Traveling with your CPAP....

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SKG109
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Re: Traveling with your CPAP....

Post by SKG109 » Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:45 am

I travel nearly every week and carry my Respironics (without the humidifier) in the Swift Nasal Pillow bag. I carry the hoses, mask, chords in another bag that I leave inside my roll-top.

At TSA, I take the Swift bag and the quart bag with liquids out and put in the tray. In the past year, I have had only one agent make me take the machine out of the bag for x-ray. About 15-20% have seen it during X-Ray and let it go. The rest have called for bag-check and then another agent runs it through the explosives check.

Leaving the machine in the bag during x-ray, provides me a sense of privacy, especially when I am travelling with co-workers.

Enjoy the cruise!
Sam

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Re: Traveling with your CPAP....

Post by hobbs » Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:55 pm

Cpap may be the least of my problems! Leaving for Cairo in two days. Image
Ah, adventure traval.

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