Allicat
14 years agoMember
Travel
I'm planning a trip to America later this year & while I'm away my monthly triptorelin injection will be due. My nurse at the hospital says she can give me the drug and needle to take and a letter fo...
Yes being a cancer survicir can effect some travel insurance, depend on treatments, if you have finished treatment, when last treatment was etc & some will give you insurance but exclude anything to do with your cancer as a pre-existing condition.
Astotravelling with meds, it can be done. I went to the US wioth needles, syringes, and IM meds. AS long as it was in the original packaging, with label, and i had a letter it was fine. Your best bet is to rink the US consualte and ask them. As to finding someone in the US to give it to you, that can be difficult and expensive. Can you or someone you are travelling with be taught to give it to you? My hubby and I got trained in case I needed one. (Mine was not related to cancer but to severe intractable migraines).
I have also travelled with morphine tablets to Thailand (a scarey one, did not want an extended holiday in the Bangkok Hilton <EEKK>) I contacted the Thai embassy and asked what they needed for me to bring them in the country. Did that (again - not more than I would need for my stay, in original boxes, with original prescription labels, a notorised photocopy of the original prescription (by the pharmacist), a letter from my doctor etc).
That is my experience with Meds and the US, and also with travel insurance (again mine wasn't to do with cancer back then, but another pre-existing condition).
Hope it helps. ?