Regulations seem strange for taking medications into Canada and returning to US. What have forum members experienced? I will be on the road for over 5 weeks and get medications in 90 day bottles and will be taking all of them with me. Sounds like I need paperwork that I don't have since I get them fulfilled electronically. thanks

When I went to Australia, I got my pharmacist to give me a one page list of my prescription medications. They were carried in my day-pack or carry on luggage.That's all you need crossing any boundaries.:C

While I alway ask my doctor's for hand (well now machine) written prescriptions to carry prior to a trip, I've crossed the Canadian border many times, and never been asked about meds.

As long as they are in original bottles I have had no problems. Not just Canada, but everywhere else as well.

We've never been asked about medicines, while crossing the border in either direction. We do carry prescriptions in the original containers.Tom

We have been asked about our perceptions going into the USA. We were going down for a couple of days and the boarder guard asked if we had perceptions drugs with us. We said we did, he asked what were they in. We said we had them in our weekly despncing trays.The gaurd said they are supposed to be in their original containers with all the labels not readable and damaged. We thought to ourselves oh boy are trip is over before it begins.Then he said remember that next time you come into the USA and let us go.Since then I have been all over the world including many trips back to the USA and have never been asked again.However I do now carry them in the bottles they came in, and I also have my doctors business card in my wallet.Soup.

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pulsar
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Jun 11, 2016
We've never been asked about medicines, while crossing the border in either direction. We do carry prescriptions in the original containers.

Tom
Marine_By_Choic
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Jun 11, 2016
As long as they are in original bottles I have had no problems. Not just Canada, but everywhere else as well.
vermilye
Explorer II
Jun 11, 2016
While I alway ask my doctor's for hand (well now machine) written prescriptions to carry prior to a trip, I've crossed the Canadian border many times, and never been asked about meds.
Little_Kopit
Explorer
Jun 11, 2016
When I went to Australia, I got my pharmacist to give me a one page list of my prescription medications. They were carried in my day-pack or carry on luggage.

That's all you need crossing any boundaries.

:C

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