What security actually said in six different airports

Started 22 July 2025 · 14 replies · 138 hearts · read 1.4k times

NissaHaifa, IL · 22 July 2025

12 months ago

A question rather than an update: What security actually said in six different airports

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

TamarPlymouth, UK

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

NúriaBarcelona, ES

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

6me too 6

AriaAuckland, NZ

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

DuncanPerth, UK

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

8me too 1

TillyHereford, UK

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

OzzyAdelaide, AU

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

IzoldaVilnius, LT

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

TullaTralee, IE

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

NoleneDurban, ZA

#10

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

VeraRiga, LV

#11

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

OzrenZagreb, HR

#12

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

#13

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

21me too 1

MinnieDoncaster, UK

#14

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.