gD – Good find! I’m glad your consciousness is being raised about Omega-3.
Yes, the brain is largely composed of Omega-3!
Now, about information overload. Don’t rush yourself, but at this point, I don’t want to make an information summary because I don’t want to tell people what to do. This is too new. There are still too many unknowns. The facts for Omega-3 and SSRI w/d have not been established.
So, just do one or two posts a day. Skim or skip the ones that make your eyes glaze over. Read the ones that are interesting to you. But, it’s very important that you think about the information for yourself and form your own opinion. And it’s very good for your neurological healing for you to gently push yourself to learn things even if it’s challenging. Especially if it’s challenging! You can do it! You’re a researcher by temperament.
If you have a specific question, ask it here or in your Journal thread, and one of us will try to answer it.
Now – about your bottle of fish oil, gD. You are confusing ml (milliliters) with mg (milligrams). I had the same trouble over and over when I was tapering my last bit of Paxil by liquid.
The ml is the amount of liquid you’re taking. It is an irrelevant number content-wise. It just allows you to measure the amount, but it says nothing about what is *in* the amount of liquid.
The mg of EPA + DHA is what’s important to count.
1 ml of your liquid = 271 mg of EPA + DHA
10 ml of your liquid = 2,710 mg of EPA + DHA
So, when you take 1 ml of your liquid, it *contains* 271 mg of EPA + DHA.
When you take 10 ml of your liquid, it contains 2,710 mg of EPA + DHA.
You are currently taking 2,710 mg EPA + DHA.
If you double your daily intake to 20 ml, you will be taking a total of 5,420 mg of EPA + DHA.
1 teaspoon = about 5 ml.
I would *not* double my dose if I were you. I would go up by 1 teaspoon = 5 ml = 1355 mg. In fact, that’s a bigger updose than I really like. My ideal would be for you to go up by only about 500 mg (2 ml) if there were a way to do that. But, if not, give this a try, and then don’t go up for awhile.
It would be best for you to divide your dose into at least two and preferably three times in a day.
I’m going to copy this dosing info into your Journal thread so you have it there to for reference.
I am also going to copy it into a file I’m making to keep track of everyone’s benefits / side effects of updosing on Omega-3. So, let me know what you decide to do. Also, do me a favor and double check that it says 271 mg EPA + DHA per 1 ml. Also, let me know if you have any questions.
