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Hi Princessallia,
I checked out travel refrigerators the first time I was on Forteo and decided against buying one. It's just as effective to use a thick walled ice chest and ice packs (the pharmacy sends me these with my pens) which last up to 24 hours. When I travel that's what I use and if there is a refrigerator at the hotel or at a friends' house, etc., I then use the refrigerator and refreeze the ice packs for the next travel day. Otherwise, I will bring extra ice packs and freeze those and then switch out the melted ones.

I also bought a thermometer that I take with me when I travel because sometimes little hotel refrigerators will be set way too cold and freeze and the pen can not get frozen or the medication will be ruined. I've found that small refrigerators are very hard to regulate the temperatures with that's why I gave up on the idea of buying one for my car.

The gel packs provided by the company producing the pens,that cool in the refrigerator but aren't frozen didn't work for me. They didn't stay cool enough for long enough.