Essential Oils

Good Afternoon fellow Lyme Warriors!

I wanted to share a really crazy experience I had this week.

I recently reconnected with a friend from high school. She is a doctor in the ER at our local hospital and her husband is a surgeon. Because, she states, she has no need for the extra money - as her and her husband are both well off - she spends her free time in an office downtown helping people feel better.

She invited me to come in - not knowing much about my symptoms. She had me hold this little white box that had two metal electrode things. As I held it, I watched a video on her phone. When the video was done, it provided me with a listing of all of the areas I needed work on and the oils that could help.

As she went down the list, she was asking me if I had certain symptoms (based on what she knew the oils helped with). She was SPOT on. Even down to knowing that I have had 0 sex drive with the Lyme.

Now, I am the FIRST person to question these sort of things. Especially since the oils she uses (and the Protandim she recommended) are all independant consultant sort of things (DoTerra, LiveVantage... etc) However, the fact that this test was SPOT on makes me wonder if this is legit.

She went through the list of all of the current supplements I was taking and basically told me 75% of them were doing NOTHING for me ... and may be making me worse.

At this point in my journey, I am willing to try ANYTHING. I haven't been able to get in to see a specialist and I feel like I'm flying blind with all of the herbals. Not to mention the $$ that I feel I am spending.

What are your thoughts!?!? Has anyone had luck with DoTerra oils? Has anyone tried Protandim? Chaga mushroom? etc... Looking for your feedback!

Also, I am happy to share the results of that test, as well. So that maybe some of you - with the same symptoms - might want to try this.

I love Young Living oils and have had many successes with oils in my life.

Here is my fav story. Hubby and I went on vacation. I caught a cold. We checked into a hotel that evening and I put Eucalyptus oil on my ankles and behind my ears and one drop on my chest.

The next morning when we woke up hubby was covered with flea bites and I was not. The hotel did not charge us for our room. The people before us had snuck in a dog into their room and hubby got bit. The oil kept the fleas off of me.

Oh, and I slept great, not stuffy and my cold was better.

I use high doses of essential oils for lyme - am I the only one here?
By high I mean up to 1ml of pure oils per day used topically. I learned a lot from local herbalists who makes essential oils dillutions for lyme and other hard to kill bacterias. EOs are proved to have very strong antimicrobal properties while doing no harm to the body. In recent months I've been using EOs to cure cold, flu and sinuses with very good results.
Expensive oils like doTerra are good but the price is pure ripoff, there are lots of European companies who have similar quality with prices like ten times lower. This becomes very important if you want to use high doses on daily basis - with doTerra oils it would cost you a fortune.
Such high doses of EOs are controversial as classical aromatherapy always recommends doses like few drops but based on research made by above mentioned herbalist this is not enough and much higher doses are necessary to kill lyme or chlamydia. Till now lots of people were using his dillutions with no side effects so such high doses are proved to be safe.
If anyone is interested I could write more details.

I don't use EO for treatment...I do use some in my epsom salt baths.

Lavender and marjoram for my nerve pain. There is a third..Helichrysum that I ran out of.

They can help a lot. Though, much like everything else, they're not perfect. But, the layers of the onion, remember? They might help with a few.

Use them topically with a carrier oil or in a diffuser being inhaled (haven't used this method much myself, but have heard some good things).

Gonna sound funny, because most caution against it, but I think internal use is overrated.

Are there any lyme specific essential oil protocols? What to apply topically and where, what to eat and when/how much etc?

Yeah, I've read that and the one it refers to... nothing really specific, like what oils affect B.b. the most, how to apply etc.

That's the best article I've found so far:
http://www.lyme-treatment.com/2014/05/working-with-essential-oils.html

LymeTrez,

Are you in the NYC area? I go to someone similar. No EO protocol but Bio resonance scanning and holding the two rods to see what works for the body. Also told a few supplements I had been taking were making me weaker.

It is interesting stuff.