The Chief

There are some Scooby jetsetters out there. how the hell do you get over jet lag?

I've been back from Mexico for a week now an i still cant shake it off, its really p***ing me off now because i need to be up for work in three hours.

I've tried keeping awake at normal times etc. but i cant shake it.

I'll be fooked in the morning i know that.

so any tips please?

Cheers

(i hate Horlicks btw)

FlightMan

Melatonin is supposed to help reset your body clock. Other than that, you just have to do things on UK time, eat go to bed etc.

It can take 1 day per hour of time change, so 8 hours could take you 8 days, so you're not there yet.

pete higham

ffs carl!!!

get some sleeping tablets like the rest of us

The Chief

Not really into taking drugs tbh.

really knackered this morning, didn't get to sleep until gone 5am

Freak

I fly loads- and eastbound is always harder than westbound in my opinion.
Sip water on flights, adjust your body clock in advance, change your watch the second you get on the plane.

Basically you need to force your body clock- TOTALLY knacker yourself out one night-
For example, go to work friday, then stay up this friday night until 6 or 7am on saturday , then get some sleep until the afternoon, get up, relax all afternoon and early evening, then go to bed say 10/11pm- will wake up on a more normal schedule on the sunday.
You have to force it and fight the urge to sleep when your body is telling you to- its not pleasant at first...



ps- flightman- thanks for getting BA178 down swiftly on saturday PM with a minimum of stacking...

pete higham

it aint like you are injecting smack is it eh!!

go and get some cough medicine then (drowsy preferably)

BOB.T

flightman, thanks for getting VS020 down on Thursday too! (btw, how were the prawn cocktail?)

Bob, knackered and not really sure what time or day it is....back to normal then I guess!

The Chief

if i could get something off the shelf thats shall we say a natural remedy then i would mate

pete higham

go and get herbal nytol then!! that is totally natural

anyway, how come this big stance on sleeping tablets as drugs!! you have just come back from a holiday where everynight you will have been on the ale!?

pot & kettle and dont try to argue it as you will fail

FlightMan

If I remember, I'll have a look at the system tomorrow and see how long you were in the stack for.

The Chief

You should have seen what was available off the shelf in the local discount gift stores, Steroids, Viagra, not that i'd need 'owt like that being a rampant stallion like

The Chief

Have a look at that cheers mate.

pete higham

mykp

bit late for my advice as I always stay awake for as long as possible after a long flight.

Last time I came back from japan it took me 16 hours and I left Japan at 9:30 in the morning, got back in Manny at 6pm in the evening and stayed away until 11pm.

Got up the following morning fresh as a daisy.

Bit harder the other way. Leave manchester at 6am, get to Japan at 9am. Staying awake all day until 11pm is difficult. But good nights sleep. No jet lag.

I think the keyword here, for me anyway, is exhaustion

StickyMicky

large glass of milk, 2 nytol tablets and a **** always used to knock me out for 8 hours after a nightshift

FlightMan

No probs Bob, hope Virgin gave you a smooth ride.

Missus said prawn cocktail were lovely. We buy Seabrooks in Asda's now!

The Chief

Thanks mate just bloody spat my coffee all over my keyboard.

speedymonkey

Yep, that should do it alright

Scoobychick

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Another convert Both flights were excellent thanks, Virgin PE was great, big seats, loads of leg room, excellent VPORT thingy and I LOVED the live flight tracker which I watched for 10 hours

Coming back, had dinner, settled down with my pillow and blanket, woke up seven hours later just in time for brekkie and to Bob saying "You've been asleep for HOURS!" Had a great view of the city coming in to land so I took a few hundred pics

As for jetlag, I'm still suffering, my body clock is fubared but last night I managed to get to sleep before midnight and woke up at 8am so better than the 1.30am - 9.30am the previous night I feel knackered again now though.

boxst

I used to 'commute' to Atlanta: 2 weeks in the UK / 2 weeks in Atlanta and then it went to 4-6 weeks/UK and 1-2 weeks in Atlanta.

I was usually fine going to America, being able to stay awake until 9pm-10pm and then waking up from 4am onwards and gradually increasing that until things were fine.

Coming back to the UK is always much harder for me, I have a tendency to not be able to sleep and stay up faffing around (on Scoobynet!) and then getting to sleep at 2-3am and then having to go to work the next day. What I found in the end is that if you force yourself to do some exercise and then go to bed you generally get to sleep and will get back to your natural rhythm.

I have tried sleeping tablets from the doctor, but didn't really get on with them. They just made me grotty.

Steve

JackClark

Travelling east is indeed the worst, I once did a 7 day, four stop round the world trip going east, had to have a week off after that.

Leslie

I used to be changing time constantly when I was on the VC10. It was very hard to get into it in the first place and in the end you only managed to just about cope with it. It is quite true that going east is the worst direction too. I once spent a week in Washington DC and came back to be put on a flight to Hong Kong. We were all the same crew and when we were doing the long descent into Kai Tak everyone on the flight deck was nodding off! That was the hardest one I did. You were permananently tired on that job.

Les

J4CKO

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Dont booze on/before the flight, knocks you out for a bit, then you wake up feeling rubbish.

Night Nurse is your friend, a capful of that will knock a Horse out, you wake up groggy but well slept.

Scoobychick

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Does anyone suffer dizziness with jetlag? I got it really badly after flying west and it stayed on and off for a couple of days, it would just come on really suddenly and make me feel awful. I thought I'd got away with it having flown back east but I've just had my first dizzy spell, I've been back three days so am not sure if it's connected

J4CKO

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Did your husband not collect you for ages, you just going round and round on baggage Carousel....

Scoobychick

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Hmmm, that could be it

PS. Thanks for calling me an old bag, I'll remember that you know.... Oh and BTW, I'm not married

shippy

Personnally I think jetlag is a bit of a myth.

I used to fly west to Mexico and apart from not being able to sleep the first night I was there I had no other problems.

I now fly to Singapore and back every month and don't really feel any effects.
Then again I don't drink alcohol on flights, just water and OJ.
I do try to stay up the night before a flight so I'm knackered when on it and get a good sleep

The Chief

had my first decent night sleep last night. was asleep before 1:30am so getting there.

Scoobychick

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How can it be a myth? It's fact, your body clock gets upset because you fly into a completely different time zone, that's jetlag. OK not everyone suffers from it to the same degree but changing timezones must have some effect.

I am an early riser and get up around 7am in the morning and go to bed at around 10 - 10.30pm (except when I've been at the JD ). When I flew to the States I was going to bed at 9 - 10pm and waking up at 5.30 - 6am every day for three weeks, now I'm back the first few days I didn't wake up until 9.30am and couldn't get to sleep until 1.30am which is unheard of for me. Five days later and I'm still struggling to wake up in the mornings, I managed 7.30am this morning but feel very tired.

Jetlag is definitely very real for me.

The Chief

i was falling asleep around 4-5am evey morning so that would have been around 11-12 midnight Mexico time so undestand why your boody goes to **** over it.