Ask your Doc about Niacin and Omega-3.
I asked my Doc to take me off of statins (I was going nuts) so she started me on Niacin and Omega-3 with an EPA of 420 mg and DHA of 300 - this ratio is important - not the stuff in health food stores.
Blood work a month later showed me lower than while on the statin. The Niacin flush can be lessened or eliminated by taking it with food.
I take 1000mg with no flush. One asperin 45 min prior stops all nasty effects.
GNC sells a no flush niacin. I take that with Zocor/now a generic and the highest omega-3 I can find. I take breaks from the Zocor sometimes. But my cholesterol went fron 247 to the 160-180 range. However my bad cholesterol is still too high and the good still too low. And my triglycerides are too high.