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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azure" data-source="post: 1335738" data-attributes="member: 39639">Book flights at a time that suits you ie not due to leave at a meal time. Plan to get to the airport well in advance and eat your meal in good time. Take your own food so you know it'll work for your BS. Test your BS frequently and aim to be slightly higher than you would normally. Although you can't take food through security, you can buy snacks and water to,take on board once you clear that.It sounds to me like you have a great deal of anxiety. Reducing that should help a lot as it will make your BS more predictable too. Anxiety can cause both highs and lows.Before taking a flight, perhaps you could practise becoming more confident out and about eg travelling by bus or train? Or just going out for the day? Take glucose, take snacks and take lots of test strips. I also think you're struggling with your diagnosis. I know it's hard. I've been diagnosed more than 20 years and I still haven't completely got over it because it's ****, to be blunt. But you can't let Type 1 rule your life. You have to learn to live with it and deal with it.</blockquote>

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