Flying into Vancouver & Prescriptions

I will be flying into and cruising out of Vancouver. I normally keep my prescription meds and any other medications I take in a pill box (the type that has 14 days written on the box.) Will I have any trouble going through customs if the medication is not in the original prescription bottles? The pill box will be in my carry on. I take a thyroid medication, a hormone, Nexium and a fiber capsule. I don't like having to carry all the bottles. :p

but also take a photocopy of all my prescriptions with me.That way there is no doubt as to what I have with me.I keep it with my passports.

How can a photo copy help? it is hard to match a copy of a prescription up to a pill. Pills are sometimes not marked with anything. Hard to prove what type the pills are. For that matter, I guess RX bottles are useless as well. Oh well, I will take along copies JIC and hope for the best. Thanks for the suggestions.

This question always makes me wonder if I'm missing something and if I'm going to be arrested on drug charges at some airport someday:eek: . I've traveled all over the world several times with various medications in whatever type of containers seem most practical - some labeled, some not - and never once been questioned, even when a hand search is done of carry-ons. Is there some law/rule regarding this?

I have never had a problem traveling in the US. I was just worried about carrying them out of the states.

Like I said, I've never had a problem traveling internationally, but maybe there's something I don't know...And I don't think prescriptions from one country to the other mean much - drug names are different, rules are different and my experience has been that they are not recognized or honored in different countries. But, I guess you have to do whatever you're comfortable with. You're right about the bottles too - you could put anything in any bottle.

Just as an aside, I found the whole Customs/security thing between Canada and U.S. even easier than when we fly domestically...they were certainly very polite up in Vancouver:)

Then I am not going to worry about it. Saves a lot of room without the bottles.;)

I highly doubt you will have any problems at all with Customs in Vancouver. The biggest drug smuggling problem here is usually with Heroin or Cocaine :eek: which typically is not imported via South Carolina.

Enjoy your trip.

Funny!:D

I am happy to report that we had no trouble with prescriptions entering Canada. The drug sniffing dogs didn't even hesitate at my bags.

On the way home from Hawaii, their dog put his nose all the way inside my bag (my prescriptions were not in the bag this time, but were in my checked luggage). The dog attendant, said my bag of chips attracted the dog.:D