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If you haven't left for your trip yet --I travel all the time with the Forteo. My pens are shipped to me from the pharmacy in a polar bear styrofoam ice chest and they send it with great ice packs that are guaranteed to stay cold for 24 hours. I use the cooler/ice all the time.

You can use any type of styrofoam cooler and frozen ice packs. Put your pen in the cardboard box with a ziplock over it. Put an ice pack on the bottom of the cooler, then a paper bag over it, then the Forteo Box, then a paper bag, then the other ice pack or packs. You don't want to freeze the pen so that's why you put a paper bag over it so the box is next to the paper not right on the pen box. Any type of ice packs will work but the medical ones stay cold alot longer, any type of cooler will work but one with good insultation will work better.

The traveling system Eli Lilly sends you is a little case and I found it didn't work for me. Within an hour the pen was already out of the temperature range being that I live in a hot climate. When you start on Forteo your supposed to get a starter kit and this is one thing in the kit. I never got it until I called the toll free number, my doctor never got it or offerred it to me like was supposed to happen. I called the Eli Lilly rep and pressed enough buttons to get through to the rep that talks with the physicians to clarify several questions I had. I don't think it was the sales rep though.

Take your Forteo on your trip with cooler/ice. Bring a thermometer so when you put it in different refrigerators at motels, etc, you can make sure that it doesn't freeze. If you travel each day on your trip you will need to refreeze the ice packs each night (and put the pen in a refrigerator) because there's no way to keep the medicine cool enough in a cooler for 10 days in a row. I hope this information is helpful to you.