Vitamin D & Fish oil?

[Boss302Fan]

peoplespharmacy.com/article...

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Trouble is - they are taking about supplementation for prophylaxis. Shutting the stable door after the proverbial horse as away down the road! Really can't say my 4000 IU vit D per day makes that much difference.

[Sharitone in reply to PMRpro]

Maybe it is preventing you from getting some more AI nasties!

[Seacat30 in reply to PMRpro]

I was on 4000 IU all through Covid to try to protect myself from that. It did not stop me getting PMR

[Boss302Fan in reply to Seacat30]

There are no guarantees whether you are talking about therapies, vaccines, meds or supplements. At best they cure, hope mainly they alleviate pain & suffering or at least mediate or enhance the body’s capability to deal with the issue, and worse can kill you (chemo probably has greatest risk). It all comes down to the damage the condition can cause versus the damage the treatment can cause and the associated risk. Statistics are great, but have to remember even the studies conducted over many years with very large data populations are still using a subset of the population and the result is a probability not a certainty. The larger the dataset, and better design of the study, then can expect a better correlation to true. First day of grad statistics course on the chalkboard was the question: “You think your data says What?” He projects on the screen a graph of data with the distribution curve superimposed. The datapoints looked like someone took a shotgun with #8 shot and hit a target, a bunch of times. The Professor says, “I can statistically produce a straight line through this data!”

Most of the course dealt with the danger of excluding data as outliers, multivariate analysis and the care that must be taken in identifying covariances and handling thereof.

Sorry, didn’t mean to lecture, it’s just extremely complicated everyones immune system isn’t as efficient as others. So generalizations like why get a vaccine when I can get Covid anyway or similar make me cringe. You didn’t say that, you indicated what didn’t work for you, just proves everyone’s response is different.

[Seacat30 in reply to Boss302Fan]

It might have protected me from Covid. I can't tell that.

[piglette]

Vitamin D and fish oil are probably two of the supplements I might take, as opposed to the myriads of supplements that cure your body of everything, keep you young and allow you to live to be 150!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

They are at least probably worth it - though I can't take fish oils anyway since I'm on anticoagulants anyway. And no doubt, fish oils plus pred could well lead to even worse bruising!!!!

[Mack100 in reply to PMRpro]

That's interesting, I was unaware of any potential adverse interaction by taking fish oil supplements with anticoagulants. I was prescribed Apixaban as an anticoagulant following an AF episode 5 months ago but I've been supplementing with Omega 3 fish oil for 25 years.I've done some digging and came up with this abstract:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/276...

which refers specifically to warfarin interaction with fish oil and may be reassuring to some.

On the subject of supplements I was advised by a cardiologist friend to supplement with magnesium taurate after my AF episode. Since then I've had no further AF but my dose of prednisolone is also lower, who knows?

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Mack100]

I use magnesium pidolate - a French/Italian favoured form. I can't say I have NO AF but it certainly helps a lot! This week the PMR has been flaring - I missed an evening dose of the magnesium and the following day I was far worse! Wish it wasn't so expensive - I'd try taking more!

[Viveka]

Logically though I guess not scientifically something shown to prevent AI disease may particularly help with conditions that burn out.

I am not taking algae supplements at the moment because I want to calm the IS down, also rattling with bone protection supplements; but I will eventually.