Taking Red Yeast Rice and time released Niacin - High Cholesterol Message Board

Arizona77 · 08-22-2007, 12:25 AM

Hello everyone! I would like to add 500mg time released Niacin in the evening. I found a product from Carlson's called "Niacin time".They are an outstanding company and I take many of their products Their time released Niacin is designed to be released 5 to 7 hours. I was wondering if anyone would suggest me adding this to my Redy Yeast Rice? My HDL right now is 42 as of my test a week ago. I want to raise it higher as I am almost borderline having 40 being minimal good range. I am just very concerned overloading my liver taking 1,200mg RYR twice daily and adding 500mg time released niacin. Any comments of suggestions would most greatly be appreciated. Thank you very much!

Gooney · 08-23-2007, 06:38 PM

I tried red yeast rice and it did nothing for me. Tried 10 mg Lipitor and all of my muscles painfullly locked up. Took a year to recover. After four years, tried again, and Im on 80 mg Lescol XL which reduced my LDL from 308 to 103. I tried 500 mg no flush time release niacin from Wallys mart twice a day. It lowered my LDL another 10 points to 93, raised my HDL only from 39 to 40. This greatly improved my ratio though. So I dont know if the RYR is helping you, but the niacin only helped my LDL.. so Im going to stay on it.