apple cart than crestor (rosuvastatin) We’ll see what the data shows

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Interesting results

Off crestor:
Average glucose 125
Standard deviation 26
Average daily insulin total 37.9u
Operating pump in manual mode 19% of time

On crestor
Average glucose 130
Standard deviation 29
Average daily insulin total 44.4u
Operating pump in manual mode 37% of time — indicative of putting more work into managing blood sugar—

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