Helloo Mrs D,

Yes! I was very happy indeed the nodes were painful; I'd take painful ones any day over the painless kind...!

My internist actually recommended the high EPA capsules. He wants me to get off spironolactone at some point that is doing a dual job as it were, keeping potassium levels up and regulating hormones a little because after the cytoxan a couple of years ago they've been a little wacky. Apparently I can take a potassium supplement for the hypokalemia if I go off spironolactone but hormones would be a little tricky as I'm prone to clotting and so we can't go down that route. He said fish oils and EPA especially can helps hormone regulation a little bit, so that was the main reason there... Toning down inflammation would be a nice "side-effect" of EPA too, though the scig is doing a very good job at that so far so that's good!!

I've never had chicken pox and actually haven't even been vaccinated against it. Wouldn't one get some sort of skin eruption with chicken pox or shingles though? Or can that appear a few days after initial onset of symptoms?

What you say about the allergic response makes sense! Oddly enough I took 200mg ibuprofen yesterday and the swelling went down about 50% within an hour, so I don't know what, if anything, that means or hints at... I did start the zithromax in any case and didn't take my fish capsule yesterday and I shall re-start it in a month!

Thanks so much for the reply and for the information!

Ziggy