The Use of Essential Oils in Vape Pens

Generally essential oils have been used for centuries for both for ingestion, inhalation, anointing, lotions, and general health. The fact that vaping has come into play isn't that odd. The problem that I find interesting is that a lot of people are against it for very poor reasons. Generally e-liquids use a lot of essential oils in their natural flavors. I don't even know how the lipid pneumonia myth started spreading and why people believed it at all so I won't even talk about it unless asked. Essential oils are incredibly useful for physical health and mental health. They can help in the right cocktails with insomnia, anxiety, depression, or just mood swings in general.

I originally got turned onto vaping essential oils because I have been diagnosed with Bipolar 2 (with psychotic episodes and regular rapid cycles), General Anxiety (and many other forms), and Dissociative Identity Disorder (though in general this has gotten much better). I now am also plagued with PMDD, mild Agoraphobia, and a lot of general allergies that cause eating to be a severe pain in itself, I also have a severe skin picking disorder, that I have had for a long time but has gotten extremely worse, so much so that I am now actively searching for ways in therapy and just in daily life to help lessen it.

Now most of this was able to be managed by meds in the beginning stages, about two years ago, my medication sensitivity went up, while my sensitivity to my rescue meds such as xanax etc. went down to where they are now pretty much useless. My sensitivity to most medications is I either have horrible side effects from them, or I get to the point where I need to increase a dose but as soon as I do I go toxic.

Then we get to my physical issues, I have horrible sciatica that comes and goes that only extremely expensive laser chiropractry has helped. I also have nerve damage in my right wrist/arm and shoulder,  and so have constant pain that only gets worse through out the day, I need to be seen by a doctor by this.

Most of what started my decision to vape with essential oils, is that aromatherapy in room vaporizers has helped a lot during bad times when nothing else will. My sense of smell, is extremely enhanced compared to most people I have met and most of my emotions can be directly influenced by certain scents, even if they aren't essential oils.

So essential oils which are used to treat and induce certain emotions in your brain by scent are totally awesome in my book. I originally bought a disposable e-cig like vape that used purely diluted essential oils. It helped in ways xanax was unable to. Add xanax to it during an anxiety attack and I am pretty much fine within 15 minutes (which is the way it used to be when I used xanax). It also helps with my over all, extremely high anxiety levels through out the day. But the fact that each pen costs $20.00 itself, when a high quality essential oil 10ml bottle could cost that easily and you could get many more uses out of it, I quickly started researching and figuring out how to make my own.

Each $20.00 pen lasts around 2-4 weeks, the most I have had one last ever, is 3 weeks. So I immediately started buying stuff needed to make my own diluted Essential Oils vape liquids, ended up spending 100.00 dollars or so on Essential Oils themselves, and got about 16 different types out of it. 4 of which I bought separately for very specific needs. I spent another $75.00 on everything else I needed including the vape.

I plan to make 10-15% Essential Oil and then dilute the rest with Vegetable Glycerin. I was sent subohm coils. 0.6, I don't plan to use these except maybe for a test run, I have bought a set of 5 1.0 and 5 1.5 coils. I am not sure if the 1.5 coils will work, but I don't want my temps to hit higher than 250 degrees farenheit if I can help it, preferably staying around 200-220 degrees.

I started this blog to show what Essential Oils can do when vaped SAFELY, and to offer more information on the very little out there on ways that are SAFE to vape them. I spent months researching multiple sites and the pros and cons. Mostly because I couldn't find anywhere, where it was all in one place. I will speak of both pros, cons, and what I choose to do based on those. I specifically will address almost all myths surrounding vaping Essential Oils, except lipid pneumonia, because honestly all someone has to do is look up the medical definition and will realize that makes no sense. I will also explain what essential oils I use and why, what essential oils are, etc.