Received today for first time, left a robo message as described above...No one in our household has ever taken the drug in question, so why they are calling us is not clear. Could be a scam, probably is a scam, to get info from you.
However, the fact is that these drugs that were recently approved to be an "improvement" over the Coumadin that has been in use for fifty years, do have hidden booby traps. I understand that there is not a way to reverse their blood thinning effect, so that somebody who is injured or needs emergency surgery may experience unsafe bleeding levels. Coumadin (rat poison -- in higher doses it causes internal bleeding, and has been used to kill rodents in that manner) can be reversed with an injection of Vitamin K. Less serious elevations in the INR can be reversed with a cup of spinach or kale. It is a royal pain in the butt to be on Coumadin (warfarin), because of the way it interacts with food, making some of the most nutritious foods problematic, but the thinking is that persons with atrial fibrillation would have strokes without it. Still, I think it is better than these new (and much more expensive) drugs that have no antidote. I cannot imagine how the FDA could approve a drug that makes people bleed, and has no antidote. But then they have approved a lot of dangerous and damaging drugs. Remember: it is taking your life in your hands to agree to swallow ANY drug that has not been on the market for at least ten years, in my opinion. I know Big Pharma's marketers do not agree, but they get the $$$$$s and we get the damage/death.
Anyway, these pest calls from "Market Place" i n Pittsburgh are working from something that exists in the real world, even if their calls are best ignored.