Ways to avoid jetlag on 9 hour flight?
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Fly west.
So if you're going to the USA, you'll fly west to get there anyway. On your way home, keep going west and come back the long way.
You're welcome.
So if you're going to the USA, you'll fly west to get there anyway. On your way home, keep going west and come back the long way.
You're welcome.
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Jet Lag didn't seem the issue when me and the wife went Vegas, We just stayed awake as long as we could and went to bed as close to normal bedtime we could, Our main issue was more to do with my Body clock when it came to food and meal times, It was really weird as i never felt hungry at the normal times but would eat at those times but find my appetite was low, my digestive system seemed to dislike this too. It never really got any better until i got home. (didn't ruin the holiday or anything though)
I too was doing funny poos in Vegas. Glad it's not just a me phenomenon.
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Fists with your toes (Die Hard)
Soldato
25 beers and the extra tight seatbelt at the back of the plane.
There's not much you can do, but it depends on which way you're flying. Adjusting your sleep patterns before travelling seem silly - just make sure you get plenty of sleep before going.
There's not much you can do, but it depends on which way you're flying. Adjusting your sleep patterns before travelling seem silly - just make sure you get plenty of sleep before going.
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Watched a programme on this... Don't eat on the plane and when you land eat at next meal time. So if you land at 2pm wait until 5pm and have dinner as usual.
If you land at 7pm starve until breakfast, presenter doctor guy doubted it and said it worked like a dream.
If you land at 7pm starve until breakfast, presenter doctor guy doubted it and said it worked like a dream.
Soldato
I used to sleep for about 2-3hrs on the plane when flying from Chicago > Manchester overnight, land at 8am then go straight into work and go to bed around 10pm. Never got jet lag that way. The one time I flew back on the weekend and went straight to sleep midday screwed me up for a week or so.
So, yeah, just stay awake and try to go to bed at the normal time.
So, yeah, just stay awake and try to go to bed at the normal time.
Soldato
make fists with your toes.
Been done already but I wanted to say it too.
Been done already but I wanted to say it too.
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Sounds like me a few years back
. A few tips:[1] Make it quiet and dark. Pack some decent noise cancelling earphones (if not travelling in a class where you get them provided) and use some good night shade masks (and stick with them for a good 50 minutes).
[2] Either drink a fair bit, or nothing.
[3] Just accept its cramped and try to ignore than (even in J your surrounded by peeps so just try to block it out).
[4] Eat early or not at all.
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I'm scared of flying so the adrenaline keeps me awake on planes. Always jet lagged from US back to Blighty not sure why. Sometimes takes weeks for me to get back into a proper routine.
That's not jet lag, that's just being silly.
Soldato
Drink about 18 pints before you get on the plane. Your body will take so long to recover you won't know the difference between feeling like you lost a day to the worst hangover ever and jetlag.
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I fly long haul regularly (Japan last month 12 hours, west coast of USA this month 10.5 hours) and I don't seem to suffer much from jetlag anymore. Going west is easy as mentioned, it's just a longer day. Going back East I have a few beers in the airport and it allows me to doze a bit on the plane, I don't really ever sleep though. I try and land around lunchtime/afternoon if I'm flying east and then I seem to be able to correct myself by staying up again.
West is easy. Just stay awake until a reasonable time and sleep. You just become a morning person for a few days. No matter how hard I try i can never keep the morning person routine up for more than a few days though.
East is bad. Just enter the time zone you will end up in as soon as you board he plans. If it's night time there then try and sleep, if day time try and stay awake until it's time to sleep. Once there stay awake until the evening, even if you feel dead, and sleep when you're supposed to. Also eat at the right times, even if your body disagrees.
The best solution is just fly south! Most of Africa is only an hour or two different to us! Solves all the issues, is usually cheaper than a trip east or west and it's usually more interesting too!
