Jet lag sucks!

[kikuchiyo]

I'm told it takes about a day to get over jet lag for every time zone you cross.
It's going to be another rough week.

Anyone with any thoughts or suggestions? I hear the best way to not get jet lag is to neither eat or sleep on the plane, but on a 14 hour flight that wasn't happening.

I tried staying up for 26 hours and sleeping at the appropriate time but that didn't work. I'm up again at 7:30 having not slept the previous night. I've done this several times before and while this time is not the worse (last time I came home I was like sick-sick for a week) it still blows.


(Kikuchiyo, briefly in the U.S.)

 

[xanth]

Anyone with any thoughts or suggestions? I hear the best way to not get jet lag is to neither eat or sleep on the plane, but on a 14 hour flight that wasn't happening.

Doesn't work as far as I'm concerned. I didn't sleep a wink on the 14 hour flight to and from Japan last year (can't sleep on planes, sucks to be me T_T). The first time I hadn't slept the night before either.

Both times I was completely socked with the Jet lag.

Significantly less bad when I was coming back to the US though; it only ended up lasting 2-3 days compared to the week I was out of it in Japan. Not sure why.

I've heard lots of Vitamin C helps for some reason, but I haven't tried it. Best thing might just be to take a nap whenever you can after the flight, which might make your body normalize faster. More sleep generally solves most problems.

But yeah, jet lag is very obnoxious. Good luck!

 

[azianinvazn]

When i go to taiwan i never get any problems and the time difference from west coast usa is 16 hours. what i do is sleep on the way to taiwan and hold it out on the way back, cuz its all works out that way. i leave us at like 2 in the morning and end up in taiwan wen its 8 in the morning in taiwan. se how that wrks?

 

[Mangofett]

Don't bother trying to sleep at the right times. Just sleep on the plane and go to sleep at the next correct time the next day.

 

[Reaper]

I really just sleep when I'm tired and eventually it'll work it.

 

[layzieyez]

I usually stock up on some sleeping pills whenever I have to take a long flight. I just sleep on the plane and then I force my body to sleep when it's night at my destination. Atlanta Hartsfield to Narita with a stopover in San Francisco was the longest I ever had to fly. Drinking doesn't really work because it's not "restful" sleep. Also, a favorite pillow to sleep on does miracles.