Jetlag sucks

I just got back from a three week tour of Italy with my family and had a blast. The plane trip was 9 hours to Frankfurt and then another 1.5 to Rome. I didn't sleep at all and fell asleep at about 10pm Italy time. I woke the next day feeling normal.

I wish I felt the same when I arrived home.

It was pretty much the same trip home except that we had to make an extra stop in Toronto with a 3 hour wait. This trip took about 20-some hours and, again, I didn't sleep at all. Now that I'm home, I am completely screwed right up. I'm only sleeping 4 hours a night and my sense of time is lost. It was 1pm here and I thought that it was 9pm and everyone had gone to sleep. :\

Anyone have any jetlag stories?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, the time difference is rather bothersome initially.
I travelled to the Philippines several years ago, and at every stop prior to actually getting there, it was day time still. I tried to somehow circumvent my schedule so that I would end up sleeping properly in Philippines time, but all for naught. We arrived there and it was 10 a.m. and I was awake for about 8 or so hours already. Regardless, we started the first day rather busily, and I was forced to get over it.

How ya doing, buddy?

I recently went to Melbourne, Australia via Auckland, New Zealand...it was at least 14 or 15 hrs to Auckland from LA then another 3 to Melbourne. First I had to get to LA which was 5 hrs of flying in itself, then another 3 of waiting to leave. Combine that with the fact I hardly slept the night before leaving and had got about 1 hr of sleep on the long flight, I was probably awake for 30+ hrs with little sleep. When I arrived at 9:00 am I was jetlagged to hell and it felt incredibly horrible with me wanting to collapse but it being morning. I tried my best to stay awake until nighttime which I managed, but it wasn't fun. I was mostly adjusted within 3-4 days, but mostly zombified while that was occurring. Unfortunately on the way back it was even worse. It took me over a week before I got back to normal. I'd been told it was worse going east and that seemed true for me.

I read this little booklet in the back of the plane seat and it said jetlag was supposed to take 1 day for every time zone crossed to recover -- that seemed a bit of an overestimate from my experience.

How ya doing, buddy?

I spent seventeen hours on a trip to Asia just recently during the holidays, and it was difficult for me to adjust to U.S. time when I arrived back home. It took me about two weeks to fully adapt to the hours again. I'll be going overseas again at the end of June.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

i'm lucky enough to never suffer from jetlag, but my sister suffers from it the entire time we're abroad. everytime we go to hong kong (12-13hour plane trip, and 7-8 hours ahead of our time zone) she ends up sleeping during the day and staying up until morning watching tv because she just can't get used to it. though it means when we get back to england she doesn't have any jetlag.

only once did she not suffer from it i think, when we went to singapore for about 3 days (again flying from england) since we arrived in the morning around 10-ish, we went on a load of trips till 6-ish and which point we were all completely knackered and went to sleep later that evening fine. and since our next two stops were australia and hong kong, she didn't get any jetlag (time difference between singapore/hong kong and australia is only about 1-2 hours)

I was speaking idiomatically.