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I tried supplementing with various forms of omega-3. It took me a while to figure out the exact correlation, but as it turned out, too much EFA in general made
by chipsy 17y ago
I tried supplementing with various forms of omega-3. It took me a while to figure out the exact correlation, but as it turned out, too much EFA in general made my skin bruise and swell up readily. Hence, the days where I took fish oil and ate almonds and a salad with oily dressing would leave me literally crawling to do things by bedtime because my feet had become so unbelievably swollen.
I dropped the supplements pretty quickly, but was now hyperfocused on the swelling, because it still cropped up occasionally, and, I now realized, had done so for years, but in the past I had just written it off. It took another six months to figure out that vegetable oils - regardless of their ratio of EFA content - were the source of the swelling. Once I got rid of those, problem solved.
- jrockway 17y agoI have almost the opposite problem. When I forget to take fish oil for a few days, my skin becomes very dry and forms a weird rash near my elbows. Fish oil fixes the problem. (It is hard to correlate supplement consumption and wound healing, but this has happened enough for me to be somewhat convinced that it is true. I was introduced to fish oil to specifically to "treat" this condition.)
- bombs 17y agoVegetable oils and nut oils are primarily omega-6 and omega-9. This is why people take fish oil and other omega-3 supplements; it's much easier to get omega-6 and omega-9. I'm curious if your problems were caused by EFAs in general or a particular type of EFA, e.g. linoleic acid.