For many years, my cholesterol level was 199 and that was OK with the medical community.  Then one day, it went up to 201 and my doctor told me that I was going to die if I didn’t do something about it.  So, I went on medication.

The first medication made my muscles hurt and didn’t seem to lower my cholesterol.  So, my doctor changed my meds.  The next medication he gave me didn’t lower my cholesterol so he put me on a different one.  That medication didn’t work either so we went on to a fourth medication.

That medication lowered my cholesterol but it was expensive. So, my insurance company didn’t like paying for it.

Finally, one day, my insurance quite paying for it.  If I wanted it, I had to pay for it myself.  When I asked my doctor about it, he said that the cholesterol numbers no longer mattered as long as I was taking a cholesterol medication and gave me a prescription for a much cheaper medication.

Maybe I could skip taking the medication and just send the drug company a check every month.