janey
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Reged: 01/12/03
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Loc: new england
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Hello-I haven't flown since I was a kid,and I sure as heck wasn't worried about bringing spanish codeine on the plane then. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is this something I should try to conceal? Should I take them out of the foil and put them in a prescription bottle? Do the airlines CHECK prescription bottles? Sorry for the outpour of questions,but I want to make sure my perds make it safely with me,across the country.
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timberland
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I've brought Perduretas in a vitamin bottle onto a plane without any hassle. But that's just the tip of the iceberg! I've brought hydro in a prescription bottle and in a bottle of antihistamines with no trouble. I've also put Demerol in a plastic case used to hold wax for applying to pointy spots on my braces, oxycodone in a Dramamine tube, and Xanax in my back pocket. At no point did anyone give me trouble. I think you'll be fine!
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dsmmcm
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Loc: southwest US
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The most important thing is that it's labeled. I once had a bottle of shampoo conficated because the label had come off. I have taken Perduretas across the Canadian/US border in their blister packs. I wasn't checked, but I did not think there would be a problem because they were clearly labeled.
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timberland
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I dunno - you don't think they might trip if the meds are foreign? I would take them out of the blister pack and put them in an innocuous bottle, like for vitamins, tylenol, etc. As far as I know, nobody's ever opened a bottle that, like dsmmcm says, is clearly labeled.
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dsmmcm
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It's probably 50-50. The down side of disguising meds is that if you get caught you could get in real trouble. If you leave them in their original blister packs, they might take them, but I don't think you would get in trouble. After all, it is not illegal for a US citizen to possess perduretas.
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timberland
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Well, without a prescription, it may be illegal. Codeine without any APAP or ibuprofen is Schedule II. I don't have any experience with full disclosure; I've only gone the other way and put them in other bottles (it's important to note that the other bottles contained what the label said they did - i.e. if I put hydro in a vitamin bottle, it was amongst vitamins), and nobody's asked me to open any bottles.
I would just flip out about the foreign language on the blister packs - a lot of people know about drug importing from the news, and airport screeners watch the news...
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theprice
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Reged: 02/17/03
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Loc: massachusetts
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Stick them in the little pocket next to the big pocket in the front of your pants without any wrapping and just make sure you do not go through any metal detectors holding any metal i.e double check belt buckles etc..I've done it twenty times ,no sweat.
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janey
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Reged: 01/12/03
Posts: 98
Loc: new england
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Thanks to everyone who has responded. I leave Monday,and I'm still not exactly sure what I'll do. I sort of want to carry most them in my carry on. I am so naive-will they LOOK through my bag,or just put it through one of those x-ray machines? Same with the suitcase-they don't actually open it,unless they see something naughty,right? Please,don't laugh at me-I haven't flown since I was a young kid!
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curiousdee
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Put them in a vitamin bottle with a label on it, in with your make up and toiletries bag. Don't worry.
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timberland
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I used to have to fly once a week for about a year, and I always put them in another bottle, and never once did anyone check. They won't even see them in the x-ray machine if you put them in a bottle. I promise it will work!
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potatoboy99
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I think Customs has better things to worry about, than a few codeine tabs in someone's purse.
Personally I do not worry too much about carrying personal use quantities of medication when I am travelling. Sometimes I will dump my various pills into a vitamin bottle, but that's more to cut down on the number of bottles rattling around in my toilet kit than a real effort to hide what I'm carrying. I never carry more of anything than I am likely to need while I'm travelling.
I fly internationally at least once a month on average, and I have never once had a customs agent check my meds, prescription or otherwise. Not when I'm leaving the USA, not when I'm clearing customs in Madrid or Stockholm or Jakarta, and not when I'm clearing customs again back home.
I've had my luggage THOROUGHLY searched only twice in 20 years, by US customs, but they were more concerned with counting the cash I had with me to see if I was bringing in more than the allowed $10,000, and checking my receipts to see if I was smuggling shoes or something. They barely gave a second look to my various prescription bottles, vitamins, and assorted blister packs of IOP products that I routinely travel with.
The only scare I ever had in this regard was quite recently. While I was waiting by the luggage carousel for my bags to show up, some customs guys came around with the sniffer dogs, and the dogs went nuts for my carry-on, like it was full of hashish or something. I had several scripts with me, including hydro from an IOP, plus some blister packs of Ritalin and Ambien, plus some antibiotics and some Prednisone I was taking for an infected rash.
Turned out it was the Prednisone that the dogs were after, not the hydro! When they saw the label on the bottle the customs guys just laughed and waved me on.
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IMSUSCOT1
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Reged: 10/23/02
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get a large tylenol bottle, dump half, put the perds in the bottom, cover them with the tylenol, voila/ tylenol
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IMSUSCOT1
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I fly all the time and I can tell you, they frequently do search through your bags, but I carry ALL my meds, and I take Oxycontin, Percocet, Zanaflex, seizure meds, with me, they never, ever have opened up the bottles...so do the tylenol thing in your carry on bag and RELAX, if you look nervous you look suspicious
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potatoboy99
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Quote:
I fly all the time and I can tell you, they frequently do search through your bags.....
IMuscot1, when I said "THOROUGHLY searched" I meant when they ask you to haul your bags into an examination room, where they ask you questions while they are slowly picking apart the contents of your bags, counting your socks and looking through your personal papers for evidence that you are up to no good. On one of the two times this has happended to me, they did a strip search too (no cavity search thank god).
And of course they refused to tell me (and they have no obligation to tell me anything) why exactly I was singled out for special attention.
So this kind of search is still pretty rare I think.
Of course my carry ons and screened checked bags are routinely pawed through by half asleep minimum wage (federal) secruity workers, just like everybody's. But they really don't seem to be trying very hard to find anything in particular. Certainly they do not seem interested in prescription medication.
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