Medication for fear of flying

[curiouskatie]

Do you just make an appointment and ask your GP for a prescription for a couple of days worth of pills to treat anxiety caused by flying? I hate asking for anything specific like that from doctors!!

[pink-kittens]

For a treanqulizer, yes, you will need a trip to the GP

You could try something like Qualms? No idea if they work though

[curiouskatie]

If you meant Kalms, then no they don't work for me at all!

[pink-kittens]

Oh goodness, my brain is so dead at 6am :(

The a trip to your GP is all that is open too you.

[devil99]

hi kate, your doctor should give you these with no problem, my friend get bad anxiety with flying and she goes to see her doctor for this each time she goes away.

[weeal]

I recently went on a long haul flight, was terrified but couldnt take pills cos I was scared to go through Dubai with them, and I did it without them.
Cant believe I did, 27500 miles or thereabouts and am now cured! I cant say I enjoyed it but by the time I got back I wasnt scared at all.
It is honestly mind over matter.
Now I cant wait to go somewhere else, but closer this time lol

[judypark]

GP can prescribe beta-blockers, these supress the rush of adrenalin which is the cause of the panicy feeling. They are not tranquilizers, I know of a couple of people who were prescribed them for their driving tests.

[Cockney_si]

Get a mate to secretly slip sleeping pills in a burger then drink lots of milk afterwards, you will wake up having been on the plane asleep.

Seriously though have you considered hypnotherapy?

[Roughquest]

Hi Curiouskatie,
I am the world's worst flyer, I hate flying but have been on many a long haul, i cant get on a plane without anxiety pills, I used to take dizepam which never really worked, but recently a friend of mine who is a nurse, told me to take Lorazepam, 1mg, and i have to say wish i had taken them sooner, they are the best, you just sleep and sleep and dont know you have been flying at all, kept me extremely calm - i get stressed waiting in the departure lounge for fear of boarding the plane but after one of these beauties I could not have given a fig where I was it was a lovely calming sensation.....

[Roughquest]

...actually I think its LOPRAZOLAM 1 mg - the too are very similar even the doc got my prescription wrong lol.....had to go back and get it changed.....

[dzoey]

Rick, a close friend of mine, has this afraid of flying. I see some pleasant results in him, since using http://www.yourwingz.com/. maybe, you too try.