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@BoscoPiko hi! Oh boy, did I take Xanax lmfao. I have anxiety for flying in general putting the headaches aside. But yes, I think it helped. I am about to board soon for my trip home. I understand about your concern over the length of the flight. My flight was pretty short. I’m not sure what I would do in that situation

This success surely makes me optimistic about traveling to places you can't drive! @kat_92 just curious if you took and or needed to take Xanax? If you did need it how do you think it helped you? Also how long was your flight? My husband and I really want to go to the Isle of Skye in Scotland but I'm so afraid of the lengthy flight. We are in CA so the flight is 13ish hours..

Oh lovely!! Wonderful news. Preparation works!

I have this. For me it started to be a problem though as recent as 2017 and by that time I had CH more or less under control. So I am not sure have I had minor allergy attacks along with CH attacks when I was having lots of them and they still were brutal (CCH over 10 years ago). I think there are many factors in my past that have contributed to this; as a child my father built a house and then it turned out there was glue that contained formaldehyde that was too toxic for children to live in and we abandoned the house but my little brother already had lung damage from it (asthma like allergic symptoms). I have lived in apartments that have had more or less severe indoor air quality issues (mold, chemicals used in the past that have now been banned etc.). I smoked for over 20 years but do not consider that a big contributing factor but quitting smoking is another thing, having all that tar being removed from my pipes ! When I quit, pretty soon I started to have these allergy attacks, even without CH activity, then asthma broke. None of the antihistamines have never touched these. Now I usually get allergy attacks if I get CH activity but not every time. It depends have I had exposure to something in the air recently. I get these year around evenly, even when there's zero amount of any kind of pollen - like now, we are having -10 to -20 celcius cold period, snow covered ground, no pets. I also think that in my case this could be linked to my gut health to some extent. The healthier I eat the less I have these allergy attacks. Nowadays if I have to talk to doctors about this, I call it "non-allergic oversensitive rhinitis" because that is the most accurate match in finnish medical literature - although I do not think that's what this exactly is. Everytime I get told to use nasal sprays with cortisone, which I never do because they trigger CH and more of this all. I also have self-diagnosed rather mild multichemical sensitivity (MCS) related to this.