Need Advice on Statins ...Help

[astarda]

wow, a lot of info here.more than any dr. has told me . I have 1 sister who also has a pacemaker ( heat rate of 33 beats per minute ).. my heart rate went down to 32 beats a minute after i went in to have my gallbladder removed . I had to be revived twice as they could not get me to wake up from sleeping meds they gave to me . .that is when they told me i needed a pacemaker and am now pacer dependent .this was almost 2 years ago . I had leads revised this past june 2008 when they were cracked from the fall i took even though it took them 8 months to finally believe i was getting shocked and my left arm went crazy.
my father died when he was 41 from blood clot years back and i guess that is 1 reason i am so concerned about my cholesterol..I also have 2 other sisters who are both on statins..my older sister over the past year is a mess which i believe is all coming from the statin. she has massive amount of memory loss,slurring speech ,worrys about dying all the time ..mood swings ..nothing like she use to be but my younger sister appears to be ok so far .
My Daughter at the age of 13 had her thyroid removed at age 13 for a goiter ..but the goiter came back and at 21 she had surgery again and they took out her thyroid in her neck also .

I have never cared for the taste of meats and have never eat fish of any kind .even though i have heard it is good for a body to eat fish .
I have always heard Red Meats (steak,Hamburger ect..causes build up of plaque in the arteries so i just have not eaten any . my daily meals consist of
morning ..oatmeal or cereal & coffee ..i skip dinner most the time ..mabey a small salad or cup of soup ..and supper is all about vegigies & grapejuice..i never eat sweets ..but confess to drinking Sprite during the day .but even though i have all but quit eating i cannot seem to loose what pds i have put on since i got my pacemaker .
I believe i read somewhere that the levoxyl i take for my thyroid is made from animal some way ,but my dr. told me either take it and live or not take it and die ...
so i can eat a reasonable amount of food and not raise my cholestrol more as long as i watch what i eat .I am trying so hard to get it down ,would like to stay around a while longer ..you know .this constant worry about trying to get my cholesterol down is making me a nervous wreck .I am going to thread you sent and read up on that .
astarda