To ask about flying with prescribed medication in hold luggage?

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I'm on a range of medications. I don't want to bring the boxes of each of them with my prescribed name on them due to the sheer bulk. Are there any problems with just bringing the required amount (3 days worth), of each medication? Flying within Europe.

Not the answer you would like but I think you have to have the boxes with your prescription on.
Hope you enjoy your trip.

Oh dear. They'll take up a quarter of my suitcase!

For God's sake don't put them in your hold luggage if you can avoid it - put them in your carry on where it's less likely to get lost!

(I take my boxes but collapse them flat and stuff them in an envelope)

You need to think about what would happen if your hold luggage went missing? Could you manage without your medication?

If not then it’s essential that you pack it in your carry on bag. Just put other stuff in your hold luggage instead

Yes, not sure if it’s a legal requirement as such but it’s wise to have boxes. Have to take a lot for my daughter, I pack the tablets I need then flatten the relevant boxes so they don’t take up much space.

Plus I have some in my hold luggage should have said !

Good point. Hadn't thought about luggage getting lost and no, I couldn't manage without them. Will bring them in carry-on luggage so.

Have you got a repeat prescription slip? Or a doctor's letter with the details in.

How essential are they to your wellbeing? How easy would they be to replace if your hold luggage went missing. Would it ruin your holiday to spend the first day rinning round trying to replace it

The safest place to carry them is in your hand luggage with the repeat prescription slip. Personally I always carry DS' out this way. Sometimes I hold luggage them coming home but only if I have spares at home.

You need to take the medication you need plus two days extra just in case.
Put this in your hand luggage. DONT put it in the hold.
Then, do as a previous poster says and collapse the boxes ( I just cut out the pharmacy sticker bit ) and put them in an envelope.
I have travelled a lot with drugs - even pre loaded syringes- and have never been asked to show the boxes, however I always take them as the one time I don't will be the one time I'm pulled.
So, that's my advice.

yes to not in the hold, if you can.
take the prescription or a copy in case you get stuck abroad and need to get new supplies.

You can bring a separate baget just of medication if you need to they shouldn't count towards your luggage allowance hand luggage or hold luggage wise

Check with your airline if you can take an extra hand luggage bag for medication. I’ve seen type 1 diabetics go through security with insulin in a clear luggage bag that would have taken all their hand luggage requirements.

I fly a couple of times a year, each time with three months worth of medication. Always put tablets etc in hold luggage, have a flat box of each tablet type plus prescription with me, always carry my insulin pens (I have a large amount of pens as I inject five times a day) in my hand luggage because of low temperatures in the hold. If I am away for three days I usually just pop the required amount in my toilet bag.

Never had any problems and never been questioned about my meds in over twenty years.

I take a lot of meds and have carriers that hold 7 days of tablets in compartments so I take them at the right times of the day.

Something like these: www.completecareshop.co.uk/personal-care/pill-boxes-and-organisers/

I take these, along with a letter from my consultant confirming my meds in my hand luggage. I've travelled all over the world and never had any issues. I don't bother with the boxes. I've even travelled to places with 'strict' regs about drugs (SE Asia etc) and not had them give a second glance.

I'd advise taking twice as much as you need, just in case you're delayed on the way home.

as others say, the hold is not the place for anything valuable or essential. Bags get lost.

if the medication is solid, no issue. If it is liquid, gel or paste you may need to take other action.

Liquid medication can be carried on and doesn't count against your liquids allowance, but you may need a letter if you're taking significant amounts. It needs to go in a clear bag if possible, like other liquids.

No liquids, no. I have a repeat prescription and a discharge letter from the hospital with a full list. Thanks for the advice.

When I fly I put mine in my hand luggage, flatten the boxes and also carry a repeat prescription and a letter off my GP as somebody of mine are controlled medications (morphine). Never had problems. The only thing they do, is open my liquid morphine (take tablets as well) and they test it.

Some of my- not somebody lol

I flew out to America with antibiotics but had to take them in the box and Security at JFK wouldn't let me fly back out to UK with them as the label had come off so they took them off me. Luckily I only had two days worth and a packet left at home.

Spain, Tenerife and Greece I had to keep them in the box with my label on and kept them in my hand luggage but brought back medication from Spain that was prescribed with no label and they didn't question it.

DS always brings enough for his trip, but has a letter from the GP confirming the details of his medication.

He always carries them in hand luggage

I'm a bit similar with medication OP.
I always call the Special Assistance line and request extra baggage allowance, this has never been denied and they allow extra bag/kg's. You will need a copy of medication from GP.