I think you've just about covered it there but I would be important to keep your Humira at the right temperature so maybe a cool bag of some sort?

Hi Elizabeth

Welcome to the forum where you will make lots of new friends and share in loads of information.

Check with the airline that they are prepared to carry the drugs and then double check!! The latter I failed to do two years and my Enbrel was left sitting on the tarmac whilst I jetted off to Portugal! Usually no problem but worth checking to be sure. Not done long haul myself, don't think I could cope with it, but lots of European trips when a cool bag with ice packs works really well. Only problem I've had using this method is if you experience delays of more than a couple of hours. It's a chance you just have to take. Hope your trip takes shape, sounds great!

Look forward to getting to know you,

Lyn x

hiya,
in april i flew to new zealand with my Etanercept (and methotrexate too) and allthough i had infrormed the airline and the travel agent had sorted everything i still had lots of problems - culminating in my on the phone to an air new zealand supervisor in the middle of heathrow airport trying to fight back the tears! so this is what i had...

* fit to fly form completed by my GP (this might have been just because i had requested special assistance, or because of the airlines i was travelling with)
*letter from my Rheumatology nurse explaining what my injections were
*cool bag lunchbox (sounds silly, but it was compact enough to fit in hand luggage nicely so that i could keep an eye on it)
*plastic ice blocks - this was a big problem (Edinburgh airport security weren't going to let me through until i argued that it was medical supplies and terefore allowed to be more then 100ml of liquid - even though it was frozen!) at heathrow, the airline told me i could get ice from the stewards, but that they could not (as i was advised before) take my two spare ice packs and freeze them for me, so that i could swap over the ice mid flight.

i would recommend that you take sealable plastic bags, like the wee zip-lock ones because when they gave me ice, it was just in a normal plastic carrier bag and i was convinced the ice would melt all over my ipod and phone! the man at the check in desk actually told me i could 'pop' to boots and buy some zip-lock bags, this is after i had clearly come from the special assistance area in a wheelchair. fools!

I would also recommend booking special assistance if you have trouble walking fast or standing in queues for a long time - i wasn't too bad on my feet as it happened, but if i hadn't been scooped up in a wheelchair, and queue jumped at security checks etc, i would have definately missed my connecting flight.

basically advice is stand your ground and keep lots of documentation with you in your hand luggage, and don't forget your toothbrush

What a nightmare Laura!
Agnes, you should never put the drugs in the hold because there is a chance they can freeze, after which the injection liquid can become unstable, so you should always carry them in your hand luggage, if necessary in a coolbag.
If they've been in the hold, by the time you open your case the injections can have thawed out so you wouldn't know if they had frozen or not.

Doreen xx