[Everything doTERRA] So far, disappointed. Need help

I can hear the frustration in your voice- I'm sorry it hasn't gone like you had hoped. I've only been using the oils since April, but we have the same health concerns and the oils have been a miracle for our family. A couple of things to consider: you have just started using them, so I wouldn't discount them yet, and it can take some trial and error to see which oils work best for each person and their individual body chemistry and needs. My boys have severe asthma and allergies: my prevention is as follows: daily (sometimes 2x) a capsule of 2 drops each: lemon, lavender and peppermint, and melaleuca. Or we have a lemon-lavender-peppermint-Fractionated coconut oil-in a roller bottle that I roll on the bottom of their feet. If I hear an "attack" coming I apply Breathe, lime and Frankinsence to their chest, upper back and bottom of the feet. I will also diffuse the three oils in the room they are in and place them next to the diffuser. This has worked very well. Sometimes I will have to re-apply the oils, if after 5-10 minutes their is no improvement. I am not afraid to give them a "breathing treatment" but we really haven't needed to do that very often since starting the above protocol.

Regarding the migraines. I have severe migraines and have been attending a special headache clinic for 5 years-getting Botox injections in my neck, skull and upper back. We were planning to fly to Canada to see a dr. And get a Vegas nerve stimulator to help me, but then I started the oils...
It did not happen overnight, but I don't remember my last migraine! I take the full dose of LLV daily along with DDR (just added that). I use a lot of the anti inflammatory oils topically on my neck and shoulders (lemongrass,wintergreen, Frank, etc). past Tense quite frequently too. Using one drop of Frankinsence under my tongue or on the roof of my mouth never helped me, one day I was desperate and I put probably 8-10 drops of Frank in a veggie cap and took it. That was the beginning of the end of the migraines. That capsule knocked out a migraine in less than 30 min. I began to take the Frank capsule 2 x daily for prevention. Slowly but surely the migraines decreased in frequency, intensity and duration. Then they just stopped coming back. Some days I feel so good I forget to take the Frank or roll on the past tense. There were times when I would get a 2-3 day migraine. I would take the Frank capsules, sometimes 4 times a day and I could feel it "beating it back" but then I would have to take a pain pill ( I was too chicken to take the morphine bomb internally with the wintergreen-but now that I know a bit more I would try it if needed). Anyway, it seems like those days are long gone now. I think I was a severe case and it just took longer to get my body in a good place. If 5 years of specialists and clinics couldn't help me, I think it was reasonable to give the oils a couple of months to help.

I also want to talk about your using the LLV and why you are not using full strength, and why after a week you want to return it-BUT I already gave you a lot of thoughts to digest. I will say I was taking 16 supplements (bottles) a day as recommended by my neuro and family doc. They did not help-but the LLV has-my doctors investigated the LLV and were are all for my changing.

I would encourage you to take it one "ailment" at a time. I did not get immediate success with my migraines and if I hadn't seen the dramatic results with my boys asthma and allergies-I would have given up on the oils for myself. It sounds like a cold/virus may have been coming out of your system already-and that is a whole different discussion. It also may be that the "Breathe" vapors is irritating your kids airway-causing them to cough. You may want to dry diluting one drop with Fractionated coconut oil and putting it only on the back or feet. Instead of doing it straight (if you are-don't know) and diffusing. This is powerful stuff. I can forget because we are not very sensitive ourselves but some people are and we just have to back off and go in slowly.
I hate that you all are suffering so-I want to encourage you to keep trying, but take it slowly and deal with one issue at a time. Best of luck to you and your family.
Beth

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