Travel Insurance and Asthma medications...

I am just in process of renewing travel insurance but have met a brick wall - due to the number of asthma meds I take - they use a crude judgement related to how many you take to create the policy amounts and extras etc - unless I choose not to be covered for asthma - which is fine until I leave Europe if/at any time...

Anyhow - Lansoprazole isn't for asthma but for the acid which they think in me like many others causes more probs...does this ocunt as a med I need to declare as an asthma med?

What about antihistamines - again don't treat the asthma but do stop the allergies that does provoke the asthma?

The insurance question asked btw is: . How many medicines do you take for your asthma (count each inhaler as one medicine)?

So I assume that the ventolin also has to be included although it's not - shouldn't be - a daily med?

Many thanks in advance - all advice gratefully received...

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Dear me, what a rubbish insurance question. Rubbish because I am better controlled on all my meds than several asthmatics I come across who are on, say, one or two inhalers. Oh well...

I'll see if I can find some old threads on Travel Insurance to bump, as there have ben several discussions on this in the past,

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Thanks CathBear...

My choice apears to be pay half as much again as last year or worse still go for specialised cover and double that!!!

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Try the Post office - they ask how many inhalers eg 3 for me and then if I use tablets - yes ( doesn't ask the types etc) and also if using a neb - yes.

They are the questions from Fortis who underwrite the PO medical excess.

Kate

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Hi

Try Freedom they are a specialist insurance company for people with existing medical conditions. |They were the only company who would insure me , it cost £70 for 2 weeks in Kos. I take 8 asthma meds, not including antihistermines and lansoprazole, fosamax etc........ and had only been out of ITU a week before I went.

Good Luck

Jayne