Need help quick--Dates on Prescrip for security purposes

[HappyCamperToo]

Seriously, you have 3 of the most frequent fliers on this board who have responded to you.

OT to this thread, but I wanted to get in on a thread that so many experienced flyers are folowing.

How about contact lenses which are individually sealed in a small amount of liquid? Can DD take a 2-week supply in her carry-on bag? They are daily disposables, so that woud be 28 lenses (maybe 30 just in case she goes swimming). What would you do?

Also, they're not exactly MEDS, so do I need to track down a prescription?

 

[winterman]

Seriously, you have 3 of the most frequent fliers on this board who have responded to you. We've tried to clarify and show you the pros and cons. Sorry that we were not helpful in making your decision, but I think that the 3 of agreed that there was almost no issue at all in putting the items in your carryon.

I have been planning to pack two weeks supply of my meds in my 'pill minders', which means they will not be labeled. The original containers take up too much space. The one exception is my insulin. That will be labeled. After what I have read on this thread, I have not changed my plans. Thanks for the help.

 

[bavaria]

OT to this thread, but I wanted to get in on a thread that so many experienced flyers are folowing.

How about contact lenses which are individually sealed in a small amount of liquid? Can DD take a 2-week supply in her carry-on bag? They are daily disposables, so that woud be 28 lenses (maybe 30 just in case she goes swimming). What would you do?

Also, they're not exactly MEDS, so do I need to track down a prescription?

I take contacts in my carryon - not daily wear but several pairs of disposables as I am gone from home for long periods of time. I don't in fact have a valid prescription for them and keep meaning to get one but don't have the time. I've never had any issues with them in carry on OR checked luggage. They are not on the TSA list, and the liquid with them should be ok. She may want to split them bwn carry on and checked luggage.

There was one poster here awhile back who said that her contacts would dry out in checked luggage, but that's never happend to me in carry on or checked luggage, even with contacts in a regular case. And that was up to 14 hours of flight time.

 

[HappyCamperToo]

Duh! I never thought to take extra. We can pack a week's worth in each checked bag, I'm sure we'll be checking at least 3 bags, and have some in carry-on, too. Thanks for waking me up!!!!

(Daily wear are factory sealed in sterile solution, so I can't imagine that they'd dry out in a checked bag.)

 

[bavaria]

(Daily wear are factory sealed in sterile solution, so I can't imagine that they'd dry out in a checked bag.)

I take it that they are like my 2 week Acuvues. We debated at length here if I recall a few weeks ago. I use either the hanging style case or the flat case when I travel (usually hanging) and just screw the lid on tight and never an issue.

I usually have about 3-5 pairs with me, but again that's because I am gone from home for 3-5 weeks at a time. But taking extra is definitely handy - one of the best things about disposable lenses is no worry if you lose them or break them, not like in the old days!

 

[NotUrsula]

The rep she spoke to at American Airlines in Dallas told her she could not have her pills in one of those weekly pill boxes, that they had to be in their original bottles with her name on the prescription.

Presuming she's flying domestic within the US, the AA rep was misinformed. I've been using my weekly pill box all along, and have not been questioned at all; yesterday morning I had 3 of them in my carryon. You only *must* carry the scrip for domestic flights if the med is in some sort of "wet" form.

In the first few days after 8/10, there were reportedly a few overzealous TSO's who insisted on taking away pills that were in bottles labeled "gelcaps", but they didn't question mine in the pillboxes.

The best thing to do is to print off (the day of your flight) and carry the TSA list from the TSA website, so that if there are any questions you can refer to it.

Oh, and about having stricter scrutiny at larger airports? IME (which is fairly considerable), exactly the opposite is the case. TSO's assigned to small airports tend to be much more exacting than those at large hubs; for one thing they have the time to be.

 

[bavaria]

So NotUrsula's post made my curious, and I took a quick check in my laptop bag which goes everywhere with me and which has taken many trips since 8/10.

Amongst the many other types of pills, there is a package of migraine medicine from Germany, in a package only marked in German and braille, which has been in that bag since end of June. There is no prescription on the package of gelcaps - I picked it up from a pharmacist at Munich airport. Nobody has stopped me to question it or the contents, to try and read the label, ask for a translation or to check if it's gelcaps or solid pills.

Again, a non issue.

 

[triplefigs]

Thanks for the great info. I'm packing my DS and my meds in our weekly medicine dispensers and leaving all those Rx bottles at home!