Question about bringing medication to Sweden
Jun 19, 2017, 4:32 pm
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Question about bringing medication to Sweden
Trying to help my mom navigate travel with her medications and I was hoping someone could help me out with this. She has several none narcotic medications but none of the original bottles. It seems like this site means she can just get a note listing her meds from her DR and be fine. Am I reading that correctly? It just seems odd that she could bring in a random assortment of pills and a DR note that says "She is taking the following X pills". They'll just assume the pills are what the note says they are?
http://www.tullverket.se/en/private/...fe9e75b38.html
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http://www.tullverket.se/en/private/...fe9e75b38.html
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Jun 22, 2017, 5:34 am
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Jun 22, 2017, 5:45 am
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Very few are. There is something called the PDR, though, that has photos/descriptions of thousands of pills.
but I've never been stopped or questioned about bringing pills into a country, despite never having the original bottle. (I take 4 different medicines daily and just combine them in one bottle or baggy.) How many pills is she bringing? 10? 200?
but I've never been stopped or questioned about bringing pills into a country, despite never having the original bottle. (I take 4 different medicines daily and just combine them in one bottle or baggy.) How many pills is she bringing? 10? 200?
Jun 22, 2017, 7:38 am
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Lots of generics are indeed not stamped with product name on each of the pills/tablets. Branded drugs are more likely to have the product name stamped on them, but even that isn't all that given.
Unless her medication is going to alert one of the customs' dogs used for narcotics detection or she appears to be relatively young and non-"white", I seriously doubt that there is any significant chance of the Swedish customs authorities giving her a problem over prescription medicine in a multi-pill pillbox as long as she is not transporting more than several weeks of medicine. My acquaintances in Tull have confirmed basically the same.
Trying to help my mom navigate travel with her medications and I was hoping someone could help me out with this. She has several none narcotic medications but none of the original bottles. It seems like this site means she can just get a note listing her meds from her DR and be fine. Am I reading that correctly? It just seems odd that she could bring in a random assortment of pills and a DR note that says "She is taking the following X pills". They'll just assume the pills are what the note says they are?
http://www.tullverket.se/en/private/...fe9e75b38.html
Thanks!
http://www.tullverket.se/en/private/...fe9e75b38.html
Thanks!