sickandpretty

I wear both a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and an insulin pump. Basically, the pump looks like a pager that's attached to a an infusion set via a tube. In my case, the infusion set is a metal needle that goes under my skin, but a lot of people have plastic sets. The CGM is two parts: a wire that goes into my skin with an external dock that a transmitter hooks into, and a receiver. I can't go through backscatter or millimeter wave machines because of the pump, so I always opt out and go for the pat down (I'm sure I'd have to go through that anyway once the image turned up the devices on my body.)

I've had some agents insist that they need to see where the tube from the pump is actually going into my body, others tell me to disconnect and send it through the xray (which I can't do), and had one try to tell me that I had to remove the transmitter from the docking portion of my CGM. From what I understand of the regulations, the most I should be required to do is allow them to visually inspect my devices and swab my hands for explosives residue after I handle them, but I'm not sure if there's some subset of the TSA rules that I should carry with me for folks who don't know or what.

Do you guys receive any sort of standardized training on how to deal with medical equipment/devices? I have a few connected devices and get treated differently every time I fly.