Has anyone taken ambien on a plane?

Just my opinion, but I would not be under the influence of anything that could impair my judgement while out in public. What if (God forbid) there was any type of emergency situation. Would you be able to react quickly?

What if you said or behaved in a way that you would not have sober?

I'd skip the Ambien and try for a nap once we landed.

I couldn't do it, and lavenderlayoutlady's examples are very good reasons why not. I do react weirdly with Ambien. I've been in a strange state where I knew I wasn't fully awake, but had no ability to stop myself and make myself go back upstairs to bed. I would be afraid I would wander up to the captain's cabin and get arrested. Or try to exit out an emergency door. I won't even take them at home without a couple of precautions.

I have heard that there have been people that drive while under Ambien's influence. I'm terrified that I would do that. Before I take one, I take my car key off the ring and put it in a paper cup filled with water and stick it in the freezer. Sounds stupid, I know, but even if I remembered where I put it, I couldn't just take it and start driving. I would have to hopefully wait for it to thaw out. I didn't start doing that until my mom caught me downstairs making toast when I had taken an Ambien. She said I had the strangest look on my face and I was talking to someone that wasn't there. Since I know I do weird stuff, I wouldn't take it on the plane. But more for the reason of needing to be able to be totally awake in an emergency situation more than anything else.

If I take Lunesta or Benadryl I do it when I get on the plane so I don't have to worry about it when I go through security. I've only had to do it once though and it was really late flight but i wanted to be relaxed and sleep even after i got off my flight. I have a hard time sleeping anyway, and it's worse when I travel. So that seemed to work. I had family picking me up so I could just go to their place and crash after the flight. DH was with me but I don't know if I would do it if I was alone.

I take something similar whenever I fly longhaul as otherwise I wouldn't get any sleep at all. I've never had any issues. If you've taken it before without problems I can't see any reason not to, particularly when you're traveling with your husband.

I have taken Ambien for trans-Atlantic flights. If there's an emergency over the ocean, I'm probably SOL anyway. The last time though, I used Benadryl instead. I didn't sleep as soundly, but it has less of a hang-over effect for me.

If you have strange reactions, I would not take it on a plane. I was on a flight from Hawaii to LA and a woman took Ambien, started acting strange, and we almost had to turn around and go back. The only thing that saved us was we were 5 min from the 1/2 way point and it wasn't a medical emergency.