Originally Posted by
Global Adventurer
I travel for 6 months at a time, and I use Amazon 's PILL PACKS to hold my various vitamins. There's a place to mark what's inside with a sharpie. I take several empty ones too to fill with daily dosages for a week at a time. Has been working for me for several years.
LIke the previous poster indicated, ORIGINAL Sudafed with ephedrine by products such as psuedoephedrine is ILLEGAL in many countries around the world as it's a precursor for the illegal manufacturing of methamphetamine. In the USA you can't buy it unless you provide identifying information at a pharmacy and you are limited on how many you can purchase. So, do not bring it.
Thanks, I think the 'pill pack' is similar to the photo I posted above? the small individual plastic bags with a ziplock on the top? That's the best I've found too (so far). However when you have lots of pills per day of various sizes - they aren't uniform in size, so when you put them in a box, or bigger ziplock bag there tends to be a lot of 'empty space' between pills.
Maybe there's no better solution than this (and it is convenient). I just can't help thinking it's an engineering issue - if I could just pack them correctly they would take up much less space in the luggage. As someone who does long trips - sure you know how valuable suitcase real-estate is.
For instance, if I took that same plastic box and just dumped all my pills in there together, with some desiccant packs - I'm positive they would all fit with much room to spare - although the customs guys would probably crap themselves.
Going to do a test where i use larger 4x6 bags, fill each one with a specific pill and then layer them on top of each other.
As for the whole Sudefed thing - those are just pictures found on google - I was trying to show my options - pill packs, boxes, larger bags. I'm not taking sudafed with me.