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Tasty
Hopefully Judge Du will be made aware of the fact that in India (Dr. Reddy's home), in order to get a drug approved your study has to have been conducted on a native population of Indian nationals...….
Good Luck with Taylor!!
g50
jfmcrr
The reference in the Canadian press release was about HLS not
Amarin.
G50
Tasty
I am not a lawyer but am wondering....all of the arguments on this board seem to avoid/not comment on one aspect which I believe is central. The importance of "prosecutorial discretion"
would seem to be of prime importance. Do any of our learned legal analysts have a reading on our judge?
How does she feel about generics using legal gymnastics in order to benefit off the work of AMRN and others? Does she have a track record in this regard?
G50
rafun: I would additionally direct your attention to some of the posts we have seen....I remember one from Sam?....patients who have gone on Vascepa and are proud and amazed at their blood test results. Do we REALLY think these people are going to stop taking the medicine that brought them such incredible results.
I don't think so.....
G50
BB As implausible and "conspiracy theory" as it might sound, I would put NOTHING past MRC. After all, in his attempts to confound AMRN, MRC invoked a study from 1981 which involved MICE??? Does it get any more desperate than that?
G50
fair enough Cal!
G50
Cal One of the great things about this board is the fact that you get exposed to an amazing and diverse group of people. It is like a great book that you cannot put down...where else can you go to learn so much from so many?
As regards MY experiences....let us just say that life is all about the journey. In the world of international business (in my experience), people come and go....much is hidden (and forgotten),
……….but lessons are learned. You will have to learn these lessons
by experience. Also, some of my stories have been put away for good.(I was once told by a government official...."be careful who you tell those stories to"...)Life is amazing. As you experience your career I will only say "be careful", in this regard, thanks for your interest but I will take my own advice and remain silent about the "good
old days".....
Best wishes
G50
Hi Mike,
It has been 10 days since I had my operation and I am feeling very good. I had a sore throat from the breathing tube. That lasted for about three days. I had very annoying headaches which started on day three and lasted for about four days.
I REALLY pray that you make a decision on this issue, my initial reaction was to think/quess/hope that it would somehow go away.
A year of putting it off proved fruitless...it was what it was.
What decided it for me was my meeting with the surgeon who actually was going to perform the surgery and the recommendations from my cardiologist. The surgeon had performed this operation for several decades and had never lost a patient. This is a better record than doctors who do common surgery but loose patients from errors in anastesha.
In the end it is your choice and do not be swayed by my experience or by advice from someone on the internet. When I posted my experience on this board one of the first responses I got was a link to a site which cautioned against arterial imaging. It argued that imaging causes more problems than it solves. Well, in my case if I had taken that advice, I would not have had the surgery and quite possibly would not be here now.
If my initial post has helped you to put this issue forward in your mind, I am very pleased and believe you will do whatever you need to do in order to move forward.
Everyone on this board will be pulling for you regardless of your choice!
Regards
G50
Tasty...protecting your turf is an old and predicable human condition. I saw a lot of this in a previous life when I was in the international commercial construction industry. It was UNBELIEVABLE the lengths to which people would go to keep out new comers. In addition, locals everywhere have their own rules and customs which determine whether or not you can succeed at any level in a new area. In construction (in my days) there were things you had to do that were illegal (by American standards)
just to talk to the person who made the decision.
I recall the afternoon that I spent with a local (fixer) and the
vice president of a European nation, in which the government leader told me what price the government would pay for my multimillion dollar contract and how much (2%) he would personally need as a "finders fee" and how the finders fee would be paid in order to keep the transaction "private".
Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal....They all have different languages ….but in another manner ….they all speak the same language...$$$
FDA approvals, cholesterol, trigs, labels,....I try to imagine a group of sales people being set loose on the Europe market, the India market, the Chinese market, South America....WOW! We will all be dead and buried before these new sales people are able to fully market a product which REALLY should sell itself.
By the way....If your recent picture of Mrs. Tasty is real...send her to me and I will send you the dog of your choice....!
Hi sts66
Yes, I had a stress test. Every year my cardiologist wants to see progress, expects to see progress, and if he doesn't he starts to ask questions. He also monitors my meds and will change them as new or more appropriate offerings become available.
I have no experience with other cardiologists and so I have no way of comparing my guy against other cardio guys, but I am scheduled to meet with him in January for a post-op discussion
and my only question at this point is "should I bring him flowers or candy.....?"
Best Wishes and thanks for your interest
G50
A BP who is looking at AMRN would also be in the position of realizing many of Vascepa's possible uses in other combinations or applications. Additionally, think of the unbelievable maze of graft, corruption, complexity and such which would have to be discovered and dealt with by AMRN in order to successfully penetrate markets in India, Asia, South America....Major BP has experience and connections in place. In each of these markets there is likely an MRC who would be ready to make a buck fighting against AMRN.
BP would know these people/organizations.....a would be attack entity would take on an AMRN but would think twice about taking on a Major BP.
Cardio Candy....Liquid Stent....?
bfost Thanks for well wishes
I know that this board is populated by minds much more medically knowledgeable than me. It is humbling...
I will simply encourage my friends and family to get "checked out" for the possibility of plaque in their bloodstream. Younger ones in my family don't even get an annual checkup. They ASSUME
they are young and fit and don't have to worry. My message to them will be "ask your doctor about this!"
Again thanks for your words
G50
sts66 Thanks for the question and your positive work/comments on this board.
What prompted the scan prior to surgery was my annual
heart exam. My cardiologist noticed a 5% reduction in my heart function. He seemed at a loss to explain this and so, he put a stethoscope to each side of my neck and heard a difference. This caused him to have me get an "echogram?", which indicated to him the possibility of a blockage. This in turn caused him to order a more thorough imaging scan which produced evidence of the inescapable truth...….80% blockage in the right carotid and 40% in the left. My cardiologist referred me to a vascular surgeon.
I did not call him. The day that I got the referral my insurance gal came to our house for the annual renewal event. Almost the first thing out of her mouth was the statement that she was feeling very sad because that morning, one of her closest friends had gone under the knife for carotid surgery and died...…
I took this as an omen and decided to put off the call to the vascular surgeon. One year passed and I went for my annual cardiac appointment. My doctor remarked that he had not heard that I had followed through on his referral. I told him of my concerns and he said, "Well, let's see if it has gotten any worse!" And so, another imaging scan...…...this time (one year later) it is 85%.....! All the while I have been feeling just fine...no pains, no fainting, no dizziness, vitals fine, blood pressure fine...….I am 6 foot one and a half....172 lbs.
At this point it doesn't take courage...it takes brains. Anyone can see where this is going.
And so, 6 weeks after the last scan, I find myself in an O.R.
that looks like the control room of the Death Star. The surgeon told me that I was his final operation (he was retiring after my surgery)….he had been doing this operation for decades.
And so, after the operation my surgeon reported that I had had
95% blockage! After going through these things it is hard to NOT develop a belief in God! Someone has decided that there is still need for me to be around!
I am encouraging my family and friends to take a moment to get an imaging scan...…..but for a few moments, I would not be typing this note. Hopefully, someone will read this and be moved to get checked out...…...by the way, my pre-op bad cholesterol was 115.....my trigs were 123...…...I was not a likely candidate for this blockage. After the surgery, the surgeon told me that carotid blockage remains something of a mystery. He went on to talk about "differential flow rates and resulting unpredictable turbulence within the bloodstream".....He congratulated me and retired!
Best to all
G50
Jesse...you are one of the wizards of this board.
Per your story (and my experience), AMRN is about life and death!
Keep up your streams of wisdom and comfort, people will benefit
in health and finance.
Zip...you are correct sir! I love this board which seems populated with an outstanding group of people. My future will be
with V as a medicine and a stock.
It was the right carotid artery...I told the surgeon to just knock me out, don't explain what you're going to do and wake me up when it's over....this surgeon has been doing this operation since 1978 and had never lost a patient. He swore I would not be his first!
My cardiologist asked me to go through an imaging procedure
which is like a holographic xray. This imaging showed an 80% blockage in my right carodic artery. I figured that if I had the surgery I would have a 97% chance of a long life. If I did not have the surgery, I would have a 0% chance of a long life...evidently, I made the right choice because by the time I had the surgery, the blockage had increased to 95%. My son-in-law's father said no to this operation a couple of years ago....he spends his waking hours in a wheel chair trying to squeeze a rubber ball. My other son-in-law's father was dead before his body hit the floor. Now, that ain't gonna happen to me!
Last week I had a "Carotid Endartectomy w/ EEG" on the right side of my neck. I was very apprehensive about the operation (I was told that 3% of people who have this operation don't survive. Thank God I did. And so, my interest in V is more than just academic or 'ALL ABOUT THE STOCK". It is personal. I have been watching and slowly building a position in AMRN for about a year.
There are a lot of posts from people who claim to be longs. But the are not my idea of a long. They simply have a LONG history of taking advantage of AMRN's ups and downs.
Being a retired stock broker, I would caution those who get in and out about another stock (named after a favorite fruit) which was selling for $4.00 a share in 2004. I had a client who sold his 10,000 shares in 2010 for $43.00 a share. Of course, the rest is history...…..the stock went to $700.00 a share and then had a 7 for 1 stock split...…..and those shares today are flirting with the $300.00 a share mark.
The fruit stock had something nobody saw at the time...…..it had something that NOBODY else had...….AMRN has something nobody else has...…..in the famous recent words of the CEO...…."IT WORKS!"
Hold on longs...this will turn out just fine because...…"IT WORKS!"