Airline Travel With Equipment

I usually only take 1 or 2 stethoscopes and a blood pressure cuff with me.

Often in the suitcase, but sometimes in my hand luggage. It happened twice that the ladies at the scan station (there are less today) pointed the stethoscope out on screen to their partner, smiling. And once with a wink to me, but not more

I always check my equipment through. That way the buzzers and bells won't go off at TSA security and you have to open your bag and show them some items that the inspector may have never seen and confiscate them.

I've never had any problems when i travel with my doctor suitcase on the plane

I just got back and took most of my equipment with me. Of course it was checked in baggage..When I got home and opened my suitcase, their was a notice from TSA that my bag had been inspected. LOL I would have loved to been a fly on the wall to hear that conversation.

I had the same experience as Doctor Klosov once leaving Germany with a proctoscope in my case. Maybe they thought it was a gun? 😃

I have traveled extensively by plane with my equipment (which there is quite a bit of ). As long as you check it through to your destination, you are usually OK. Sure, TSA may open the bag, but it is better than having the alarms go off as you go through the screening yourself and have everyone looking at you being pulled aside and searched.

All these posts deal with taking medical equipment through airport security, but I wonder what experiences people have had with crossing borders and entry into other countries, where their luggage is checked. It seems to me that you could be suspected of intending to practice medicine in the country without authorization, or who knows what other kind of unwelcome activity.

On my round the world tours, through 7 or 8 countries I only take things that I can justify for my own needs.

Such things as catheters and catheterisation packs (which I don't need but at 74 I can justify), thermometers, TENS, gloves etc. I even take a sterile emergency pack which has needles, syringes etc. It's proprietory for use in 3rd world countries where you can't be sure of sterility locally. Needless to say I supplement the needle quantities. That has never been questioned. But everything goes in checked baggage.

The only thing I've had confiscated was a pill cutter, and that was a genuine need. It is (was) to cut a tablet in half. It was less than one inch cube, with a recess to put the tablet in. You click it and the job is done. The blade is all but invisible but Singapore airport police said it was a flicknife (switchblade) !!!!

That is a very good question, Woodpecker, about traveling with medical equipment to other countries. I don't know the answer. I know that when I have flown inside the USA with my own medical supplies, my bag is always checked by the TSA and I find the note inside the bag saying that my bag has been handchecked by them.

And, BigK, well that is just Singapore!

Lady Teddy, who never travels without her medical toys

.......Were you able to find another pill cutter or something comparable at a pharmacy etc? >>> Shakes head and rolls eyes once more :😃 and busts out laughing! I will add this to my every growing list of airport stories. Thanks for the laugh! Andrea 😁

No Andrea, I couldn't find another pill cutter on my travels so at the next stop I used a knife to cut several, through the plastic blister pack, sealing it again with clear sticky tape.

But, there is a sequel to that. After nearly three hours, detained but not arrested, during which time I admitted my 'guilt', gave a statement and signed the laboriously typed copy - the airport policeman said "Now, what about the cosh?" (blackjack, bludgeon). I protested "I haven't got a cosh". He said "yes you have, its on the x-ray image here". Sure enough there was a dark looking object on the image, about 8" x 0.5". I'd no idea what it was until he rummaged and found my satellite navigation bracket, a sucker on one end for the windshield, a holder for the sat nav at the other end, with the flexible steel cable between! He was nonplussed apparently and just grunted OK, unable to find anything to imprison me! Though he did see my catheters which were packed along with the pills.

No doubt 'my card is marked' for Singapore now and I can expect a detailed rummage if I pass that way again!

Oh, sure you're detained for carrying around something that, at most, could decapitate a centipede yet they all run around the streets with machetes. Makes perfect sense to me. 😃

A few months ago I was in line behind a young man while getting ready to board a plane at our small town airport.When the dedicated public servant opened the guys suitcase there was a large red classic enema bag of the kind we all know and love and a strap on.Nobody said anything when he said:"Im a male prostitute OK?"and calmly boarded our puddle jumper bound for,you guessedit,SAN FRANCISCO

Hello All ,

So does anyone travel with their toys ?

I did travel with 3 butt plugs and got a call from Tsa. I was very nervous and spoke with a gate agent. He told me that the lock I had was not a Tsa approved lock and they would have tp cut mine. I replied go ahead and cut it.

Luckily they just searched my bag and that was that but I was quite nervous as ideas of meeting with security raced through my head.

I can only imagine the things they see in checked bags.

Anyone else have a good story ?

Ok so kind of an old thread but has anyone ever flown with a medical grade heart monitor in their checked baggage ?

Dave

Steve: I'm surprised they even asked. In any instance I had a lock, including a TSA approved lock, they just cut it off.

Maybe the tsa guys might enjoy a good look at klystra bag and a titanic nozzel. it might be good for them. theymight learn something

Just took a plane to Vegas and did carry on this time. I was loaded with enema gear. 4 quart bags, 6 nozzles of various sides, double balloon, and a JBL cascade. Went through without any issues or questions. Also in the suitcase were batteries, electrical cords, lap top computer power supply

Best way is to pack properly and put everything into your check in baggage.

Next time you could comment . ."does that add new meaning to baggage hold" . .lol

Butt to answer - there's no law against owning a bag & most medical paraphenalia

I'll Fly with Enema Bags any day!! So they think yer a little or a lot "Kinky!!" You have just given them a visual for their masturbatory fantasy that night!!...... Enjoy!! On the other hand......they will write off the Enema Bag when they see my (these daze) "Parachute" ..at first unless they know they don't know what it is and they automatically first think I am a Terrorist with some kind of specially contrived explosive device?? Once I get them past that point....Oh it's only a Parachute?? Oh well ...really boyz and girls....these daze Sport Chutes are smaller than you average College kid's book sack!!! Great "Conversation piece" ....."Why yes I Skydive!!" ......didadidadida......Come Fly with Me!! All I need for a "Trip" is my "Rig" and an "AWOL Bag" with my toothbrush and a change of clothes.......

5 Right!!!!........and ....."CUT!!!!"

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To add on to my last post, since most here are totally "Unfamiliar" with state of the art "SKY TOYZ!!!!!!" just check out this video.....there are 2 chutes on their backs, the bottom part is the "Main" and the upper part is the back-up reserve chute. just go to www.youtube.com and find Navarre Beach Helicopter Jump by Patrick Remington you can type in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47tPJ4L_8z4&feature=em-share_video_user Note the "Backpaks!!" 2 Chutes each......the Mains are in the 100 sq.ft class and well.......just watch!!!!!!!! Navarre Beach......by Pensacola Fla.

Note...The Guys a jumping the smaller chutes...the Girl has by the looks of her rig a 130 to 160 sq. ft. main canopy......

Ready.....Set....GO!!!!,

highwater

OK so they're not "Enema Bags" but they are a great "Diversionary Tactic!!!"

BTW to get an idea of the "size" of the Main chute ...look at the shadow in the sand when the jumper is lading!!

I have traveled on airlines may times with equipment. It is usually a latex bag and an inflatable nozzle -- nothing illegal though not quite vanilla like a Walmart bag and it could be used just for "medical" needs. I have had my equipment both checked and carryon. I do not do carryon when I am with someone who is not into enemas because I would not want them to see my gear. But that said I have never had a problem or even had a carryon checked when it my gear in it. If alone I would think it would be kind of funny to watch a TSA inspector rummaging through my stuff. I think they would be more embarrassed than me when they realized what it was.

We have traveled with enema bags and/or sex toys in checked luggage. No issues.

In some countries sex toys may be considered obscene material, thus prohibited?

I wouldn't take such material in hand luggage. In many airports, the screens showing the X-ray contents of cabin luggage can be seen not only by the security operators but also by fellow passengers. Also, if they make you open your bag to check the contents further, this generally happens in the open - perhaps you can request doing it in a separate room but I would not count on it and it's likely to waste time and look suspicious. You don't want to have to open your hand luggage with an enema bag and/or a sex toy in front of everybody just because some item in it looked suspicious on the X-ray.

All I can say is sometimes they x-ray checked baggage inside the terminal while you are still carrying it and then EVERYBODY will see what you have.

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Now I wonder - would an enema bag show up much on X-rays? it's just rubber... no metallic part.

Any sex toy involving electronics, motors, batteries etc. probably shows up much better.

But, say, a plain vibrator-less latex or silicon dildo?

EVERYTHING will show up. Definitely silicone because the catalyst in the medical and better quality silicones is platinum which is radiopaque. Besides they set the KVP on the low side so soft and less radiodense items will show up.

I recall going through customs and having my suitcase X-rayed, which contained a butt plug. The customs lady was cheerful... maybe she had seen it. ;-)

Every time we fly, it is as a couple, so a syringe in a checked bag would be no big deal. I guess they assume it's for douching.

Jimmyt44: Even if they knew it was for enemas, what could happen? I do not think security or customs are allowed any remark or sign of approval or disapproval about equipment found in luggage except if it poses a security problem, or it is prohibited by law. I'm more concerned about other passengers; and even then I'd be more concerned if I was traveling with family, friends or colleagues, as opposed to people I'll never meet again.

Also, for most people, enemas do not carry any more stigma than douching - it's just a hygienic or medical procedure that they practice or do not practice, perhaps an unpleasant remembrance of childhood - there is not the prurient interest that a sex toy would elicit (for some reason it seems quite socially acceptable to pass judgment on others' sexuality).

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