What is the Airport & Meds Security Planner?

It is a free planning tool that helps travelers prepare medication packing, documents, checkpoint flow, backup steps and questions to confirm before travel day.

Can this tool tell me whether my medication is allowed in another country?

No. Medication and security rules vary by country, airline, airport and route. This tool helps you prepare questions and a checklist, but you should confirm rules with official sources and your own clinician or pharmacist.

Do my entries leave my device?

The planner is designed to use browser local storage on your device. Ticked Bucket List does not receive or sync what you type into the tool.

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Airport & Meds Security Planner

Build a simple carry-on, document and checkpoint plan before travel day. This tool is for travelers with chronic pain, fatigue, migraine, arthritis, pelvic pain, neuropathic pain, CRPS or other flare-prone conditions who want less last-minute airport stress.

Quick answer: List what must stay with you, what needs documents, what must be confirmed before travel, and what you will say or do if security, boarding or customs becomes stressful. This tool helps you prepare the questions and the plan. It does not confirm medication rules for any country, airport or airline.

Privacy note: Anything you type into this planner is stored only in your browser on this device. Ticked Bucket List does not receive, sync or track this information.

Choose the right level of help

This free tool helps with one practical travel-day problem: medication, documents and checkpoint preparation. If your whole trip needs joining up, use a fuller planning option.

Free tool

Use this page when airport and medication admin is the main worry.

You will leave with a carry-on list, document list, checkpoint flow and backup steps.

Start this planner

Full trip plan

Use the Starter Kit when more than one issue applies.

Best for turning free tool outputs into a Trip Snapshot with comfort, flare and recovery planning.

Turn this into a Trip Snapshot

Complex trip

Consider Advisory when the trip is hard to get wrong.

Best for close, costly, complex or medically sensitive trips where prioritisation matters.

Consider Advisory

1. Trip basics

Start with the route and the points where your medication, supplies or documents may be checked.

Trip name or travel date

Route, airports and transit stops

Include countries you enter or transit through, not only the final destination.

Main travel mode

Main admin worry

2. What must stay with you

Keep this practical. You do not need to write sensitive details if you prefer not to. Use categories or initials if that feels safer.

Medication and supplies for carry-on or small bag

Examples: routine medicines, rescue medicines agreed with your clinician, migraine items, dressings, heat/cold items allowed for travel, device chargers.

Items needing special handling

Examples: cooling, sharps container, injectable supplies, mobility aids, CPAP or other devices, batteries, braces or supports.

Medication timing anchor for travel day

Keep this non-clinical. Write reminders you have already agreed with your clinician or pharmacist.

3. Documents and checks before travel

These prompts help you know what to confirm. They do not confirm the rules for you.

Medication list ready: names, doses and prescriber details available if needed. Packaging checked: important medicines kept identifiable where practical. Support letter considered: clinician/pharmacist letter or prescription copy prepared if relevant. Country and transit rules checked: destination and transit requirements confirmed through official sources. Airline or transport rules checked: medical devices, assistance, batteries, cooling, liquids or sharps clarified where relevant. Offline copies ready: prescriptions, letters, insurance, emergency contacts and itinerary saved or printed.

Important: medication rules vary by country, airport, airline, route and medicine type. Confirm rules before travel, especially for controlled medicines, injectables, liquids, medical devices, batteries and temperature-sensitive items.

4. Checkpoint flow

Give each airport moment one simple action so you are not deciding everything while tired or in pain.

5. Simple script and backup plan

Prepare calm words and a fallback option before you need them.

Checkpoint script

Use plain language. Avoid oversharing unless needed.

If something is questioned, delayed or misplaced, my first backup steps are…

How to use this planner

Aim for a useful plan, not a perfect one. The goal is less panic at check-in, security, boarding and arrival.

Best use

Write the route and transit points.
List what must stay with you.
Mark the documents and rules you need to confirm.
Prepare one calm script and one backup plan.

Use official sources for rules

Use this page to organise what to ask. Confirm the answer with the airline or transport provider, airport/security guidance, destination or transit country rules, and your clinician or pharmacist where relevant.

When this free tool may not be enough

If this trip also involves fatigue limits, mobility barriers, flare risk, accommodation uncertainty, complex medication questions or a difficult recovery week, consider turning the plan into a Trip Snapshot.

Turn this into a Trip Snapshot

When to speak to your own clinician

Speak to your own clinician, pharmacist or specialist team if you are unsure about medication timing, medication changes, medical devices, controlled medicines, oxygen, clot risk, unstable symptoms, recent procedures or whether travel is medically appropriate.

Short FAQs

Can this tell me whether my medicine is allowed?

No. It helps you prepare what to check. Confirm rules through official sources before travel.

Does this replace medical advice?

No. It supports travel preparation only. Medical decisions remain with your own clinician.

Do I have to type medicine names?

No. You can use categories, initials or your own private shorthand. The plan is stored only on this device.

What should I use next?

Use Travel Day Energy Plan for pacing, Post-Travel Recovery Week for the first week home, or the Starter Kit if more than one issue applies.