I had my cholesterol checked in my 4th month on Atkins and the results really scared me. My Doctor and I had a fight about the statins he wanted to put me on. I changed Doctors and started taking Red Yeast Rice, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, CoQ10, L-Carnitine and L-Lysine.

I re-checked my lipids after two months with the new supplements (continuing with LC) and had dropped by almost 100 for the total... My new Doctor was very impressed and said he'd never seen any drop like that before.

before ---> after two months
Total: 340 --> 245
LDL: 264 --> 170
HDL: 64 --> 61
TG: 68 --> 54

Hang in there. There are alot of good LC books out there that help with this subject.

Good Luck.