Posted by kkris on August 28, 2003, at 18:47:24
In reply to Re: Fish oil made me worse!!! » linkadge, posted by Maximus on March 10, 2003, at 22:21:41
I have been on the fish oil for two weeks now and I feel worse too. Considerably worse. This is the first time since being off my meds that I've felt any significant stirs of my depression (anxiety, insomnia, horrible self-talk automatically playing inside my head). I feel so much better that I found I'm not the only one. I will stop taking it right now!
Sam-e, on the other hand, has been helping me to maintain my depression, sans antidepressants, for over two months now. Until the fish oil. Did everyone's worsening fish-oil depression stuff go away when they went off? And what does everyone think of Sam-e?
> > One thing was that I perviously raised my
> > fish oil dose to 6 g's Perhaps this pushed
> > me over the edge. I thought It was a mood
> > stabalizer?
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> Hi Link,
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> Last summer i wanted to reduce the dose of my meds and i tried fish oil. Result: I was WORSE with this bastard oil. I became very anxious and insomniac... I got off fish oil and rechallenged it. Same thing. The brand of oil was Jamieson Omega 3. The doses i've tried were: 500 mg, 1000 mg and 5000 mg of EPA.
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> So my point is, you are probably destabilized as i was with this stupid big horse's pills. So do you a favor and get off this nasty stuff. You have nothing to lose.
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> And for the main tread, yes you look like you shift rapidly BUT in the depression phase only, or almost. Your irritability and anger are probably part of your depression. Your "slowness" of the morning is another footprint of the depression. This is my opinion and it's worth what it's worth.
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> Good luck!
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> Max.
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