Travelling to USA from EU with prescribed medication

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I travelled recently with more complicated medication, and took the prescriptions my doctor gave us.

Nowadays they are printed in a computer and are pretty much standard in our country (think similar to a local NHS universal format, printed, not handwritten ). I do suspect officials might be slight familiar with the forms; the name of the several medicines do not need to be translated though, and it looks official enough (names of medicines, dosage, OCR codes, name of doctor and so on).

In the end, I was travelling with much more complicated medicines (a liquid container for asthma and another with powder), they just asked me for a visual inspection of the actual bottles at departure once. The medication was pretty familiar for them, I suspect, and I was not even asked for the prescriptions.

I would bet nobody will even look twice to a box of tablets. Most of them are packaged in a very similar way, despite the labels/tongue, and if it looks similar enough to a common medication, you might not even be asked for the prescription.

IMO, you can take your local doctor official prescription; if it is good enough for your local pharmacy/chemist, it will be good enough for them. I would venture that if they have strong doubts about wether something is official in your country, that they have the resources and people to find out the truth. If you look at the text you provide, they even mention

a copy of your prescription with you or a letter from your doctor

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What I do recommend is carrying the medicine and the prescription in your hand luggage for easy inspection.

If you still have qualms about it, why not ringing your doctor instead of asking random people in the Internet?

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I always travel with medications which require prescription, but I never had any prescription with me, since my doctor wouldn't be able to write them in english.

I declare them in the Customs Declaration Form, and no one ever cared about them.

I remember that in New Zealand I asked to the officer "do you want to see my medications?". No, he wasn't interested at all. In the US I didn't even ask.

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