Replies to post #112684 on Amarin Corp Plc (AMRN)

[mrmainstreet]

You wish us "chumps" luck? Just want to be clear.

[kvenne]

Ralphy you are certainly entitled to your point of view and I am to assume you do not prescribe Vascepa to your patients any longer. So we are supposed to take your expert advice of one and sell this sinking ship but there is a problem with your logic. There are many of us here who are having great results on Vascepa as well as loved ones. Also I just can't get over the fact the prescriptions just keep growing and being prescribed by more doctors everyday, ahh but what do they all know compared to the great ralphy and his plentiful 300 patient experiences which now does not seem to be impressive enough and has grown to 8000.

Also the the coin has two sides and if you were confident in your conviction you wouldn't have to keep posting your already known point of view.

One more point thanks for sharing your inside information on how the trial is turning out it is always great to hear from people in the know.

Best of luck to you in your practice and future investments.

[jessellivermore]

Ralphie...

I don't know if you are a family practitioner or not..But one thing seems peculiar and another goes directly against my experience...

Why would you treat 300 patients (4% of the R-I enrollment) with a drug that was expensive and had little effect on the patients... If my math is correct you were getting about 50% reductions on your scripts so actually you wrote scripts for over 600 patients about 8% of R-I, and all this for a drug which did little for the patients...

That's pretty incredible....

I was prescribing the drug for indications that had virtually nothing to do with trig lowering....The science was very airtight (IMO) and I put myself on it when it first hit the market...I had no history of CVD and was not at any special risk...One of the things I noticed right away was my DES which was worse in the right eye and was a big problem because I needed to stop surgical procedures and put in eye drops..I posted that and there was the anticipated skepticism on the board...but before long others were saying the same thing...My mood improved..I was not manic...but I have always suffered from negative imagination which means worrying about the worst possible outcome, from any event...and Vascepa has been a big help in avoiding "worry days".

I have seen Vascepa do amazing things in a number of clinical situations which include diseases like scleroderma, an inflammatory condition which currently has no good treatment...Noted changes in patients with chronic COPD who were O2 dependent...enough to lower their O2 dependency.. Vascepa speeds post operative recovery after surgey by limiting the damage done by ischemia and speeding up tissue recovery...And none of these are published in the medical literature...

This was all noted in slightly over 100 patients I put on Vascepa...It is amazing that your experience is so different than mine...

":>) JL

[Hspooner]

"Vascepa does not lower trigs very well - actually its rather dismal and insurance coverage is ridiculous and if OTC provides the same benefit - why not use it - as a matter of fact that is what most of the cardiologists are saying to patients - get OTC Omega 3"

So you fought with insurance companies to put 300 patients on a medication that doesn't work very well. Hmmmm... sign me up I want you to be my doctor!!