Extended Travel to Europe

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macpharmd

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Thank-you jaimers for giving me the advice to also post my question here.

I am interested in learning about people's experiences in travelling to Europe for extended periods of time, say 6 months or more. Specifically, how did you handle your prescription medications? Did you bring the entire supply with you? How did your insurance company react to that kind of request? Did you run into trouble with lost, stolen medications? Were you able to find medicine there? Did you purchase extra travel insurance?
 
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macpharmd

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Thank-you jaimers for giving me the advice to also post my question here.

I am interested in learning about people's experiences in travelling to Europe for extended periods of time, say 6 months or more. Specifically, how did you handle your prescription medications? Did you bring the entire supply with you? How did your insurance company react to that kind of request? Did you run into trouble with lost, stolen medications? Were you able to find medicine there? Did you purchase extra travel insurance?
 
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macpharmd

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Thank-you jaimers for giving me the advice to also post my question here.

I am interested in learning about people's experiences in travelling to Europe for extended periods of time, say 6 months or more. Specifically, how did you handle your prescription medications? Did you bring the entire supply with you? How did your insurance company react to that kind of request? Did you run into trouble with lost, stolen medications? Were you able to find medicine there? Did you purchase extra travel insurance?
 
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macpharmd

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Thank-you jaimers for giving me the advice to also post my question here.

I am interested in learning about people's experiences in travelling to Europe for extended periods of time, say 6 months or more. Specifically, how did you handle your prescription medications? Did you bring the entire supply with you? How did your insurance company react to that kind of request? Did you run into trouble with lost, stolen medications? Were you able to find medicine there? Did you purchase extra travel insurance?
 
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macpharmd

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Thank-you jaimers for giving me the advice to also post my question here.
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<br />I am interested in learning about people's experiences in travelling to Europe for extended periods of time, say 6 months or more. Specifically, how did you handle your prescription medications? Did you bring the entire supply with you? How did your insurance company react to that kind of request? Did you run into trouble with lost, stolen medications? Were you able to find medicine there? Did you purchase extra travel insurance?
 
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saveferris2009

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I lived in Switzerland for 3 months while working at the World Trade Organization.

My Vest broke and I nearly fell out of my chair when I discovered the Vest wasn't available in Europe. This was back in 2002 though....

Luckily Hillrom was able to overnight me a new device, but had I known the Vest didn't exist in Europe it would have saved me some days trying to figure out how to get the device replaced.

I have other travel tips available here but they're not necessarily related to extended time in europe:


<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://noexcusesnoexcuses.blogspot.com/search/label/Travel">http://noexcusesnoexcuses.blog...om/search/label/Travel</a>
 
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saveferris2009

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I lived in Switzerland for 3 months while working at the World Trade Organization.

My Vest broke and I nearly fell out of my chair when I discovered the Vest wasn't available in Europe. This was back in 2002 though....

Luckily Hillrom was able to overnight me a new device, but had I known the Vest didn't exist in Europe it would have saved me some days trying to figure out how to get the device replaced.

I have other travel tips available here but they're not necessarily related to extended time in europe:


<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://noexcusesnoexcuses.blogspot.com/search/label/Travel">http://noexcusesnoexcuses.blog...om/search/label/Travel</a>
 
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saveferris2009

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I lived in Switzerland for 3 months while working at the World Trade Organization.

My Vest broke and I nearly fell out of my chair when I discovered the Vest wasn't available in Europe. This was back in 2002 though....

Luckily Hillrom was able to overnight me a new device, but had I known the Vest didn't exist in Europe it would have saved me some days trying to figure out how to get the device replaced.

I have other travel tips available here but they're not necessarily related to extended time in europe:


<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://noexcusesnoexcuses.blogspot.com/search/label/Travel">http://noexcusesnoexcuses.blog...om/search/label/Travel</a>
 
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saveferris2009

New member
I lived in Switzerland for 3 months while working at the World Trade Organization.

My Vest broke and I nearly fell out of my chair when I discovered the Vest wasn't available in Europe. This was back in 2002 though....

Luckily Hillrom was able to overnight me a new device, but had I known the Vest didn't exist in Europe it would have saved me some days trying to figure out how to get the device replaced.

I have other travel tips available here but they're not necessarily related to extended time in europe:


<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://noexcusesnoexcuses.blogspot.com/search/label/Travel">http://noexcusesnoexcuses.blog...om/search/label/Travel</a>
 
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saveferris2009

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I lived in Switzerland for 3 months while working at the World Trade Organization.
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<br />My Vest broke and I nearly fell out of my chair when I discovered the Vest wasn't available in Europe. This was back in 2002 though....
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<br />Luckily Hillrom was able to overnight me a new device, but had I known the Vest didn't exist in Europe it would have saved me some days trying to figure out how to get the device replaced.
<br />
<br />I have other travel tips available here but they're not necessarily related to extended time in europe:
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<br />
<br /><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://noexcusesnoexcuses.blogspot.com/search/label/Travel">http://noexcusesnoexcuses.blog...om/search/label/Travel</a>
 
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Marjolein

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Vest does exist now in Europe.
<br />Or at least it does, here in the Netherlands, Hillrom has it on the market here.
 
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lmattaway

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I studied abroad in Italy for 4 months and brought all the meds I'd need with me. Now at the time that was just an inhaler and enzymes. I had my doc write me a script for more enzymes than I actually needed, so that I had enough to take with me for 4 months. I ended up getting a bad sinus infection while I was over there and luckily had a connection with someone who was willing to write me a script for Bactrim. I got it filled at the local pharmacy and just paid cash. I would recommend getting a script like that filled ahead of time and take it with you in case you happen to need it.
 
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lmattaway

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I studied abroad in Italy for 4 months and brought all the meds I'd need with me. Now at the time that was just an inhaler and enzymes. I had my doc write me a script for more enzymes than I actually needed, so that I had enough to take with me for 4 months. I ended up getting a bad sinus infection while I was over there and luckily had a connection with someone who was willing to write me a script for Bactrim. I got it filled at the local pharmacy and just paid cash. I would recommend getting a script like that filled ahead of time and take it with you in case you happen to need it.
 
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lmattaway

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I studied abroad in Italy for 4 months and brought all the meds I'd need with me. Now at the time that was just an inhaler and enzymes. I had my doc write me a script for more enzymes than I actually needed, so that I had enough to take with me for 4 months. I ended up getting a bad sinus infection while I was over there and luckily had a connection with someone who was willing to write me a script for Bactrim. I got it filled at the local pharmacy and just paid cash. I would recommend getting a script like that filled ahead of time and take it with you in case you happen to need it.
 
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lmattaway

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I studied abroad in Italy for 4 months and brought all the meds I'd need with me. Now at the time that was just an inhaler and enzymes. I had my doc write me a script for more enzymes than I actually needed, so that I had enough to take with me for 4 months. I ended up getting a bad sinus infection while I was over there and luckily had a connection with someone who was willing to write me a script for Bactrim. I got it filled at the local pharmacy and just paid cash. I would recommend getting a script like that filled ahead of time and take it with you in case you happen to need it.
 
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lmattaway

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I studied abroad in Italy for 4 months and brought all the meds I'd need with me. Now at the time that was just an inhaler and enzymes. I had my doc write me a script for more enzymes than I actually needed, so that I had enough to take with me for 4 months. I ended up getting a bad sinus infection while I was over there and luckily had a connection with someone who was willing to write me a script for Bactrim. I got it filled at the local pharmacy and just paid cash. I would recommend getting a script like that filled ahead of time and take it with you in case you happen to need it.
 
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