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(Message started by: scotg. on Apr 20^th, 2005, 3:06pm)

Title: airport security
Post by scotg. on Apr 20^th, 2005, 3:06pm

Does anyone know if the Imitrex stradadose needles are detectable by the metal detecters at the airport? I have to fly next week and will not get on the plane without one!

Title: Re: airport security
Post by BarbaraD on Apr 20^th, 2005, 3:46pm

Get your doc to write a RX for them.

I carry a scrip for O2, needles and other meds in my billfold just for the airport security. My doc just wrote a note that I had to carry meds and if needed to give me O2. I've never had any trouble.

Hugs BD

Title: Re: airport security
Post by BikerBob on Apr 20^th, 2005, 6:39pm

I suspect that the springs in the statdose cartridges are detectable. I would bring the statdose cartridges with the "tamper-evident seal" intact in the box with the pharmacy label on it that has the prescription info.

Bob

Title: Re: airport security
Post by Jonny on Apr 20^th, 2005, 6:48pm

Read about a dude in England a few months ago that had a note from his doc for insulin injects......he told the airline that if he did not have them in the plane he could die.......they told him "Fuck off"...your not flying.

Call the airline you will be flying with.

Title: Re: airport security
Post by pubgirl on Apr 20^th, 2005, 6:59pm

Jonny's right.

Call the airline as some have confiscated them. Also worth having a few Imigran nasals as back-up, they don't confiscate those.

Wendy

Title: Re: airport security
Post by BikerBob on Apr 20^th, 2005, 7:44pm

The decision is not made by the airline you are flying with. The decision is made by Airport Security at the airport you are flying from. Sometimes those decisions are discretionary when the object in question is not specifically banned. Might be better to call airport security at the airport you are flying from.

Bob

Title: Re: airport security
Post by purpleydog on Apr 22^nd, 2005, 8:00pm

I had syringes in my carry-on bag, and they xrayed it, but nothing. They either didn't care, or didn't see them. I kept them with my vials, and a copy of my script. I didn't have any problems.

Title: Re: airport security
Post by don on Apr 22^nd, 2005, 8:06pm

Quote:

airport security

Thats an oxymoron here in Boston. You could pull an apache helicopter behind you through security and they wouldn't notice.

Unless there is a cigarette lighter on it.

Title: Re: airport security
Post by Bethany1 on Apr 22^nd, 2005, 8:56pm

I just flew to Ohio with my kit in my pocketbook out of Logan in Boston, they never saw it. Then I got pulled over by security coming back and they went through all of my stuff. Funny thing, they never looked in the inside part of my pocketbook (where the imitrex was). Yep security's good.

But they did pull my lighter out and say... "as of April so and so you won't be able to fly with this anymore" Im like, ya ok, thanks. ::)

Title: Re: airport security
Post by BlueMeanie on Apr 22^nd, 2005, 9:20pm

When I took a flight to Vegas back in September I had my Trex in my pocket. I placed it in the tray with my other belongings. They never questioned it at all. The only problem I had was the eyelets on my shoes set off the alarm. They did the normal search routine. I then proceeded to the strip to give away all my cash. :o

Title: Re: airport security
Post by ghost62 on Apr 22^nd, 2005, 10:16pm

My favorite was flying from Stl to Dallas forgot i had a spyderco multi tool with a 3 inch serrated blade and fingernail clippers they let me keep the tool but took the clippers.

Title: Re: airport security
Post by Roxy on Apr 23^rd, 2005, 1:38pm

I fly quite frequently, and I alway carried a load of trex with me. I'm talking about two or three packages of syringes. I was never questioned about the syringes or the vials. Not even when they damn near strip seached me and tore my bags apart.

But don't rely on our experiences......take a RX from your doctor just in case. And don't put your loaded syringes in the overhead like I did......they won't let you stand up and get them when you get hit during takeoff.

Roxy

Title: Re: airport security
Post by sandie99 on Apr 23^rd, 2005, 2:18pm

Honestly, I've always worried like mad before flights... I have so much abortatives & painkillers... I worry that one day I'll be stopped! [smiley=worried.gif]

Title: Re: airport security
Post by bigAl on Apr 23^rd, 2005, 2:48pm

on 04/20/05 at 18:48:02, Jonny wrote:

......they told him "Fuck off"...your not flying. Call the airline you will be flying with.

I think it might be better still to carry a copy of the local ariport security rules and possibly the country's laws that apply. Just calling ahead might depend too highly on the numbskull who answered the phone that day. Documentation of their own rules as well as your doctor's scripts and pharmacy printed materials might all be needed if they decide to get nasty about it.

This also makes me wonder whether it is safe to carry such medications and injecters etc. even when traveling interstate highways. I've heard horror stories about U.S. highway mounties in lonely places like southern Utah where I drive regularly. Granted that illegal drug runners may be out there from time to time, just being unshaven and not having several kids in your minivan might be enough for them to want to spend your afternoon watching them search through all your stuff.

Perhaps it's easier just to hide such things in an obscure pocket or in a money belt.

Title: Re: airport security
Post by don on Apr 23^rd, 2005, 3:01pm

They'll have to pry my trex from my cold dead fingers.

Title: Re: airport security
Post by forgetfulnot on Apr 23^rd, 2005, 3:33pm

About a year ago I flew from Tulsa to Mazatlan, MX going through customs in Houston and Mazatlan coming and going. Thay never looked twice at the Imitrex, but who knows what idiot you will get next time. ::)

Lee

Title: Re: airport security
Post by TonyG1 on Apr 23^rd, 2005, 8:10pm

on 04/23/05 at 15:01:39, don wrote:

They'll have to pry my trex from my cold dead fingers.

LOL ... [smiley=laugh.gif] Don - I just got back from a trip and I took along the trex just in case in my carry-on ... my thoughts exactly !!!!

Title: Re: airport security
Post by Mr. Happy on Apr 25^th, 2005, 4:07am

Wish I did needle point, just so I could chime in.......but alas, snorts do me just fine. What would be interesting is if you can get thru airport security with your own, personal CGA 540 15 lpm O2 Regulator (http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=meds;action=display;num=1114271112)

THAT would be interesting.
RJ

Title: Re: airport security
Post by Svenn on Apr 25^th, 2005, 4:32am

I had with me some 40 trex-shots to Nashville from Norway last year.No problem att all what so ever.Only paper i had with me just in case was the prescription from the doc.

Svenn