I buy my xanax/valium off the internet. Since I don't have a legit prescrition, what should I do in the following situation. I am going too take a trip that involves 3 flights. How should I carry the meds I need on my trip? In unmarked bottles in my luggage (seems like a bad idea too me). I have tucked them away in the seams of my clothings (I'll have a larger amount this time). Or should I just mail them to myself at my final destination. (not really an option since I will need them on my first stop) Thanks for any help.

P.S. Sorry if this is the wrong forum, spent about 30 min trying too decide which one. I figured this fell under a unique kind of shipping problem finally.....

so im a little freaked out by something and would love input from those that have experienced what i have. i recently sent a moneygram transaction online but noticed i made a spelling mistake. i called moneygram and they started asking me all these probing questions then put me on hold. i was at work and then became nervous so i just hung up. do i have anything to worry about?

oh sorry, traveling with meds hmmmm doesnt sound like a good idea you should ideally have script bottles for all meds to be safe.

So you think your three choices are to pack them in your luggage, tuck them in the seams of your clothing or mail them to yourself where you're going? Sounds pretty complicated.
Why don't you just put them in an old prescription bottle and bring in your carry-on?
Or are you going to some place like Colombia or Afganistan? Judging from your questions, it sounds like the main thing you should do is calm down and avoid too obvious paranoia.

I'm not paranoid really, I'm just traveling to TX and CO. I'm going too have a couple hundred pills here. I've heard that its a no questions asked kinda thing when it comes too meds so I will probably just put in bottles. I just wanted too see if anyone had been in this situation before and had some input. I flew with about 100 xanaxes in the seam of the shirt I was wearing a couple of years ago. I've never had a script b/c of no insurance so I've always been on the "illegal" side b/c its just cheaper too order the meds than go to dr, argue with him about me being on xanax, then have too pay for the script anyway.

I think it would be better to put in a vitamin bottle or 2 and put in your carry on, as you don't want them to get lost. I would not mix types of meds in one bottle either.

I would not 'hide' as if they see stuff in linings, you are gonna face ALOT of questions.

Yea, I was thinking about putting them in OTC med bottles. Anyone know of an otc med thats round and blue like valium?

i have traveled out of the country and through customs as well as multiple flights within the country with 4 bottles of medications. (they were all legal prescriptions mind you) but one was a SCH II, a SCH III and 2x SCH IVs. just kept them in my carry on. no questions ever asked. just imagine how many people are in an airport on any given day and traveling that have medication on them. i guarantee almost every third person (if not more) has some kind of medication on them. look at all the older people there. can you imagine how long it would take to get through security if they made everyone take out their prescriptions and checked the name, med, tried to identify a pill... etc. no one would ever make their flights! you are over thinking it.

stick them in a prescription bottle with your name on it, or in a bottle of supplements, APAP, whatever. if you are traveling within the country, unless you have a bag full of thousands of pills, no one is even going to blink at them. not to mention, they always state if you have necessary meds, to keep them with your carry on as you are screwed if your luggage gets lost. imagine if you needed heart meds and they were lost with your luggage. WHOOPS, heart may stop! so again, stick them in your briefcase/back pack... etc. you will be fine. (just do not have loose pills in a baggie) stick them in some sort of bottle/container.

That sounds like very good advice Funkybreakz.

Thats what I read and figured I'm gonna go the otc route bottle wise but yes, great idea. Thanks for the advice.

Flying domestically you should have no problems if you place the meds in a prescription vial (a real vial of any med with your name) or a supplement or vitamin bottle. The only reason they would even pull you from the xray to search for meds is if in the scan they show multiple meds of different sizes in the vial. I have had meds pulled from me and they just take them and it was only because I still had a vial of my ex's in my purse in his name, and I had a Lighter when they were banned and forgot which is why I had a search. So don't worry you should be totally fine.

Don't put in checked in luggage as many meds are stolen. Sewing into seams seems rather paranoid for domestic flights, and international, well you just might not like what you might get at the end.

Also be aware as many airports now have xray scanners of whole body so do not carry any on person that are NOT in a script bottle. A Tylonel bottle without real Tylonel when searched is not good.

So the question remains, what is an OTC med that looks like valium? I need too find some small flat yellow and blue pills OTC.

I'd go to a grocery store with a good supplement aisle and poke around. Alot of those bottles are glass and you can see the pills inside.

I don't know of any OTC med that looks like valium. But maybe some weird supplement will. How about estrogen supplements? Wait are you a guy? Now that would really throw security off.

Also w/the weird supplement approach, security won't know what it is supposed to look like, if they even look at it.

On second thought, I remember that my dh's anti-acid stomach meds used to be small and round.

good call... loperamide (i forget the anti diarrhea meds trade name) someone help me here. they are small round and blue.

I have travelled in the past with 2 weeks supplies of hydro when I was taking hydro, along with other meds I take. I put them in my check in bag along with the rest of my health and beauty stuff in a bottle with my name on it, and the bottle was not for hydro BTW. Not a single problem, ever.

In the past, I have traveled with various meds. Sometimes in their original container and sometimes in a "pill a day" type container and never once have I been asked about them.

If you are worried about the quantity, you could always take some with you and then mail the rest to your final destination.

Either the OP worries too much or I don't worry enough.

The routine 8 dollar an hour screeners won't have a clue about what is in Rx bottles.

Examples:

Last year I took about 4 leg domestic flight, meds from who knows where in 16 bottles in my carry on. Some meds I take are so big I cut in 1/2. I had a big knife that I got from California in my carry-on (luggage with pill cutter had been lost -- never put meds in luggage). Knife sounds alarms. 1/2 Dozen HLS surround me, pull me into a room and go through everything. Couldn't care less about all the pill bottles or what Mex or Indian meds are in them, gloss right over them.

Once they had the knife and I explained why I am carrying it they let me go. No concern about meds.
They keep the knife
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This year in Argentina, get visa to fly to Uruguay, suspicious looking as heck. Uruguay customs pulls me over. Want to go through everything. Ask if I will still admit to ownership of anything on my person or bag after they open it. Knock yourself out I say. They care less about all the meds (roughly same assortment). Zero in on the Halls Mentholyptus Cough Drops (Economy pack). Much discussion among themselves about the cough drops and I'm in Uruguay -- free to go.

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In both cases I look like 1960's reject in bad health. Sort of like I'm "on something" even when I'm not.

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You be the judge....

patient2all

Hi P2A. I have always respected and enjoyed your posts. I am older to db than my join date implies.

Interesting that they zeroed in on your cough drops. Wonder why. Any ideas?

Thank you! I think I'm older than my date too Can't be sure it was so long ago....





Best guess? Other SA countries don't want to be another Columbia. Someone must have used a "creative" method like stuffing cocaine in cough drops, candies, etc. If anyone is tempted to do cocaine, keep in mind that it may have gotten here through someone's intestinal tract. Makes using it a bit unappetizing, IMO.

I recall Chile was dead serious about drugs (not meds). They had this 'dog and pony show' where they kept everyone entering the country waiting about an hour and a half while they prepped what they called the "puppies" - big German Shepards - to sniff your person.

An announcement kept blaring saying that "If the puppy pees on your leg, be happy. If the puppy sits you are in big trouble".

The only time the "puppies" sat down that I saw was when they were sniffing 75 year old ladies "privates" -- cruise ship departees who would be rather unlikely "couriers" - no wonder so many hard drugs make it here! They are looking in "all the wrong places", one might say

One lady with a walker fainted in the heat -- she no doubt needed some "drugs", but not the kind they are trying to find.

Zero tolerance for "street drugs", including MJ - no interest in medication. I've been in 5 SA countries at least and all over the world thanks to my wife who loves travel, tough as it is on me.

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Again to the OP and others worried about meds, most countries and certainly within the US, there is no interest in what is in Rx bottles. Travelled enough --- hope to travel someday again.

Sewing pills in one's skirt is the worst idea, IMO!

p2a

I got pulled out of line after going through xray (domestic) for a "liquid" in my backpack. I was travelling with my elderly mom and had all her meds in the backpack. I know better than to bring a liquid so I was really confused about the backpack tear apart. I must have had 15 different meds for her in there. Turns out her Miralax (a bottle with a plastic bead type med for constipation) looked like a liquid when going through xray. They ran my pack through twice to make sure it was the miralax. This time the miralax instead of moving things along faster was clearly a HOLD UP.

The shirt seam idea has saved me from getting busted roughly 10x. I've gone more than 1 airport like this, and intend too take my pain meds through this way.I will be taking some random generic OTC bottle with valium in it. I don't sew anything, I make a tiny incision in the bottom seam of my shirt and put a couple of pills in there. You have too wear the shirt through the airport, You don't want it in your carry on luggage getting x-rayed. I know it works because I wore 50 xanaxes through the airport in Washington DC about 4 years ago. This post was more too focus on getting my valium through (theres about 200 of them and I'll freak out without them, I just get too nervious all the time for no reason especially when I travel alone like that). I will need a supply too get me through till I can order too my new location. As noted this is a domestic flight and I'm going with the random OTC generic bottle with pills roughly the same size and putting my valium in those. I'll put it in a ziplock back w/ my herbal suppliments, inhalers, and other medical bs. I appreciate all the help everyone.

As I suggested earlier, the best thing you can do is quit role-playing about all of the ways you imagine you are going to get arrested for carrying pills in an airport.
I cannot imagine under what circumstances hiding pills in your shirt seams enabled you to avoid getting busted 10 times but, apparently, you've decided that stealthy trick will continue to work for you.
It might work until the one time that it doesn't. If you get patted down for some obscure reason and the TSA folks find pills in your shirt seam, you are definitely going to miss your flight.
Why would you run that completely unnecessary risk for no good reason?
Other than to be able to say you snuck it by security again?

This seems absolutely Crazy to me! I have Never been Checked for my Meds ...Although I have them in my Script Bottle but as far as my Experience goes ....TSA could Give a $hit as long as your pills aren't gonna Explode!! JMHO

All I can say is when was the last time you took a flight from one of the major airports? Many are switching out the walk through scans to full body scanners that show "every" thing you have on your person down to the screws in your ankle if you have them. Putting unsecured meds in clothing can be seen plain as day in the new body scanners. So your defense of getting away with it many times may be short lived as the TSA changes out the old walk through devices. Additionally you also do not have the advantage of choosing to avoid it at times. The TSA Agent sends you right on down to that line many times.

Take the advice of all here and just put your meds in a bottle in your carry on. The only reason they would ever take them is if the name on the vial is not yours, and your carry on was searched for whatever...

I fly often. Wife works for airline. Whatever you do just don't keep loose, don't sew in clothing, and don't leave in luggage. Keep in bottles in your backpack or purse. If narcotics I keep them in older-not too old-more like previous fill bottle. If oxy 80 get medium size bottle of advil and mix in towards bottom, almost same size. they're not going to see 5 8 or 10 of those in a preferably generic bottle of advil. Just make sure you've got like 100 of the advils and the OCS toward bottom. If also bringing benzos, try to find older prescription bottle even if different mg. They won't stop you, butif they did, they're not going to check to that detail. If it's a large qty of one type like valium, get OTC of like an off brand acid reducer or generic pepcid. They're about the same size. You're supposed to keep all meds on you. They post this all over and expect it. I don't look like soemone who needs a lot of meds, but I do. I always have 6-8 bottles in my backpack, so do about 80%+ of the folks going through. Then pack the backpack full. Ipod, magazines, a book, all the stuff you'd want with you. They've lost my luggage more than once,so I also have one full outfit stuffed in with everything else. just don't look like a junkie or get loaded before flying. Hold off on taking anything that makes you loopy or slow until you're through security and preferably till on plane. I've done this 10+ times per year since a major back injury over 5 years ago. They're looking for more important things, sharp metal objects, liquids more than allowed, etc. Not your meds. Just don't bring 1000 of anything or 500 of anything for a 4 day trip. Just use judgement and don't worry. If you have several small things and have to have more than one type in a bottle. just put in one of those daily medicine bottles. I've never worried about it to that degree. I just mix one or two in with my real acid reducer bottle. Again, they're so busy and there's so many meds people take, and the fact they practically beg you to keep all your meds with you. They aren't going to search, empty and compare to pics in a pill book when they're trying to keep the line moving snd have more important things to look for. Quit worrying, dress nice, if your traveling with spouse have her carry the real OTC stuff to make your qty of bottles a little smallerif you're that worried, but my wife has worked at the airport for years and never heard of or seen them spending their time on emptying OTC or prescription bottles. I've always had a lot of bottles...no problem. Worrying or spending time trying to be creative is going to get you in trouble. Just chill.

It depends on the country you are traveling through and your nationality as to the level of scrutinize you're going to face. Of course, in Central and South America they are VERY concerned with cocaine smuggling and do all they can. A guy I work with travels to Colombia to visit family and tells me that they have people sniffing for coke, not dogs - people.

As to the original post, if you are a non-national trying to cross US, Canadian, Australian or UK customs (yes, that means even an American traveling to Australia or UK), you take a chance. Australian customs has a random check policy with about 1 out of every 3 people, and they search for anything they can find. I was questioned very hard about carrying codeine because in Oz more than 12.8MG is illegal and I had 30MG tablets. After a long talk, they let me go.

But nearly everywhere else - you will have nothing to worry about.

Good advice Zoomster!!!!

Everyone acts like I'm scared or something, I'm NOT scared. I've been too jail before and all that not good stuff. I just wana make sure I get through everything ok. Here's the plan. I have 3 and a half OC 40's that are going in my the bottom seam of my shirt on my left side and close too rivits on my jeans like they always do. I have about 150 valium that are going in an OTC anticid bottle (thank you for actually answering one of my questions zoomster), and I think I'll be ok. Either that or I'll shift the OC 40's down into my shoes or into my laptop bag. I know they are looking for things that go boom, so they aren't gonna care if the oc's show up on anything. I just don't have a script for this so all these "ingenious" answers of using old script bottles and stuff won't work, and I'm not going too put all 150 pills into a shirt seam thats just madness. But they aren't going too notice a couple of Oxys positioned too where they are covered by bones in any scans or xrays. I should have thought about how overly paranoied everyone on this site is before I asked this question here. I've traveled a lot. The shirt seam thing is the best thing since sliced bread. I agree that they would take interest if they patted me down and found them, but I am infact smart enough too put them in places where they will never be found on a pat down (thats kinda the point with it since I started doing it too keep police from catching me with my days supply of meds. It's always in my shirt seams and it has NEVER been discovered.) You can not just stuff the seam though, it has too be just 1 layer of pills. I was just worried about how too get the valiums through. One more question zoomster, what antacids look most like your standard run of the mill blue valium 10's? I am also replacing the valarian root in a bunch of herbal pills with ground up poppy pod flour . Incase anyone is wondering, I do have pain in the form of a rare stomach condition and arthritis, I am dependent on narcotics, but I do not have insurance so I just get by best I can. I'm not gonna let anything slow me down! I think I am pretty much set too go for my trip. I just have too make it too Keystone before I can re-order meds. That won't be a problem when it comes too the valium, but it looks like I'll have too switch too poppy pods most of the time as oxy is nearly nonexistent out there and through the roof expensive. I know I can't afford too order from any of the BI sites at their rates either. This won't be too much fun b/c poppy pods constipate me worse than any narcotic I've crossed paths with... even suboxone which I threw in my drs face after I had too do whats known as a "manual extraction" on my colon. Google it if you really wana know (you dont). So I may end up being in pain quite a bit out there. I'll probably just ween myself off with the poppy pods, as much as the pain sucks, its not as bad as not shitting for as long as 16 days. Sorry for the length of this post, just felt a little chatty.

In 2005 and 2006 I went through Atlanta, Washington DC, and Vegas. Twice with over 100 pills scattered thinly in the bottom seam of my shirt, and one time I used the top of my blue jeans. I know they are gonna pat me down, but they are in a hurry, and as long as you don't feel like you have a bomb on you they don't care. If I tuck my shirt in..... They're never gonna find that [censored]]. I used too have long hair so I ended up with many police encounters. Even ended up in a holding cell still holding my meds. Small pills like benzos and OC's can't be felt unless you really know what you are looking for.

The fact that one of the first things I said is I don't have a prescription worries me when I get multiple responses saying too leave them in the prescription bottle. What web site are we on again? Thank you too the people with good and valid points though. The full body scan thing is interesting, but I dont think it will pick up a few scattered oxy 40's they are way too small. It's not something they see as a threat (not big enough, nor metalic enough) I will again clarify that it is the valiums I need help with. Obviously a few OC's slide into any crevice, 150 valiums do not. At this point we have deduced that antacids are the best OTC bottle too put valium in. Any reccomendation on what brand is small and blue.