How do I get rid of jet-lag?
I returened home two days ago from Japan and I have had the worst days ever coming back. I ate once yesterday, my stomach feels all queasy and gross, and I can't stay asleep. Coming home I took a 12 hour bus from Aomori to Narita Airport near Tokyo, then 12 hour flight from Tokyo to Dallas, then 3.5 hour flight from Dallas to Hartford, then a one hour drive home. First night home I woke up at 5am, and 2nd night I woke up at 6am. I've been going to bed at midnight, but that's only because I'm working at my church this week. Yesterday, at 6pm I wanted to crash and sleep, but that's when I was at church and I couldn't. Anything I can do to get rid of this? It massively sucks and because I work in the kitchen in the heat with this summer weather and not being able to eat, it's not a good combination. Help?
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Hey Im getting ready to leave Spain, for good, finally, not that i don't like it, but been here long enough,,,,work,,,,but, you have to eat, 3 times a day, for just awhile, then go back to how you normally eat, and then you just have to get the propper rest, one way or the other, i mean hey, u have to just get the rest, and you need to eat more, believe me, after 5 ano's over here, and not even from here, plus, goin home, bout every yr?!! i know exactly what you are going thru, and well it's not evennnnnn fun,,,,,sooooo u just have to get it together, somehow someway, cuz if you don't ? It will take a lot lotttttttt longer, to get yourself back on track,,,, you are backwards, or your body is that is, your brain, is use to Japan, n well til it gets back on track? I REALLY FEEL FOR YOU, I am going to go thru the same thing, here in bout a month, do not look forward to it! Maybe, you could go to a Dr. and get something, to sleep, when you are not working, and but the eating part, and sleep, is SOOOOO IMPROTANT, GOOD LUCK, eser59
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I travel insane amounts, and live in both the USA and Australia. I am almost never jet lagged since I read about this simple trick. Sunlight is the key. Set out in the sun long enough to give your body a sense of the sun moving across the sky (about an hour). This resets your internal clock. It's really that easy. Trust me you will be feeling better soon.
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Taking melatonin to reduce jet lag is probably the safest and best-tested use of the hormone to date. Some of the advice below will obviously not help you THIS TIME, but I will include it anyway. Pick up the advice wherever you are in your travel schedule. When traveling east, on the day of your flight, take one dose of melatonin, as directed on the bottle, between 6 and 7 p.m. your time; you may have to take the melatonin on the plane. On the day you arrive and for the next four days, take one dose of melatonin at bedtime (between 9 and 10 p.m.) local time of where you now are. When traveling west, melatonin will not help much if you travel less than five time zones to the west. For distances, on the day you arrive, take one dose of melatonin at local time bedtime and continue to do so for the next four days. If you wake up before 4 a.m., go ahead and take a little more melatonin (one or one-half dose) so you can get a complete night's sleep. Try to get "fast-acting" melatonin (it will say this on the label), or if you know from experience that the effects will not wear off before you need to be up. And, if you're traveling further west in less than four days' time, take melatonin at bedtime the night before leaving. Then repeat the whole schedule again at your new location.
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Been there, done that ! You're getting there. It's daytime there, and nighttime here and you came back with the Sun shining all the way, and couldn't move around much, and slept and awoke to movies playing, and the sound and compression were constant. Your body went through alot, and you need to just take it easy and let your body (not your plans) tell you what to do next. I found that walking around my neighborhood with a bottle of gatorade helped. It was a weird feeling, but I did it anyway.
