My overall cholesterol is 225 down from 252 within a three month period of eating a diet high in fruits and veggies, lots of avocados, some chicken, no eggs and very little red meat. My HDL is 63, down from 86 but my LDL is now 144, up from 134. Recently i ve started having breast tenderness and had a mammogram which was totally clean. Can this breast tenderness be related to the cholesterol levels?