Letrozole and high cholesterol

Hi Gabes

I'm sorry to see that no one from this group has been able to answer your question yet. It could be that no one in this group has the right experience to help or just that they haven't seen your post yet. By replying it will 'bump' it back to the top of the page where hopefully it'll be seen by someone who can help.

I'm also going to tag and GRANNY59 into my reply as they look after this group and should have the necessary information to help you further.

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Not on any meds but as I’m diabetic they check my cholesterol regularly.  It was high but now I follow a high fat, low carb diet my cholesterol has dropped and my trigs are brill.  

I follow low carb diet as all carbs turn to sugar so would increase my reliance on drugs.  When I say high fat I mean I don’t avoid fat so have  butter not Marge and cream on my food!  I don’t eat red meat or fish  as I dislike .  So mainly chicken in sauces and veg grown above ground.  I take metformin and there is some research in this preventing recurrence if BC but my doctor hasn’t heard of. 

Hi Gabes, have you been presciribed statins yet? 

My cholesterol was fine until I started Letrozole, and it is higher now. It was only questioned when I developed hypertension. I refused the statins as I knew there were some quite nasty side effects, and I felt I had enough of those  with the Letrozole! I was on a good diet. Fast forward to my colon cancer diagnosis in 2017, and I was referred to a lovely cardiologist as my BP was uncontrolled. He really sorted me out and got me fit for surgery. He did prescribe a statin, as research showed a higher percentage survival rate for major surgery but I could not bring myself to take it. Unfortunately post surgery I have had several episodes of intestinal obstruction due to adhesions, so my healthy diet has has to be modified somewhat. I still don't want to take the statins, and make sure I do not gain any weight, and exercise as much as I can. It is all a balance, and you have to weigh up pros and cons. Good luck xx

I've been on letrozole 

Hi Seaspirit44, I've been on letrozole for 2 months and I have high BP. The doctor put me on amlodipine 3weeks ago but so far, although it's lower, it's not low enough. I take the amlodipine in the morning and the letrozole in the evening, of course, they are cancelling each other.

Sorry I was replying to Grogg