You are the voice of reason. I was watching football at a bar on Sunday when a man in his '70s sat next to me. He mentioned some of his ailments, including diabetes. I suggested he take Vascepa. He said he used to but his doctors eventually took him off of it because it's a blood thinner, which is something I think I heard from my own cardiologist at one point. And I've heard the "eat more fish" mantra too. The reasons doctors find to exclude Vascepa are many even before we get to the insurance issues, which is usually the biggest obstruction.
Skipperdog11, I agree with the Docs advising eating more fish. That has been discussed many times here in the past about how much fish an individual would have to eat to get enough fish oil to provide any benefit. It's just that fish is probably better than some of the other meats we eat. Ironically I was watching Mountain Men the other day and one of these individuals went fishing to catch 10-15 large walleye. He then boiled the fish and scooped off the unrefined fish oil. His yield was approximately 1 cup of unpurified fish oil which had a strong smell and he used to put on his bait on his traps to help lure the prey. So I laughed and thought about the generics being an inferior product to V.