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Fish oil for sore fingers and joints 22-Feb-2012 At 11:20:18 AM f_ladou

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Fish oil saved my life.

About one year after I started climbing (about 5 years ago, say), I started to have serious soreness in my fingers, both hands. To the point where I thought I would have to stop climbing completely. It was so bad that my hands could hardly open in the morning: they would ratchet up rather than open up. Terrible.

A colleague of mine who was into weight lifting (as in olympic weightlifting) told me that he cured very painful joint problems using fish oil. Serious amount though. Upon his recommendation, I started to take 3 capsules of 1000 mg with each meal (just so we are clear: 9 capsules per day). The effect started over a matter of days and it cured my pain completely over a period of very few weeks (in fact, I refrained to write down days instead of weeks but that's the impression it left with the passing of time).

Since then, I keep taking fish oil daily (2 capsules a day) and never experienced finger pain again.

Cheers, François