Flying/Traveling

Being we are all different sometimes we have to try different medications for stress/anxiety, etc.  I also tried Lexapro and ended up trying my husbands Xanax (I know that is not recommended) and it worked for me so been on it for 3 years about.  I have not had to increase the doseage but do feel I am somewhat addicted.  I really don't care - at age 70 and being so anxious and ugly most of the time without it - I just love the way I feel better without side effects.

ElaineNY

I would like to comment on that drink/snack cart.  I was so pleased our last flight from NY to Florida that they do not have those carts on Jetblue - no getting my way between me and the bathroom.  Wonderful!  I will always fly Jetblue when possible now.

ElaineNY

Thanks for the comments about the bathrooms, ldonovan. I haven't flown a whole lot in my adult life so my experience with that is a little limited. I live in the sticks so I almost always have to take a connecting flight, and that first, local one is usually on a fairly small plane. Luckily if I go to the usual air port, that flight is only around an hour which I can mentally force myself to swing most of the time. :) I didn't see any restroom on that kind of plane last time, but they could have had one stuffed in there somewhere.

I had my 2nd scope done today. I still "only" have left sided UC. I'm a little bummed - I dunno what I was expecting him to find, but I was kind of hoping it was better news. The GI didn't say much else other than that he wants me on steroid enemas instead of the Prednisone now. This is kind of disappointing because the enemas seemed to take longer to "kick in" and didn't last as long - they'll also be more difficult to travel with. I'm less confident in them, in other words, but I'm pretty sure I can cope with that with the help of my new friend Imodium, so now I get to shift my worries to figuring out what and how to pack and all of the other little details that I hate so much about flying... :)