Thanks Meggie - and yes I too am so happy that you are here too - I know this will work - no matter how long it takes - I am determined to hang in here and see it though !!

And Jaba - the problem is finding a flight that arrives in the evening - most of them arrive first thing ....once I did arrive very late at night and then stayed at a hotel near the airport and that was much better - but couldn't do it this time. And yes Meggie, it is worth it to see my mum - so I get where you are coming from !!

Hugs, Maggie x

Ditto for me!! But I always end up feeling like they were worth it, at LEAST after the fact. Maggie, I hope you have a wonderful trip. Newlife

How are you doing, I assume you are at your mum's home. I hope all is going well and you are able to stay alcohol free.

No Meggie - I leave 16th October so am not there yet - am not doing really well at the moment and have not been very good at posting. I do know that this will work eventually - I have no doubt about that - but have been sort of down lately. Thanks for posting and checking in after me - hope that you are doing okay? I just KNOW that this is taking way longer than I had hoped - but have to know that it will eventually work - the Topa took for ever with me too - so I think I am just one of those folk for whom all of this takes longer !

Hugs to you, Maggie xx

Maggie
I hope i can log as many AF days as you one day. it is my aim. so glad to see in your and others posts it CAN be done.
Good luck with the travel. Once a year I settle in for the long flight to see my mother. 12.5hrs flight connects with 10.5hrs flight (1.5hrs airport to run to the connecting gate) by the time i arrive i don't know if it's morning or night but the look on my 85 year old mothers face when she see's me? worth enduring the coach flights from hell. That's the one trip I've learned not to drink AL on. water, lots of water. knocks me about too much if i'm dehydrated.
good luck. safe travels.

Stated TSM Fri 28th AUG 2015
Before TSM 10 to 19 units most days/ average 91 units/week - no AF days
Wk: Units (AF)
1: 62 (1) 50mg Nal 1st night (spacey feeling), then 2 nights at 25mg, then 50mg going forward.
2: 91 (0) part of this week on beach vacation, discouraged, didn't keep close track, drank a lot, number approx.
3: 90 (1) number approx.
4: 84 (0)
5: 62 (2) added 25mg of Topamax on advice of addiction psychiatrist but stopped after 3 nights because of zombie SE.
WEEK SIX
Fri 2nd - 7 units
Sat 3rd - 7 units

Terez - thank you so much for your post - I have been pretty down about things lately and yours made me smile ! Yes I so understand the time on the plane - in cramped coach! I often try to pay for extra leg room but the flight I am on there were NONE left!! I am way too old for this - LOL And yes I also agree - that AL does NOT help the long flights ! I have suffered way too much on too many flights and now do not drink alcohol on them - drink plenty of water !

Where does your mum live - and where are you ? you can PM me if you do not want God and everyone to know .....and my mum will be 86 the day after I arrive ! Could not get there for her birthday this year !! But know that it is worth all the traveling to see her face when I am there - as you said !!!

Hugs, Maggie x

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Jaba - I did PM you after I got yours - did you not get it ? It was sweet of you. And I have found that one does not need the loo as much as you think on those flights - they are so dehydrating that most of it is needed by the body ..... It amazed me how little I needed to go with as much water as I was drinking - I had a lovely flight attendant - when I kept asking for water after I had finished the bottle that I brought on board, eventually she brought me a litre bottle all to myself !! !! And I drank ALL of it ! It also makes a difference to how jet lagged one is when you drink enough water !

Jaba - hope that you see the Pm that I sent you ....

Hugs, Maggie xx

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I did it with topa and did it with 75 mg, you drink less than me and needed 300 mg. We have been fighting this battle and have used all sorts of alternatives. This one does make sense if we let it, I don't even remember the last totally AF night, I think 2011. We will do it, we need to, I just need to just cut down to nothing. Best of luck, I was worried, you are always so good about posting.