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Thirteen hours, a cool bag and airport security

Started 23 October 2025 · 18 replies · 156 hearts · read 2.6k times

TullaTralee, IE · 23 October 2025
9 months ago

A question rather than an update: Thirteen hours, a cool bag and airport security

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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BlueStroud, UK
#1

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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AriaAuckland, NZ
#2

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#3

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#4

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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IzoldaVilnius, LT
#5

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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NissaHaifa, IL
#6

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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BrackenHexham, UK
#7

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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DuncanPerth, UK
#8

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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SalmaManchester, UK
#9

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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TamarPlymouth, UK
#10

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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NevGrimsby, UK
#11

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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VeraRiga, LV
#12

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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OzrenZagreb, HR
#13

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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PrunellaBury St Edmunds, UK
#14

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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MimiHong Kong
#15

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#16

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#17

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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OzzyAdelaide, AU
#18

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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