Hi,

I do not think you will have to fear much.

Your doctor should be able to advise you on that.

If it is an 8 or 12 hour flight and since I take my medicine every
night.  I follow the timings at home.

If I fly during the day, I will wait until night to take it.If I fly
during the night, then I will take it soon after take off.

Then again the longest flight I have taken is 13 hours. I had no
problems. Plus my medicine is considered a mild dosage.

Hope this helps

Cheers

 Do you know what the time difference is between Netherlands and where
you're going?  e.g. East Coast is 5? or 6 hours.   When I went to Hawaii
last Sept. it was 6 hours West of me, and I just took my Morning and Night
Doses (Tegretol and Frisium)   at my 'Local Watch time',  on the **NEW
Timezone.
  I did the same when I returned (6 hours Eastward), taking the Morning
dose in Morning here, and didn't have any noticeable effects for those 2
Meds. for Complex Partial seizures.

  You could ask your Doctor if they'd want to give you a 'relaxant' so you
could Sleep more easily on the Airplane if you're affected by lack of sleep
and seizure effects.    I found the Plane seats were like sitting on a Rock
!! and didn't sleep on either of the 2 x 3 hour Flights  I took each way.
I think some of the Larger Planes that travel long distances have Better
Seats and Radio or Movie links at each *seat that you can watch, if that
would help.  So you can pick a different movie or music than the person
sitting next to you.

  If you're taking Courses etc. you could arrive 2?  days early, and that
would give you some time to adjust.  The time in North America will be
*Behind the Netherlands, so Noon there, would be 7AM in New York or Nova
Scotia (Canada).  You might notice more of an affect going Eastward (home),
because then Noon 'here' would be 7AM where you are.     G.

Traveling in the westerly direction of from the Netherlands to the US will
probably not cause much jet lag.  It will be your return trip back to the
Netherlands that is more likely to cause a problem.  That's always been our
experience when traveling back & forth to Europe.

The following article gives some explanation and some tips on how to minimize
the jet lag effect:
http://www.sportsci.org/encyc/jetlag/jetlag.html

Happy flying!

Bob

G'day marco,
i don't know whether this is any help but i flew from australia to england,
and return,
which was a 31 hour flight each way without any problems. i just made sure
that i had
a good rest after each flight. if there is a short time between when you
arrive and when you start your training then maybe they would be agreeable
to you taking an earlier flight if you were agreeable to paying the extra
for
accommodation.
pablo

Thank you Garros/Bob/Pablo/ThePlen,

I am living in GMT+1 time zone and most likely I will go to GMT-8 (Seattle)
(as of yet, this has not been decided yet). As I am quite tall in length,  I
may not be able to sleep very easily on such a long flight but as you said,
I will have to speak to my neuro about that issue and she may indeed be able
to give me something relaxing.

I will definitely consider going to US "earlier" and if necessary, pay that
on my own account. It is only the hotel expenses that I may have to pay for.
The link you gave me Bob looks very interesting. I will have a closer look
in a minute.

So, conclusion is that I will really have to carefully plan my back home
trip -maybe on Thursday/Friday so that I have the whole weekend to actually
relax. After that I will take a couple of days off anyways, so actually it
does not matter when I fly back.

Thank you so much.

Cheers,

PS: A 31 hour flight Pablo?? My god...that is not really "happy flying" :-)