CPAP and TSA

Jim in Boulder · Post by **Jim in Boulder** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:42 pm

I travel weekly and have been carrying a CPAP machine in my carry-on baggage for the last several months. Today at IAD I was informed by the TSA that there was a "new policy" regarding CPAP machines. According to the agent, "someone had tried to sneak a knife in one" so all baggage containing CPAPs now had to be hand inspected. The agent did an explosives test on my machine (not sure how that catches knives). What really irked me is that he insisted on seeing my boarding pass and then recorded my name in a log book. I protested but got the usual TSA "you don't have to follow our policies but you'll have to find some other way to travel if you don't do what we say."

Why the hell does the TSA need to record the fact that I carry a CPAP machine with me?

NeurosurgeryNP · Post by **NeurosurgeryNP** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:45 pm

I recently flew on a plance to Baltimore from Long Island. My cpap bag was also check for explosives, but not hand searched. And no noe asked for my boarding pass again or wrote my name down in a book. In fact, the agent also uses CPAP and we got into an impromptu discussion about masks, etc.