Fish Oil and ESR

One of the markers that has always given my doctors a hard time is sedimentation rate.  It's always low in my case.  When my flare worsened in the fall and winter, I was having 12-15 bms per day, bleeding profusely, fevers, not able to eat -- you all know the drill.  Still, my sed rate was low.  It leaves my regular docs scratching their heads, and it lead one specialist to doubt anything was wrong at all. . . .

I've taken about 3,000 mgs fish oil a day for years (and I eat a largely vegetarian diet).  I recently read a study that gave fish oil to arthritis patients and measured sed rates before and after.  Their sed rates went down.  I'm wondering if fish oil might lower sed rate but not improve GI symptoms.

Anyone have something similar going on?  Any thoughts?

My sed rate had always been rock bottom even during the most vicious flares. In fact, during some flares even my CRP is not elevated outside of the reference range (although in most flares it does get bumped beyond reference). I take fish oil on and off (Fisol brand to be exact) and can't say I've ever noticed any difference, but I take it for general health.