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Fish oil experience--6 grams/day for 2 weeks

Posted by Chris O on March 2, 2005, at 18:18:45

I just wanted to share my experience with Carlson's fish oil. I've been taking 4 teaspoons of their liquid product every day for the past two weeks. Unlike Omegabrite, which I think I was taking at too small a dose, the 6 gram dose definitey had a noticeable effect on me. However, I can't say that it was overall positive. Effects that I noticed:

* Slightly improved sleep. Slept for longer periods of time in general.
* More vivid dreams and dreams which seem to last longer, or a stronger memory of my dreams.
* Some improvement in physical anxiety symtoms. I often feel my GAD symptoms as pain in my body, and the fish definitely decreased that. This has been the best, most positive aspect of the fish oil for me.
* A foggy, cognitively blurred feeling in my head.
Just felt/feel like I can't concentrate or something is "wrong."
* Increased anxiety/panic. Oddly, while my physicalized anxiety decreased with the fish oil, my overall sense of, panic, or, "something's wrong," increased.
* A relatively non-help for my OCD symptoms. In some ways, perhaps increased them because my panic was increased, so I kept trying to figure out "what is wrong, what is wrong."

If I stop the fish oil, these feelings go away relatively quickly, within a day. On the basis of this experience, I don't think high dose fish oil is the best treatment for my OCD and GAD. The negatives definitely outweigh the positives.

Chris


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