The Chiropractor told me my spine was not where it should be --no surprise; and that it would take many appointments for my back to heal and there to be no pain--no surprise.
I was expecting to hear lots of visits and long time healing because of my husbands back issues and the result of all the visits and the pain and the extended healing time. I decided that I would try using my oils to deal with the pain and speed the healing time. I had experienced accelerated healing already and my thoughts to myself were: "Why Not? Why can't I heal faster? If I don't experience faster healing, well there is always the chiropractic to fall back on.
I mentioned I wasn't using any pills to help the pain and he commented I must be in a lot of pain and asked how I was dealing with the pain. I told him about Deep Blue and Aroma Touch and a couple of other oils for pain. He seemed like he was just kind of listening and thinking...ooh--voodoo!
His reaction was what I was expecting. I bet you think you are going to do this but I have been in this business for a very long time and you won't heal that fast. You will be coming to me for a very long time; because he kept telling me I needed to come to him 3 times per week so he could help the healing. ---My husband did the whole go to the chiropractor 3 times a week and still has issues with his back. (Maybe I should treat his back too! )
When I got home, I started reading about what oils I could use to nip this injury in the bud. I have a book called Modern Essentials that I use to learn about how I can use my oil medicine cabinet. My goal was to find some way to blend my oils into one oil to make it faster and easier to apply; and then I wanted it to be all in one bottle; kind of like a "one stop shop".
I knew Lemongrass, Myrrh, Lavender, Frankincense, Cypress, White Fir, Cinnamon, Lime, Deep Blue, Marjoram, Wintergreen. I know this sounds like many oils. Not all of these went into my blend but I had learned oils are so adaptogenic or "smart", that I can have any of the listed oils in my blend.
I looked for anything that had that first common use as analgesic, then anti-inflammatory. From there I pulled out the oils in my bag that I found listed and looked at what the book said about them with my focus. I finally settled on 10 oils to put into my blend. They are: Peppermint, Wintergreen, Cypress, Lemongrass Marjoram, White Fir, Lavender, Lemon, Frankincense, Cinnamon.
I made sure they were oils that would bring oxygen to the tissues healing, helped with circulation, pain, helped enhance the use of other oils, lessened inflammation etc. All of these oils work very well doing most of these things but together they made a blend that was so powerful that my pain and healing began immediately.
I filled a page full of information about oils that I thought might affect my decision and characteristics of the oils that would help me know where to place them in the recipe. I studied about their properties and the blending technique that would be required. The ratios that needed to be in the blend so that the oils could all work synergistically together to affect the healing process and the time required to heal my body back to perfect. That was my goal---Complete healing and freedom from the pain, ache, soreness and discomfort.
Being a diabetic, I am very well versed about how long my body takes to heal from any kind of injury. I am counting time in weeks and months; like a few years ago when I got a simple infection from a piece of toenail that had snagged and broken and was just hanging off and I clipped it off. It got infected and I got 3 rounds of increasingly powerful antibiotics from my Dr. and the infection just would not go away. It just kept reinfecting. I got x-rays to make sure the infection hadn't spread to the bone. I am sure they would start checking my blood to make sure the bacteria hadn't spread....etc, etc, etc.
I decided I would use the blend I came up with Morning, Noon and Night and anytime I needed help with the pain because it was too intense to bear. At first I was using the oils every hour--just a few drops--if the pain was intense, I would use more drops. If the pain was less but annoying, I would use less drops. It was completely customizable to my situation. I wasn't worried about overdose or timing to make sure I took the correct amount at the right time so I didn't over dose.
I knew I wouldn't be able to overdose with this blend, and I could use it as much or as little as I wanted, and it would help with the pain. the first dose I used I got pain relief for 2 hours. I reapplied and got pain relief for 2 hours 15 min. and so on.
I was working up to only having to apply it in the morning before getting out of bed, sometime in the middle of the day and before bed at night.
Sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night in pain and I would just pull out my bottle of oil and apply 3-5 drops to my hand and rub in onto the area of my back that hurt.
At this time I also started to double and triple my intake of liquids. Oils use water to work effectively in the body and if there isn't enough water, I got dehydrated very quickly. I was up to a gallon and 1/2 a day.
My activity levels went down considerably--I didn't move for the first few days and just did what I felt I could do on any given day.
After about a week of this I needed another adjustment and went back to the doctor. He commented that I was looking really good and there wasn't very much adjustment needed and to come and see him again when I needed it. I visited him one more time after that and after that adjustment I wasn't hurting at all--the pain just wasn't there and I was able to walk really well. That was 2 weeks into my healing.
I had mentioned to a friend that I had shared oils with earlier that I expected it would take me 3 weeks to heal. At the 2 week mark, I was starting to wonder if what I had boasted would actually come true. I stepped up my application of the oils and added a little more to each application and that seemed to be the deciding factor.
At the 3 week mark--all of my pain was completely gone. I didn't ache, I didn't lose any flexibility--I felt back to normal--AWESOME! That is how I felt...AWESOME.
