Testing Cinnamon

After researching the benefits of cinnamon on cholesterol and blood pressure, and having high blood pressure (I take Diovan) and high cholesterol despite leading a fairly active lifestyle, reasonable weight, and eating pretty well, and since the good doctor gave me a prescription for Zocor, I thought I'd give cinnamon a try.

I purchased several bottles of 600 mg cinnamon tablets. I take two in the morning and two at night, for a total for 2400 mg per day. I've been taking it for a week on this regimen.

My normal blood pressure with Diovan is in the neighborhood of 115/75, which is good. So far preliminary blood pressure readings have been in that range. Today's reading was 114/63. One person on the Internet claims that with cinnamon plus Diovan their blood pressure dropped low enough to cause them some problems so I'm monitoring it closely.

I'm going to take it for two months until my supply is gone, keep my diet etc the same, then go to the doctor to have my cholesterol checked. I'm comfortable with the Diovan, but I'm a little leery of adding Zocor on top of it. My latest cholesterol reading with fasting and eating oatmeal every morning was total 258 LDL 190 tri 115. Will keep you posted.