Eurostar and carrying syringes- help needed

[snowwombat]

I am due to be travelling on the Eurostar next week. I am pregnant and inject myself with blood thinners each day.
The Eurostar website says hypodermic syringes are prohibited and customer service have not yet responded to my emails.

Does anyone have any experience of taking medication in syringes on the Eurostar? Thank you for your help.

I have no experience of Eurostar, but I had to inject Fragmin recently and I needed to take some on a flight. I put it in my suitcase and checked it in with no problems. Do Eurostar scan your suitcases? If not, how would they know? Could you get a note from your GP in case there is a query about it?

Can you call them?
Or alternatively if you're going to france surely you can go to a phramacist and buy some more?

I had a look at their policy and it seems to be suggesting that you can check in a bag containing prohibited items as registered luggage. It appears that they may charge for this however. If they try, I would refer them to the Disability Discrimination Act.

I hope you have a good trip, and I hope you are not too bruised .

The injections cost about £10 each, so buying them is not a great option. They must allow needles on board for diabetics, epi-pen carriers etc.

thanks for quick responses! niggle you are a star, thanks for finding the checked luggage info. I agree, there must be some provision for prescription injections, will try call centre again tomorrow (they were a little clueless when i called last week). Bruising not too bad yet, but done this before and had a kaleidoscope of bruises on my tummy. very attractive
champagne unfortunately this is a work trip (long long days),so not really time to traipse around to pharmacies. I would still have the problem of transporting them home.

Not travelled Eurostar but flew from LHR last year when I was pregnant and injecting clexane daily. I took a copy of my prescription with me and that was ok. Just produced it at check in and security and no problems.

Good luck

Called them again,spoke to someone sensible. Despite any written policy, they assure me that the check in staff will be fine, and to just bring a doctors letter. Fingers crossed.
Thanks very much for your help everyone