Originally Posted by
chollie
It's hardly surprising that some TSOs hear 'nitro' and freak out. (There has been at least one other reported instance of nitro pill confiscation that I have read about).
After all, it took a while before some of them started understanding that the 'glycerin' in some lotions and soaps is a harmless substance and not part of evil 'nitro-glycerin'.
It's like getting in trouble because you work for a TV station and you show up at the checkpoint wearing a t-shirt with 'TNT' on it.
The blog has a note about nitro pills and patches, but 1) it is a blog post, not binding at the checkpoint and 2) it includes the lie that the pills/patches have never been prohibited.
Doesn't it seem odd that TSA can (possibly at <deleted>'s urging) put in a blog post about the matter but still can't update the website to clearly state that medical nitro is allowed in pill or patch form, instead of linking to a clearly inapplicable answer about medical LGAs.
I don't know how many times I have to say it before TSA gets it: my nitro pills were not confiscated because they were a medicine, they were confiscated because they are on an SSI list of prohibited substances.
As I recall, didn't the TSO simply keep repeating, "No explosives, no exceptions"? So we don't really know for sure that nitro is on the SSI list of prohibited items. Anything is possible, but I tend to doubt that such an important life-saving medication could be banned, even secretly, based on a ridiculous urban myth.
Of course, we're talking about TSA, so...