Thanks, justafriend, you are a friend indeed! The thing is, such an airport experience would not have been hard on anyone else! There were mobs of people walking around without a care in the world. Thanks for the tip about lithium. When I see my old/new pdoc, I guess I won't demand a change. The pdoc I switched off of has rx/d 25 mg of lamictal, to raise to 50 mg in a week or two (I forget which time period). I haven't picked up the rx because I want to talk to my new/old pdoc first. I just hope I can get an appt with him this week. The one I switched off said he wanted to see me on Sept 23 because the Li would have kicked in by then. But I cancelled that one b/c I'm chancing pdocs.