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Cruising With Meds
Many people have medical conditions which require daily medicine.
Leaving the prescription drugs at home is not an option. You may have to leave your meds at home? "Nonnymus" wrote in message ... Daniel R. Bonham wrote: Yes we will be travelling by air from CVG to MCO prior to the cruise out of Port Canaveral. "Kurt Ullman" wrote in message ... In article , "Daniel R. Bonham" wrote: Due to several medical conditions, I take a number of medications each day. Because of the number of pills and various times of day I am required to take them, I keep them in a weekly pill dispenser case. Will this be a problem boarding the cruise? Should I leave them in the script bottles and the fill the dispenser onboard? Any experience with this I would appreciate you input. Thanks in advance. Dan --- 160 Days and counting. The problems with medications tends to be more of an airport problem. So, are you going by air? If so, then I would probably keep them in the bottles and carry them on, according to TSA regulations. I am assuming you will have enough to get you through the cruise with no problems. When we travel with pills or injections, I've never had TSA or a ship security person question them. I keep pills in the weekly dispenser, as you apparently do. Our HMO sends out a monthly summary of prescriptions we've had filled in order to show their cost vs. our copay. This is a very handy one-page document on their letterhead that I keep in my carry-on bag with the pills. While it's not as good as an ink signed prescription for customs, TSA or shipboard security, it's one heck of a lot better than nothing at all. We get our meds filled exclusively at Walgreen's, and they now include a verbal description of the medicine on the label. I've not done it, but believe I could pull apart an older plastic bottle to flatten it out and photocopy the label as a supplement to the HMO list in order to demonstrate that the pills are the same as depicted by the HMO. Nonny -- ---Nonnymus--- No matter how large your boat, the person you are talking with will have a close friend with a larger one. ---Observation by my son |
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Cruising With Meds
Due to several medical conditions, I take a number of medications each day.
Because of the number of pills and various times of day I am required to take them, I keep them in a weekly pill dispenser case. Will this be a problem boarding the cruise? Should I leave them in the script bottles and the fill the dispenser onboard? Any experience with this I would appreciate you input. Thanks in advance. Dan --- 160 Days and counting. |
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Cruising With Meds
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"Daniel R. Bonham" wrote: Due to several medical conditions, I take a number of medications each day. Because of the number of pills and various times of day I am required to take them, I keep them in a weekly pill dispenser case. Will this be a problem boarding the cruise? Should I leave them in the script bottles and the fill the dispenser onboard? Any experience with this I would appreciate you input. Thanks in advance. Dan --- 160 Days and counting. The problems with medications tends to be more of an airport problem. So, are you going by air? If so, then I would probably keep them in the bottles and carry them on, according to TSA regulations. I am assuming you will have enough to get you through the cruise with no problems. |
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Yes we will be travelling by air from CVG to MCO prior to the cruise out of
Port Canaveral. "Kurt Ullman" wrote in message ... In article , "Daniel R. Bonham" wrote: Due to several medical conditions, I take a number of medications each day. Because of the number of pills and various times of day I am required to take them, I keep them in a weekly pill dispenser case. Will this be a problem boarding the cruise? Should I leave them in the script bottles and the fill the dispenser onboard? Any experience with this I would appreciate you input. Thanks in advance. Dan --- 160 Days and counting. The problems with medications tends to be more of an airport problem. So, are you going by air? If so, then I would probably keep them in the bottles and carry them on, according to TSA regulations. I am assuming you will have enough to get you through the cruise with no problems. |
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"Daniel R. Bonham" wrote: Yes we will be travelling by air from CVG to MCO prior to the cruise out of Port Canaveral. Then I, personally, would follow whatever the requirements of getting on the airplane are. |
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Daniel R. Bonham wrote:
Yes we will be travelling by air from CVG to MCO prior to the cruise out of Port Canaveral. "Kurt Ullman" wrote in message ... In article , "Daniel R. Bonham" wrote: Due to several medical conditions, I take a number of medications each day. Because of the number of pills and various times of day I am required to take them, I keep them in a weekly pill dispenser case. Will this be a problem boarding the cruise? Should I leave them in the script bottles and the fill the dispenser onboard? Any experience with this I would appreciate you input. Thanks in advance. Dan --- 160 Days and counting. The problems with medications tends to be more of an airport problem. So, are you going by air? If so, then I would probably keep them in the bottles and carry them on, according to TSA regulations. I am assuming you will have enough to get you through the cruise with no problems. When we travel with pills or injections, I've never had TSA or a ship security person question them. I keep pills in the weekly dispenser, as you apparently do. Our HMO sends out a monthly summary of prescriptions we've had filled in order to show their cost vs. our copay. This is a very handy one-page document on their letterhead that I keep in my carry-on bag with the pills. While it's not as good as an ink signed prescription for customs, TSA or shipboard security, it's one heck of a lot better than nothing at all. We get our meds filled exclusively at Walgreen's, and they now include a verbal description of the medicine on the label. I've not done it, but believe I could pull apart an older plastic bottle to flatten it out and photocopy the label as a supplement to the HMO list in order to demonstrate that the pills are the same as depicted by the HMO. Nonny -- ---Nonnymus--- No matter how large your boat, the person you are talking with will have a close friend with a larger one. ---Observation by my son |
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Kurt Ullman wrote: In article , "Daniel R. Bonham" wrote: Due to several medical conditions, I take a number of medications each day. Because of the number of pills and various times of day I am required to take them, I keep them in a weekly pill dispenser case. Will this be a problem boarding the cruise? Should I leave them in the script bottles and the fill the dispenser onboard? Any experience with this I would appreciate you input. Thanks in advance. Dan --- 160 Days and counting. The problems with medications tends to be more of an airport problem. So, are you going by air? If so, then I would probably keep them in the bottles and carry them on, according to TSA regulations. I am assuming you will have enough to get you through the cruise with no problems. It is an airport problem as Kurt says, but it could also be a customs problem on the way home. Most of the time customs isn't going to take a look, but once in a while they will and you don't want a bunch of unmarked pills. I always take more then just what I need and I assume most people do the same thing. sue |
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"Daniel R. Bonham" wrote:
Yes we will be travelling by air from CVG to MCO prior to the cruise out of Port Canaveral. "Kurt Ullman" wrote in message ... In article , "Daniel R. Bonham" wrote: Due to several medical conditions, I take a number of medications each day. Because of the number of pills and various times of day I am required to take them, I keep them in a weekly pill dispenser case. Will this be a problem boarding the cruise? Should I leave them in the script bottles and the fill the dispenser onboard? Any experience with this I would appreciate you input. Thanks in advance. Dan --- 160 Days and counting. The problems with medications tends to be more of an airport problem. So, are you going by air? If so, then I would probably keep them in the bottles and carry them on, according to TSA regulations. I am assuming you will have enough to get you through the cruise with no problems. I do both. That is I take a pill keeper in my carry-on with enough pills for (in my case) 2 weeks, and I also have the bottles with me for refills in my regular suitcase.. Sometimes for things that are OTC (like calcium or aspirin), I will consolidate the bottles. I figure if those things are questioned, then I can buy more. |
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You may have to leave your meds at home?
"Nonnymus" wrote in message ... Daniel R. Bonham wrote: Yes we will be travelling by air from CVG to MCO prior to the cruise out of Port Canaveral. "Kurt Ullman" wrote in message ... In article , "Daniel R. Bonham" wrote: Due to several medical conditions, I take a number of medications each day. Because of the number of pills and various times of day I am required to take them, I keep them in a weekly pill dispenser case. Will this be a problem boarding the cruise? Should I leave them in the script bottles and the fill the dispenser onboard? Any experience with this I would appreciate you input. Thanks in advance. Dan --- 160 Days and counting. The problems with medications tends to be more of an airport problem. So, are you going by air? If so, then I would probably keep them in the bottles and carry them on, according to TSA regulations. I am assuming you will have enough to get you through the cruise with no problems. When we travel with pills or injections, I've never had TSA or a ship security person question them. I keep pills in the weekly dispenser, as you apparently do. Our HMO sends out a monthly summary of prescriptions we've had filled in order to show their cost vs. our copay. This is a very handy one-page document on their letterhead that I keep in my carry-on bag with the pills. While it's not as good as an ink signed prescription for customs, TSA or shipboard security, it's one heck of a lot better than nothing at all. We get our meds filled exclusively at Walgreen's, and they now include a verbal description of the medicine on the label. I've not done it, but believe I could pull apart an older plastic bottle to flatten it out and photocopy the label as a supplement to the HMO list in order to demonstrate that the pills are the same as depicted by the HMO. Nonny -- ---Nonnymus--- No matter how large your boat, the person you are talking with will have a close friend with a larger one. ---Observation by my son |
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Cruising With Meds
On 10/14/2007 7:56 PM Rosalie B. consulted a Magic 8 Ball and declared:
"Daniel R. Bonham" wrote: Yes we will be travelling by air from CVG to MCO prior to the cruise out of Port Canaveral. "Kurt Ullman" wrote in message ... In article , "Daniel R. Bonham" wrote: Due to several medical conditions, I take a number of medications each day. Because of the number of pills and various times of day I am required to take them, I keep them in a weekly pill dispenser case. Will this be a problem boarding the cruise? Should I leave them in the script bottles and the fill the dispenser onboard? Any experience with this I would appreciate you input. Thanks in advance. Dan --- 160 Days and counting. The problems with medications tends to be more of an airport problem. So, are you going by air? If so, then I would probably keep them in the bottles and carry them on, according to TSA regulations. I am assuming you will have enough to get you through the cruise with no problems. I do both. That is I take a pill keeper in my carry-on with enough pills for (in my case) 2 weeks, and I also have the bottles with me for refills in my regular suitcase.. Sometimes for things that are OTC (like calcium or aspirin), I will consolidate the bottles. I figure if those things are questioned, then I can buy more. Rosalie, I don't think it wise to put prescription meds in checked luggage. What if it doesn't arrive when you do? If you missed count or for some other reason need more than what's in your pill keeper, you are out of luck. At the very least you have the hassle of trying to obtain them in a strange town. Then there's the possibility of being questioned by TSA. If you have the original bottles in your carry-on it's just a matter of taking the bottles out and showing that the pills match the ones in the bottles. I keep my meds with me in my carry-on. When I have reached my destination and have a chance to settle in, that's when I fill my pill caddy. I have been stopped in Minneapolis of all airports; since all my meds were in their original bottles it wasn't a problem. I look at it this way, it's a little hassle to avoid an even bigger one. -- ________ To email me, Edit "blog" from my email address. Brian M. Kochera "Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once!" View My Web Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~brian1951 |
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