My name is Bonnie Prestin. My husband, William Prestin dob 8/12/65 is a normally healthy, formerly active and physically fit 44 year old man, 6 feet tall weighing about 200 pounds.

He’s always had a few (10 or less) lipomas which grow for years and unless they irritated him he just ignored them. He did have some on his left flank cut out in October 2008 here in Saginaw, MI by Dr. Shaheen.

In December 2009 (about 5 or 6 weeks ago) he started to get many tiny lumps like peas under his skin. He’s gotten about 200+ of them so far. They’re appearing on his arms, trunk, chest, back and thighs. These lumps are painful and they are multiplying rapidly and they’re growing. He had a core biopsy of one on his arm by my dermatologist, Dr. Gaffney, in Flint, Michigan a few weeks ago and the findings by the U of M were “angiolipoma” for that lump. This past week he had one removed by Dr. Shaheen in Saginaw. The biopsy isn’t back yet. It turned out not to be one, but two that were connected and about the size of a golf ball. No one expected that.

This is really affecting our lives. Bill used to be very active and able. Now he’s so tired he can hardly do anything. It’s very discouraging. It’s difficult to sleep because no matter which way he lays in bed it hurts.

At this rate, Bill’s going to have to have surgery every few weeks just to get all these things taken out. I’ve been reading about extended subcutaneous lipectomy – where a German hospital took out about 570 lipomas from one man and 240 from another in one operation with one incision. I’ve attached the abstract to this email (below). I’ve also just found information about ultrasonic liposuction and think that might be a useful technique to use on Bill.

We would like to know what’s causing this and how to make it stop, but failing that, we need to know how to proceed. Have you any thoughts as to fish oil helping him? Any thoughts about the situation and what it might be?

Thank you for your time.

Bonnie Prestin

I have a 15 year old son who has adhd/pdd and I have tried many things. For the past 3 months, I have been giving him 2 capsules every morning after breakfast, Dr. Mercola’s Krill Oil plus L-theanine which you probably know is an amino acid found in green tea. This helps with anxiety. So far it has helped him. He is calmer and his focus has gotten better. Is there any interaction with the L-theanine combined with krill oil?

Shouldn’t be.

We will be offering it again shortly. We had to resupply. One of the projects I’ve been working on is trying to figure out which of all the krill oil products are the best. I had assumed that krill oil was krill oil. Turns out, though, that this isn’t the case. All krill oils are not the same. I, myself, have been taking the one we sold on our site because it was less expensive than others. I’ve come to the conclusion that the krill oil produced by Neptune Technologies is the best overall for a number of reasons having to do with how the oil is extracted and processed, which I’ll describe in a lengthy blog post in due course. We have located a supplier (Neptune sells only to wholesalers) and have made an order. As soon as we get product, it will be back up. It ill be more expensive than the other, but I’ve found with krill oil that you get what you pay for.

Also ordered Malcolm Kendrick’s book on your recommendation so look forward to reading that too! Had an interesting evening – thank you.

June

Welcome aboard. I’m glad you’re enjoying the blog.

I don’t know if the improvement in the hs-CRP is the result of the krill oil or cutting out the GLA or some other factor. Nothing else has changed in the six months since I cut out GLA and added krill oil. I’m not going to quit taking the krill oil to test the possibility, though. 5.6 is not a great number, so I’m looking to see what else I can do to bring it down. Suggestions would be much appreciated — the GLA advice you gave was right on the money.

Sarah

You might want to add some circumin and some vitamin D3.