Most pleasant period of my life

I can't believe I'm talking about this, but since it's made such a difference for me I would feel bad if I could help someone else and didn't just because I was too embarrassed to talk about my cycle I would feel guilty. Ever since I started my period at age 12 I have had very heavy periods riddled with cramps and moodiness. When I was younger the pain was so bad that Advil and Tylenol wouldn't cut it, I'd miss a day of school per month just because I was in such bad pain and couldn't function. 

When I was around 18 or 19 my doctor decided to put me on hormonal birth control (the pill) to help regulate my periods. They were successful in helping with my moodiness and made my cycles less heavy. They also decreased my cramps (but I did still need at least a Tylenol to get through the day) and I stayed on the pill for a decade. 

In September of 2013 I started experiencing shortness of breath for no apparent reasons. It didn't feel wheezy like my asthma did and would hit me at weird times, like when I was laying in bed, so I went to my doctor. They did an EKG and X-rays and found nothing, so they took some blood to do blood work and sent me home. The next day I received an urgent call from my doctor urging me to head straight to the emergency room for a CT scan due to some unsettling blood work test results they'd just received back. What a terrifying phone call to get! I dropped everything and headed in to the ER. After my CT scan was read by a radiologist I was informed that I was being admitted to the hospital because I had many small blood clots in my lungs (pulmonary emboli), which can be fatal. 

I ended up having to learn how to give myself injections of blood thinners in my belly for several weeks, as well as stay on a blood thinning drug called Coumadin for 7 months. Coumadin was actually first used as rat poison and later found effective in small doses to thin blood in humans. I ended up having a lot of side effects on the drug and needed to be on nausea meds as well, plus had to be very careful about not eating too much of anything green, or grapefruit. It was one of the worst ordeals of my life, and after tons of doctors appointments, genetic testing, twice monthly blood tests, etc. it was determined that the cause of my clot was the synthetic estrogen in the birth control pill. I was told that for the rest of my life I need to stay away from anything containing estrogen. Obviously, no more birth control pills for me. 

So for more than a year I've been off the hormonal birth control and back to the monthly moodiness, heavy periods, and bad cramps. Just last month in the oily group on Facebook I noticed several women posting about using oils to help with their cycles, so I figured it was worth a try to order the oils they were using to see if it might help me. I got Progessence Plus serum as well as Dragon Time massage oil. Dragon Time also comes as a small bottle of pure essential oil, but I liked the idea of having the dragon time already diluted with carrier oil, massages and baths with it sounded nice, and the massage oil was cheaper than the pure EO. The P+ I started using about a day or two before my period was due. I put two drops on the back of my neck and one drop on my forearms two times per day, and continued that routine through the end of my period. I had zero moodiness, reduced heaviness of my flow, as well as reduced cramps. This time, instead of popping pain killers for my cramps I would instead either massage the Dragon Time oil over my abdomen or I would put a little bit in a warm bath and soak in the tub with it. It completely got rid of my cramps. For the first time in 18 years of having my period I did not need to take a single oral pain killer. That's really huge for me. I will definitely be continuing this routine every month. I am so thankful to have these oils at my disposal and wish I had found them years earlier!