Guest guest Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Hi everyone, I've been a champion lurker on this list, for which I apologize - I'm very bad at keeping up with my email! Hopefully someday soon I'll feel a little less frazzled and will be able to participate more actively here. For now, a few questions for the seasoned veterans. I'm flying across the country to Los Angeles in a few days for a brief stay with friends. My rheumy says my RA is now " stable " and I feel pretty good - not as good as I did pre-RA, but I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably never get back to that point (I was in pretty bad shape by the time I got in to the rheumy and got a real diagnosis, about 7 months ago). I'm as ready for this trip as I'll ever be. That said, I haven't flown anywhere since before 9/11, and haven't flown unaccompanied since 1998 (I use a wheelchair due to cerebral palsy, so flying has always been an... *interesting* experience). I'm nervous about being on a 5+ hour flight, being pretty much non-ambulatory, traveling with all of my RA drugs, traveling with RA in general. I have a note from my rheumy listing all of my meds and saying that I am authorized to travel with them, and all of my meds are in their original, most current bottles. Is there anything else I need to be prepared for vis-a-vis traveling with RA, in general? I'm on injectable mtx and enbrel, am I correct in assuming that my mtx syringes need to go in my checked luggage? Has anyone ever had any problems with getting their enbrel through security? I'm on the 25mg 2x a week dosage, and I'm wondering if I need to go ahead and open the packages so I can stow the needles in my luggage and the actual meds in my carry-on. And yes, I realize I'm probably overthinking this whole thing, but air travel has always been a huge hassle for me and I have no end of horror stories related to traveling with a disability, so I *never* run out of things to stress over... The friends I'm staying with in LA are in wheelchairs and/or are very good at dealing with disability/accessibility issues, so I'm not really worried about anything cropping up once I'm there - I'll be well looked after! It's just the air travel that's stressing me out. Any hints/tips/experience/etc welcome. Thanks! Meg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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