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Got this e-mail while traveling in France (after a United flight, appropriately). I'll be updating my Ambien advice to make it even more clear and put out a little reminder on cooling vests. Definitely do not go through a body scanner with one on, ha.
Hi Dave,
I appreciate all your travel tips for people with MS. I stumbled on your site today as we had an incident in PHX with someone wearing a cooling vest and going thru the full body scanner and not advising the TSA they had it on. You can imagine what that looked like to the xray person.
Anyway, I wanted to make one suggestion. You suggested that passengers take Ambien in order to sleep. I would request that you put a note in that says Absolutely do not drink alcohol when taking Ambien.
We have what we call the three A’s here, Altitude, Ambien and Alcohol. That combination makes people behave in a fashion that they never would in a normal situation. And most likely will not remember it afterwards but will probably have a federal police record afterwards!! It is a terrible combination that is having sever repercussions. Consider adding that to your recommendation. Thanks.
Lorie DeWitt-Antilla
United Airlines
Sr. Staff Specialist – WHQSE
I appreciate all your travel tips for people with MS. I stumbled on your site today as we had an incident in PHX with someone wearing a cooling vest and going thru the full body scanner and not advising the TSA they had it on. You can imagine what that looked like to the xray person.
Anyway, I wanted to make one suggestion. You suggested that passengers take Ambien in order to sleep. I would request that you put a note in that says Absolutely do not drink alcohol when taking Ambien.
We have what we call the three A’s here, Altitude, Ambien and Alcohol. That combination makes people behave in a fashion that they never would in a normal situation. And most likely will not remember it afterwards but will probably have a federal police record afterwards!! It is a terrible combination that is having sever repercussions. Consider adding that to your recommendation. Thanks.
Lorie DeWitt-Antilla
United Airlines
Sr. Staff Specialist – WHQSE