Posted: 10/14/2012 11:20:11 AM EDT
| I flew 6 times zones to the west 2 days ago and I am DESTROYED. How long does jet lag usually last? I mean I feel like ASS. |
| NASA did a study for the FAA many years ago. Their conclusion was jetlag lasted 2.5 days for every time zone crossed for a single trip. Compounded by multiple day stays at your outlaying timezone, or compounded by multiple trips. If you traveled back to your own time zone eastbound it will be worse than if you traveled back westbound. |
|
Quoted:
Go to sleep when you are tired. Wake up when you are rested. What's so hard about that? I wish it were that easy. It is not. Usually my trips end with a Shanghai to Anchorage leg, which is bad enough after being out for 15 days, but then I am on my time so I bust ass to get home to IN as fast as possible. Thats a 14 timezone event that takes about 28 hours minimum. I am so tired when I get home I can hardly stand. I go to bed and will will be wide awake and cant sleep in 2 or 3 hours. It truly sucks and I will not be home long enough to ever catch up. |
| I've flown a lot and have never been jet lagged. I've always planned my sleep habit while flying so that when I arrive at my destination I am on that time zones sleep schedule. By that I mean if I just took a 9 hr flight and its only 3pm where I land, my ass is staying awake until its at least 9pm. (I may sleep on the plane depending where I'm going). Or i force myself to sleep on 'their' time. Its all dependent on that first day you do it. Ive flown around the world on this this type of sleep and it worked for me so far. |
|
Quoted:
NASA did a study for the FAA many years ago. Their conclusion was jetlag lasted 2.5 days for every time zone crossed for a single trip. Compounded by multiple day stays at your outlaying timezone, or compounded by multiple trips. If you traveled back to your own time zone eastbound it will be worse than if you traveled back westbound. It is always worse for me traveling eastbound. I can always stay up later to match the resident time than go to bed early... |
|
Quoted:
Due to working shift work with rotating days jet lag doesnt really even register. I'm a zombie all the time. A typical work work for me. Mon 1200-1630 Tue 0630-2300 Wed 0900-1930 Thur 1400-0330 Fri 1200-2230 sleep when i can, be awake when i have to. 
fuck that |
|
Quoted:
I've flown a lot and have never been jet lagged. I've always planned my sleep habit while flying so that when I arrive at my destination I am on that time zones sleep schedule. By that I mean if I just took a 9 hr flight and its only 3pm where I land, my ass is staying awake until its at least 9pm. (I may sleep on the plane depending where I'm going). Or i force myself to sleep on 'their' time. Its all dependent on that first day you do it. Ive flown around the world on this this type of sleep and it worked for me so far. Pretty much this for me. I can never fall asleep on an airplane though. |
|
If you're traveling east coast - west coast frequently, I suggest never trying to acclimate to your destination's time.
Stay on "home" time. All of the bi-coastal folks I know do it this way, and there are a TON of people in tech industry that spend 2-3 days a week on the west coast but live on the east coast |
|
I was at my sleep doctor yesterday.
Sleeping isn't as easy as some of you think. I would have never thought I would have had a problem either. I'm so fucked up that even my sleep doctor was shaking her head going "yeah, that sucks". ' Even at my sleep study, I slept 30 minutes they woke me up and put the cpap on and I didn't go to sleep for 5 hours and I took an ambien. And I have central sleep apnea and occasionally blockage sleep apnea. 
I slept about 5 hours last night. |
| I was in thailand for over 2wks and japan for a few days couple months ago. When i finally got home it was about 2wks before i was back to sleeping normal. I was hungry at weird times, would wake up at weird hours it sucked i was literally tired all the time. My wife was worse as she was there for about 3months and she wasnt normal for about a month. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
I flew 6 times zones to the west 2 days ago and I am DESTROYED. How long does jet lag usually last? I mean I feel like ASS. If you get good and drunk it will help. I've done this before. Hang over is better then the jet lag. As I've gotten older its gotten better. Much better. Now my flights to East Europe I'm reset the day I get in. Helps to time my sleep on the 9 hour flight over as well. |
|
Quoted: I was at my sleep doctor yesterday. Sleeping isn't as easy as some of you think. I would have never thought I would have had a problem either. I'm so fucked up that even my sleep doctor was shaking her head going "yeah, that sucks". ' Even at my sleep study, I slept 30 minutes they woke me up and put the cpap on and I didn't go to sleep for 5 hours and I took an ambien. And I have central sleep apnea and occasionally blockage sleep apnea. I slept about 5 hours last night. This makes a difference. I have a shitty sleep pattern like kprind, and it's been that way for about 5 years now. It makes traveling over multiple time zones quite a PITA. |
|
depends how busy you stay I hear
seems to work for me. been to Hawaii and Alaska long flight both of them multiple time zones away stayed busy and never had a problem visit family in MA... 4-5 hours of flying and skip ahead only one hour. have stayed a full week and not very busy couldnt shake it the entire week  not a clue why. flown back and had zero problems with it after the fact
|
|
Quoted:
I've flown a lot and have never been jet lagged. I've always planned my sleep habit while flying so that when I arrive at my destination I am on that time zones sleep schedule. By that I mean if I just took a 9 hr flight and its only 3pm where I land, my ass is staying awake until its at least 9pm. (I may sleep on the plane depending where I'm going). Or i force myself to sleep on 'their' time. Its all dependent on that first day you do it. Ive flown around the world on this this type of sleep and it worked for me so far. That works for me. Sucks for a day or two at most. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
It really does help.
Quoted:
Take your shoes off and scrunch your toes on the carpet... Huh? Some people take longer. Days, weeks.... Yeah but you're fucked if someone decides to shoot the glass me: can't really say I've ever had jetlag. I'm use to doing odd shifts so a good sleep and I'm good to go |
|
Quoted:
Traveling west is much worse for me. From the Middle East to the West Coast USA takes me a week to get right. Yea, Japan to East Coast US was the worst. It would take me a week to get right. By the time I got acclimated, I was about ready to head back out. This is when I first got Ambien. But I also got good at preparing. Would stay up the entire day before I left and not go to sleep that night. Drink very heavily and then be super drunk in the cab ride to the air port. By the time you are on your plane, you are starting to sober up and feel like shit. That's when you sleep on the half day flight and wake up at the exact same time and day as it was when you left 16 hours earlier. |