I decided to try a 1,000 mg fish oil supplement recently and have had no issues using it so far. I’m glad I’m able to use something mainstream that I can find just about anywhere rather than something more proprietary that’s harder to find. It’s also a lot less expensive than the combination omega supplements that I’d been using.
For several years, I’d been using the Wild Alaskan Salmon Oil supplement sold by Sundown Nutrition. It was advertised as a “complete omega” supplement and had the amounts of several types of omega fatty acids listed on its label. I bought it at my local CVS, but not long ago, when I went to purchase another bottle, I didn’t see any on the shelf. I bought a 3-6-9 supplement sold by the same company. I’d used supplements like that in the past and didn’t have any issues with them. However, I could not really find anywhere else locally that carried a supplement like this. It was at that point that I began reconsidering ordinary fish oil supplements because they were cheaper and more readily available.
For a long time, I thought I could not take regular fish oil supplements. When I had the reaction to flaxseed, I decided to try a regular fish oil supplement because the 3-6-9 one that I’d been using had flaxseed oil in it. I was also dealing with chronic insomnia issues at that same time, and I thought the fish oil supplement was somehow contributing to them. I had started the fish oil supplement right before a family vacation. I slept fine while on vacation but began having problems again after we got back. I later found out it was due to electronics that were close to the head of my bed. Before I discovered the issue with the electronics, I’d found an alternative combination omega supplement without flaxseed oil, similar to this one, so I didn’t feel the need to consider the fish oil supplement again. Later, when I could not find the combination omega supplement that I’d been taking at the store, I picked up something else, something very much like this one. I felt a lot worse on this one and ended up ordering something I could use online. At that point, I had concluded that regular fish oil didn’t work for me and that I would have to use a combination omega supplement.
When I decided to begin looking into fish oil again, I tried to think hard about the times I thought it was negatively affecting me. I thought back to the family vacation and how I later discovered that electronics were the main things negatively impacting my sleep at that time. Was the fish oil I was taking then actually fine, and did I just mistake that as a cause of my insomnia? I then thought about the supplement I tried later. What I realized is that was a different type of supplement, an “omega 3 supplement from fish oil” rather than just a fish oil supplement. The two are labeled differently and have differing amounts of omega 3 fatty acids. 
The fish oil supplement I’m currently taking is labeled as a 1,000 mg fish oil concentrate providing 300 mg of omega 3 fatty acids per softgel. The omega 3 supplement linked above has 640 mg per softgel, and the label just states total omega 3s. I wondered if it even had any of the other omega fatty acids. I figured the fish oil supplement most likely did. It was probably more similar to the Wild Alaskan Salmon Oil supplement than I realized. With these thoughts in mind, I decided to try a fish oil supplement that I could purchase at my grocery store. It was about $25 cheaper than the 3-6-9 supplement that I had bought at CVS and for the same number of softgels. I believe the cost difference between it and the Wild Alaskan Salmon Oil is even greater.
It’s been probably over a month since I started taking the fish oil supplement, and I’ve felt fine. It doesn’t seem to be working any better or worse than what I had been using, and it hasn’t caused the side effects that the high-dose omega 3 supplement caused. I’m very happy that I can just use regular fish oil and won’t have to try to figure out where to find a more proprietary supplement that is not as readily available and is more expensive.
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