Weekly Pill Containers OK?
Jul 17th, 2005, 07:14 AM
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We've carried vitamins in weekly containers for years overseas with NO problem....especially London and Paris. Also do my blood pressure pills the same way,, in my purse or carryon, in weekly containers. In my checked luggage I have some BP pills in their original container.(just in case my trip is extended for some reason).
I don't think you will have any chance of a problem at all!!!
I don't think you will have any chance of a problem at all!!!
Jul 17th, 2005, 07:34 AM
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Janis, I agree. The agents are just people who go to work every day and have all kinds of moods just like the rest of us. I have been questioned.
I took xanax in a prescription bottle that was made out to someone else and got the third degree. I have had a bottle of my own medicine taken away and "checked out" while I waited worrying that my plane would leave. My friend has had her opened OTC medicine packages gone over.
A family member put his meds in weekly pill containers and no one cared but since he was in show business and cared so much about his appearance, he did take one of those spray cans of fill in hair color for bald spots, but took off the label so no one would "know". The agent didn't understand when he mimed what the spray was for and sprayed it on his own palm. Imagine his surprise when auburn gook came out all over his hand. He just walked away and motioned for another agent to take over,lol.
You just never know, so leave enough time between planes or arriving at the airport just in case.
I took xanax in a prescription bottle that was made out to someone else and got the third degree. I have had a bottle of my own medicine taken away and "checked out" while I waited worrying that my plane would leave. My friend has had her opened OTC medicine packages gone over.
A family member put his meds in weekly pill containers and no one cared but since he was in show business and cared so much about his appearance, he did take one of those spray cans of fill in hair color for bald spots, but took off the label so no one would "know". The agent didn't understand when he mimed what the spray was for and sprayed it on his own palm. Imagine his surprise when auburn gook came out all over his hand. He just walked away and motioned for another agent to take over,lol.
You just never know, so leave enough time between planes or arriving at the airport just in case.
Jul 17th, 2005, 09:37 AM
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for loisco, You may find similar to OTC medications, but not always find the brand name you are used to. I would be tempted to take the Aleve (for example) and shop around for equivalent vitamins half way thru your trip. i'd probably pack enough of my own contact lense solution for the whole time, unless you are able and willing to try new brands. on several occasions in Switzlerland I bought something even better than I would have found at home from the pharmacy (but I had a french-speaking friend helping me).
Jul 17th, 2005, 05:49 PM
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don't believe Tylonol and Codeine available OTC in France but not sure - well if it were i'd been buying for the past 30 years of visiting France! Is in UK - kind of weird you go into Boots or any chemist shop and it's behind the counter and you have to ask for it - the clerk will often raise it up and shout to a pharmacists that's it's OK to sell it to you - a perfunctory yes always returned and then some perfunctory warnings. I usually buy at airport duty-free, a bit less but not always in stock. Great for tooth aches and sore throats. Also available in Canada but only prescription in US.
does anyone know other European countries Aspirin & Codeine (also available like Tylonol and Codeine) and Tylonol and Codeine are available OTC in? Ireland i would think? Not legal to import into US so i always empty the bottle into my plastic bag with aspirins or vitamins in them. Sometimes i use a regular aspirin bottle and put the codeine-fortified aspirin in them.
does anyone know other European countries Aspirin & Codeine (also available like Tylonol and Codeine) and Tylonol and Codeine are available OTC in? Ireland i would think? Not legal to import into US so i always empty the bottle into my plastic bag with aspirins or vitamins in them. Sometimes i use a regular aspirin bottle and put the codeine-fortified aspirin in them.
Jul 17th, 2005, 07:45 PM
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Lois, I'd take 3-4 of the travel size bottles (2 oz) of lens solution and throw away the empties as you go.
The Aleve that we bought in France was less expensive than here in US; the pharmacist drew it to our attention.
The Aleve that we bought in France was less expensive than here in US; the pharmacist drew it to our attention.
Jul 17th, 2005, 09:04 PM
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In nearly 30 years of travel to and through Europe (sometimes on the way to places like India and Africa) I have never had anyone even ask about medications, let alone examine them at customs. If they examine them at security checkpoints, they don't even seem to care what they are...they just keep looking for scissors or whatever. If anyone did ask, I would just explain that the bottles they come in take too much room and are too heavy to carry on the plane in an era of carryons that get weighed and challenged. Every security inspector I've met has been really reasonable...everyone carries medications and supplements these days, and your pills really do not set off alarms as either illegal drugs or dangerous chemicals. Really, I think there is too much being made of this. I'd like to hear if anyone has ever had a problem or challenge on such bottle transfers...
