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[Taz2]

 

[Firewalker50]

It was fantastic to read your post about your holiday H&S.   So pleased you had a great experience.
Welcome home to summer 'a la UK'.

Fx

[mac]

Well here i go ladies.  About to drive to Glasgow for our flight tonight.

Wish me luck.

Mac

[pj44]

I was wondering how you were hot&spicy bet your glad you went now and what was all the fuss about  so glab you got a break from the anxiety it really does you good.

All the best mac where you going?

[Firewalker50]

You have probably left by now, but good luck and have a fab time Mac
Fx

[Joyce]

Mac hope it's not a long car journey.  So glad we can fly from local airport this year.

[CLKD]

I'm still tight across the belly even though I'm not going anywhere    ........... 

[pj44]

Well since i did so well going to the Isle of wright in June, i'm off too newquey at the end of August. Going with my daughter and her family again i must be mad but have told myself its only for, four days and staying 3 nights in a caravan so i can cope with that. Here's hopeing the weather is better than last time and i actual get to swim in the sea. I'm scared but so much more excited than last time.

[2cats]

My husband and I have got the chance to go away next week, for a week, just the two of us but I'm too scared to book the flight abroad, just in case my anxiety rockets and I can't get on the plane!  I feel ok to holiday in Britain now, but would love to go abroad again....any advice  ladies??

[pj44]

Thats a hard one for me to answer 2catsnat as i'm just not sure if i could go abroad and i have to decide soon as my daughter will be booking to go abroad next year and she has asked if i want to go. All i will say if you have read the past posts from hot&spicy and she did it then i am sure that you can, she was a mess before she went.

[Firewalker50]

Hi 2catsnat.   What a great shame you feel so anxious about it.

I just wondered if you have you ever booked, and then never been able to get on the plane?

This thread was great for support and ideas for Hot&spicy whose fear was greater than the reality - and we all cheered with her when she had a fabulous time.

Please take the time to read through the thread - I think you will take comfort, hope and ideas from it.

Fx

[changesbabe]

I would agree with the others - lots of great advice and support here.  If I can do it anyone can. I was soooo nervous leading up to it - took loads of drugs with me to the airport - diazepam, beta blockers, pain killers in case I got a migraine, bachs rescue remedy you name it but I never needed any of it. In the end I realised I was panicking about panicking and not the actual flight.  I also realised if I didn't do it this year it would be even harder next year.

Well done pj - I can hear your excitement! You did really well to cope with your first holiday and now you are going your second one - that is great news! Go for it 2catsnat! Xxx

[2cats]

Thanks Ladies, don't worry hot and spicy, I won't be going anwhere on holiday Uk or abroad without propanolol, herbal meds, or valium!!  I soo want to give it a go but I'm feeling so dodgy again at the mo - I'm crying alot and feeling very down in the dumps in the morning....generally feeling sorry for myself (not good).  I'm wondering whether now is the right time to push it? Have just started a different HRT yesterday so wondering what that will bring over next few days...
Firewalker - I'm not a fan of flying but I've never considered alcohol or valium etc to get through it. It's always been at a level a lot of people experience I should imagine.
Last year unfortunately, when I arrived at the airport to fly home with my family, I was hungry, very stressed about something else, and extremely hot and I ended up having a massive panic attack.  I calmed down enough  in time to board and then the anxiety went completely.  It was a few weeks after this that I fell apart completely and now realise that my perimeno symptoms were reaching a climax!
The thought of being a long way from home in a foreign country frightens me when I think of "what if I freak out and want to get home and I can't?" Crazy I know but that's meno for you!

[changesbabe]

I totally understand where you are coming from 2cats (you shortened your name?) - when you feel like this it feels so hard to do anything far less go abroad. Like you my anxiety has come about after a huge panic attack at the airport a couple of years ago.  It has knocked the confidence out of me ever since in terms of holidays. Maybe now is not the right time as you have just started a new hrt - it's so hard to know what to do isn't it.

Today I am meeting a friend for lunch and I almost feel too overwhelmed to do that - it's a joke isn't it - am so tired dealing with all this meni crap. Listen to your body and see what it tells you. Despite feeling really anxious about going away I always had a sense deep inside me of thinking that I could do it. Maybe your body is saying its not quite the right time for you. Let us know what you decide - you will defo get loads of support from us. Xxx

[2cats]

H&S - sounds very similar to me!  I hope you got out to meet your friend for lunch??  I too have got that feeling deep inside me that I can do it and everything will be ok, but the little imp on my shoulder keeps saying maybe it wont be ok.............
Randomly, today I went in a flight simulator with my daughter and I was absolutely fine (it was mocked up like getting on a 747 and inside too) so I was pretty chuffed with my reaction.  There is hope for me yet!
Good idea Susan about it being a mini break instead - I'm going to talk about that with my husband tonight.

And THANK YOU for being so supportive - when I read your comments before going out this afternoon, I felt so good to know MM friends would be there for me