Going abroad with pills and potions

[NIK]

This isn't strictly a Dis query but I was speaking with a work colleague yesterday who'd had a bad experience travelling to France so I thought I'd see if anyone else had had a similarly bad experience

My friend was on a great deal of medication which he had to take with him when he went abroad and he was one of the unfortunate souls they picked on to do a bag search. He had any number of perfectly legal prescription tablets for a heart condition but they gave him a really hard time about them. Luckily they did eventually realise that he was a sick person rather than some drug dealer but it made for an unpleasant incident.

Since last I went to Disneyland I've acquired a full medicine cabinet and I am a little concerned that I might end up in the same boat. Has anyone else ever been grilled about legal prescription tablets or given any sort of bother about it.

 

[Cyrano]

Nik can't help with this query, but SIL is a pharmacist so I'll ask her over the weekend if no one else can help

 

[BONITATIME]

I would take a copy of your written perscriptions and don't take the tablets out of the bottles or boxes. That can cause real difficulties everywhere.

 

[disneyangel]

I would take a copy of your written perscriptions and don't take the tablets out of the bottles or boxes. That can cause real difficulties everywhere.

Hi Nik I work as a Pharmacy Tech. and would advise as above. In addition it might be beneficicial to either have a Dr's letter or Travel Insurance Doc which lists your medications or a repeat prescription form would do and keep the meds in their original boxes with dispensing labels attached. This gives anyone with a query a contact name to check that they are legitimate.

We always have to travel with DD's Asthma meds which includes a big volumatic and at least once we had antibiotics too and we've never had any bother. Hope you won't either

 

[NIK]

I never have before myself to be honest but I've never had quite so much medication as I have now. Perhaps my work chum was just unlucky that his bag was picked on for a random search. [My aunt's was also gone through when she went across the Channel] Odds are it won't even crop up but I thought I'd take some advice.

Ta all