Amarin Corp Plc (AMRN)

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I don't believe half of those reviews are even real - no layperson writes something like this:

"After taking Vascepa or two months I have developed side effects of severe bilateral hip pain, buttock and leg pain."

Due to my long history of health problems, many musco-skeletal in nature, especially lower back and hips, I'm quite familiar with such terms because my various PTs use them all the time (posterior and anterior more common) - but if I had "bilateral hip pain" when I was seeing my chiro, I'd tell her "both of my hips hurt" - patients don't use that medical jargon because we weren't trained to speak in that manner.

The patients talking about having 100 lb legs, weak legs, etc. are also likely suffering from something I dealt with a couple months ago totally unrelated to V - after doing some heavy duty work on my deck, things my body wasn't used to doing, my legs felt so weak I had trouble climbing stairs. I feared I had lost so much muscle mass (this was shortly after I dropped 13 lbs due to gagging on pills and lack of appetite) that I had crippled myself from starvation. But that's not what happened - I saw a new PT-type masseuse, told her about the thigh muscle weakness, and she said "no wonder you can't lift your legs - your quads, hams, and IMT band muscles are so tight they can't contract any further" - they had basically gone into spasm and gotten stuck there from overuse. She worked on them and told me to use my heavy duty massage wand on my legs for a week, and sure enough, my legs went back to normal strength once the muscles relaxed.

Like you mentioned, many people don't understand the diff between correlation and causation.