Surgery date - May 26

[treefrog]

You should also consider getting your doctor to write a note too, saying that you are prescribed the medication for pain. Even though your prescriptions will be in labeled bottles, it doesn't hurt to have that letter too. I always carry one in my wallet, just in case (and particularly when I have just a few pills with me [like taking to work] - because then they are not in labeled bottles).

I won't put any in my checked luggage. TSA employee's have been known to steal medications from baggage. I just don't want to be the person that allows medication to get into the wrong hands.

Unless you put them into a locked box in your luggage, but even then I don't think I would do it. I am going to try and find a little lockable box (like a cash box), so I can lock them up in the hotel room. Not that I don't trust the people at this hotel in particular, but it's just a good idea anywhere that you stay. And even in your won home, if you have guests, it's a good idea that your meds are not accessible.