Ding, ding, ding. We have the winner!!
All of the statin drugs made me fell like hell. Unfortunately genetics was not on my side and finally got 5 bypasses.
After surgery, finally got serious about my eating habits. Stopped eating any meat except for salmon (and that in limited quantities), stopped eating eggs, minimized fat intake of all types (learn to read the nutrition labels), eat soy-based protein powder, greatly reduced sugar intake (no more sodas, cookies, pie, ice cream, etc.)
Results were lost 15 lbs so I now weigh about 5 lbs over what I weighed when I was on the high school track team, and cholesterol is around 170 versus 210-220 pre-surgery.
You don't need the drugs if you are capable of making the serious changes to your eating habits, which most people aren't.
Steve