Jessica Kellgren-Fozard who is another youtuber with EDS mentioned once in her videos about this universal key that people with disabilities can get which allows them access to all the public bathrooms in the UK. Not sure if its actually *all* or if its like within major cities but that'd be really awesome to have here in the US. Or if there were a way for tourists with disabilities to get access to that key while in the UK. Good to know that some public restrooms are closed on certain days... would not have thought that that was a thing 🤷🏻♀️
Longer flight tips I use as a hypermobile person: 1. Take claratin or other antihistamine beforehand to reduce joint and other inflammation 2. Stay on full dose of your standard pain meds for the duration of the flight (for me, this is ibuprofen) 3. Try to get a seat that goes flat if it is possible. 4. Set aside the day after the flight to just recover. I just stay in my pj's the whole day, eating food I packed, and letting my body remember how it is supposed to move and flow. 5. Consider using heat packs or menthol packs or whatever works best on areas that tend to stiffen. I put a heat pack on my low back (I recommend the foil sealed single use ones that last for 8hrs, but take them out of your bag to go through security, and don't put them on until after security 😅), and the traps and other neck muscles that work overtime to keep my head steady on the plane get menthol pads. 6. Any time you get up to go to the bathroom, keep walking around until your legs loosen up properly, not just enough to stumble to the bathroom. If you tell the flight attendants that you need to stretch your legs, they'll be fine with you walking up and down the aisle a couple times. 7. If you are staying in only one or a few locations at your destination, I recommend looking into luggage shipping options to get them from the airport to where you are staying without extra effort. The shipping options often have places directly in the terminal, so you don't even have to lift your suitcase over a doorframe bump before you drop it off, and they drop it off on your doorstep.
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard who is another youtuber with EDS mentioned once in her videos about this universal key that people with disabilities can get which allows them access to all the public bathrooms in the UK. Not sure if its actually *all* or if its like within major cities but that'd be really awesome to have here in the US. Or if there were a way for tourists with disabilities to get access to that key while in the UK. Good to know that some public restrooms are closed on certain days... would not have thought that that was a thing 🤷🏻♀️
Longer flight tips I use as a hypermobile person:
1. Take claratin or other antihistamine beforehand to reduce joint and other inflammation
2. Stay on full dose of your standard pain meds for the duration of the flight (for me, this is ibuprofen)
3. Try to get a seat that goes flat if it is possible.
4. Set aside the day after the flight to just recover. I just stay in my pj's the whole day, eating food I packed, and letting my body remember how it is supposed to move and flow.
5. Consider using heat packs or menthol packs or whatever works best on areas that tend to stiffen. I put a heat pack on my low back (I recommend the foil sealed single use ones that last for 8hrs, but take them out of your bag to go through security, and don't put them on until after security 😅), and the traps and other neck muscles that work overtime to keep my head steady on the plane get menthol pads.
6. Any time you get up to go to the bathroom, keep walking around until your legs loosen up properly, not just enough to stumble to the bathroom. If you tell the flight attendants that you need to stretch your legs, they'll be fine with you walking up and down the aisle a couple times.
7. If you are staying in only one or a few locations at your destination, I recommend looking into luggage shipping options to get them from the airport to where you are staying without extra effort. The shipping options often have places directly in the terminal, so you don't even have to lift your suitcase over a doorframe bump before you drop it off, and they drop it off on your doorstep.
Thank you very much for the tip about bathrooms sometimes being closed on Sundays. I will be careful!
Great tips! Thanks for sharing :D
rewatching so my view from the last upload still counts :)
That is so nice, thank you so much!