LEMONDROPPERS are not salesmen. So no one said to me, "Hey, I'm selling this product that you need to try." I found out about essential oils after a variety of events and I think each step of that is important to explain how I got to where I am today.
Part one: I am sick.
I am very sick. I don't have cancer (luckily!) but I do have a series of nervous systems disorders all stemming from a genetic mitochondrial disorder. I realize that was a lot of words, so simply, my brain does not work. And by doesn't work I do not mean in the "I can't do math" kind of way (I am killer at adding 2+2). My brain has a hard time regulating simple things like my heart rate, or how much I am supposed to sweat. Also my nerves, the little dudes who tell you things like "This is hot" or "Ouch" like to die and put me in a lot of pain. This has caused me to develop multiple syndromes. I won't go into those, but because everything is so complicated, there are not a lot of ways to treat it. We can sometimes treat the symptoms, but usually medications only work for so long, or things get worse. This leads to part two of my journey.
Part two: I have wonderful friends.
One of my very best friends is constantly looking out for me, and I her. I like to think that we are the kind of friends who sixty years from now are going to be living together after our husbands die (edit: or as she says, "We'll being living together even with our husbands still living with them on the couch.")
Part three: She has friends.
Her friend introduced her to essential oils.
Part four: They worked!
She found success in the oils. I took her claims seriously because she is not the type of person to get wrapped up in weird hippy stuff (Please don't take offense as I am the type of person to get wrapped up in weird hippy stuff.) She told me about how Valor worked on my precious godson. She showed me her stretch-mark cream results. I'd show you the pictures but she would probably kill me. She took me to an oils class where I was given free samples. These oils actually worked. And better yet no one tried to sell me anything. They told me what I could buy, yes, but they never pressured me. No one told me if I bought it I'd have to do any selling, something I did NOT want to do (ha ha ha.)
Part five: They really worked for me and I wanted to share that with others.
I personally feel better. I'm taking less medication. I'm off of my sleep medication. Due to my illness without my sleep medication I would sometimes go weeks getting four hours of sleep per week. I have not been able to go without it, but NOW I can. Occasionally I need to take it, but I have never been so happy. I've lessened the amount of prescription pain medication I have had to take. For the medication I am on I was on the highest dose that they give patients. Often I would have to take that amount. Now I often go days without needing to take it at all. As a person with one of the most painful illnesses known to science, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome or Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, this is a miracle. I've also gotten off of my anti-nausea medication. Peppermint has helped me tremendously there. Only rarely do I need to take it.
I never would say that these oils can replace western medicine, but I understand why the Cleveland Clinic and nearly thirty other hospitals recommend them. If you have an illness you should always continue your medication and consult your doctor, but it's worth a try, even if it just helps. I know when you are really sick just finding something that helps can be a miracle.
Anyway, that's how I got here. That's why I am trying to help people learn about essential oils and what they can do. I'm not saying they are a cure, but if it can ease anyone's suffering, or make anyone's life a little easier, healthier, better, then I think I am doing a good thing.
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