flying

does anyone have problems flying thought had cracked problem as been ok ish flying since starting xolair but just done long haul flight was fine going but it was a green men job on the plane at the airport on landing coming home and straight through to a and e. not imoressed. Anyone any soloutions apart from don't do long haul; flights?

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I have found for some reason and I expect it is probably due to re-circulated air on planes that I always pick up an infection/virus a couple of days after the flight... Still not 100% that wearing a mask whilst on board helps as tends to aggrevate the breathing... Hope you have recovered from your flight and are feeling better :). How are you with short hall flights?

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Hey, this has never personally happened to me as my mum wont let me leave the uk lol (not even to surrounding islands at the moment as shes worried she wont be able to get to me if i end in costa) but if your u der a consultant, (or i think gps can refer not entirly sure) could you ask for a fit to fly test as it may be the case that your oxygen levels a lungs cant cope with the altitude change...it wouldnt mean you wouldnt be able to fly, it just means that they can provide you with equipment for flying. I have a friend who has cystic fibrosis and when she went to spain last year, she had one of these tests and then had to take and oxygen cylinder with her on the flight as her lungs couldnt cope with the change etc.

Hope this helps, sorry if it doesnt and i have just rambled

And i hope ur ok after ur hossie visit

xx

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Since starting collar seem to be fine ish on short haul flights so really thought had solved problem annoying when chest defines what can and cannot do and although I have Nebs the portable one is just not powerful enough I don't think for when things start to go AWOL on a flight and it's only coming home that have problem never going perhaps should move somewhere warm and not return sincedkws chest happy .

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If my asthma is in an uncontrolled time i have lots of problems flying and use many puffs of ventolin to manage. It wasn't until I read other people's experiences on here that I realised it is common. Next time I fly I am going to take ventolin just before to hopefully nip it in the bud. I have always assumed it is the recycled air conditioning. I had the same problem in an air conditioned tour bus in the Australian Outback, very scary and stressful.