jetlag
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- monkeyshine
I can't overcome it.
I'm on day 3 and am pooped. Tried to do all the right things...didn't drink on plane (11 hour flight), drinking lots of water, stayed up first day until local night, eating well, exercise, etc. I still wake up at 2am and I'm still pooped by 3pm.
What helps?
- flashbender0
melatonin
- benfal990
get drunk. really drunk. and sleep 20 hours in a row.
- _me_0
eat a full rack of ribs and get drunk.
- ghandolf0
I'm still dealing with a 6 hour time change, and a 10.5 hour flight, a week later. Did you fly East or West?
- East. Beijing.monkeyshine
- Going East is the worst. I can go West and 'catch-up' pretty easily. Going East, takes time to catch back up.ghandolf
- mydo0
sometimes it just get's ya. i used to think i was a bit of a jet lag master, but earlier this year i had jet lag for 7 days. I couldn't shake it. was horrible.
that said, the best solution. drink. get drunk. really drunk. and sleep 20 hours in a row.
- julienc0
I suggest getting drunk and watching a tv show, gets me to sleep in a few minutes each time
- benfal990
call a hooker, do some heroin. you will forget about the jetlag... and the outside world.
- mydo0
my other suggestion is to call a hooker, do some heroin. you will forget about the jetlag... and the outside world.
- bulletfactory0
i've read it can take one day per hour difference to get your body clock adjusted.
- monkeyshine0
well, all the get drunk posts made me laugh. finding a hooker would be very interesting given that I'm a girl in China - heroin is probably really out of the question.
bulletfactory you nearly made me cry. The time difference is 12 hours which, by your measurement, means I'll start to feel better the day before I fly back home. :(
- OOooohhh.... So you're STILL in your destination city and not back home. You've got this to face all over again going home.ghandolf
- Kidswift0
Just had the worst jet lag ever from my return trip to London from NZ. The trick is to get a much sunlight as possible as it will sync your circadian rhythm to the new time frame. Get lots of exercise and eat lighter meals will all help but I found that it took me about a week to get over a 12 hour shift.
- Hombre_Lobo0
sit with benfal99 and get him to tell you all the things he wants to do to scarlett, that will send you to sleep...or it will arouse you in a jealous way.
- johndiggity0
take off your shoes at your hotel room and make fists with your feet while walking around the carpet. worked for ellis.
- if german terrorists attack your hotel remember to put your shoes back on before fighting themflashbender
- lol! i should have read b4 postingidiots
- I'm from Kentucky. I fight best with no shoes. :)monkeyshine
- idiots0
fists with your toes
- mydo0
Day 6 of mother fucking jet lag. just wanted to vent!
Went to bed at midnight on a Saturday night after some wine.
Been up since 4am now.
- martinadolfsson0
Melatonin is key, however don't mix with alcohol it kills the effect of it.
- BuddhaHat0
It took me 4 days to adjust after a flight from Paris to HK, I was napping in the afternoon and waking up at 3am for 2-3 hours, it seriously gave me the shits.
I found that being out of the apartment during the period I would normally nap did it, you're forced to keep on going even if you feel exhausted, then you just charge on through 'til about 11pm, then crash.
Jetlag sucks, good luck.
- Forcing wake, and sleep, works with me too. Being out = good.
I rarely go jet-lagged for more than a day.Peter
- Forcing wake, and sleep, works with me too. Being out = good.
- ghandolf0
Hmmm... from 'the colour clock' thread, there's this...
http://prote.in/chromo
- kalkal0
I saw some BBC show about sleep once. They did an experiment where two guys went from CA to London.
One guy had to eat as normal but the other guy wasn't. Guy 2 had to wait to eat until he got back, and he couldn't eat until normal breakfast time, back in London.
He didn't get jetlag and had a fairly normal day. Not sure if this is easier than getting over jetlag though.