Besides $$ cost(was $9/month; now $3/month), Vascepa is proving effective for me medically since my first off-label dose in April 2013. On the 1st day of 2019, I now have more than 5.5 years of follow-up experience, 4.5 years of which are best illustrated here:
I weighed ~ 156 lbs in 1956-7 when 1st diagnosed and treated for Type-1 diabetes. My highest weight since 1957 was 187 lbs for many years. At 81, my weight now has returned to 156-8 lbs, correlating with ~40% reduction in insulin I now inject each day(less insulin, less carbs ingested at evening meal; otherwise, my diet remains the same as that designed by the Evanston Hosp. and NWU School of Medicine in 1957 to maintain the ideal weight I then had at age 19). My health remains stable, and my risk from CVD remains optimally suppressed, all as described above.