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Jet lag help!!

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sparklytoothbrush · 18/08/2025 08:31

Landed lunchtime last Thursday, 9 hr flight from USA. Thursday and Friday, sleep all over the place.

Saturday night , slept normally! So thought jet lag was over. But now last night have had a sleepless night again and feel terrible!

is this normal? I’m 60 and wondering if worse with age.

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notimagain · 19/08/2025 11:35

It's an individual thing TBH, and depends to.some degree on how long you were in the former time .zone . If you were well adapted to US time it might take more to to adapt back to UK than if you were only in the US one or two nights.

As a rough guide it used to be said that it takes about one day to properly and fully adjust for each hour of time zone change. Most people should be able to function reasonably ok in well under that time period but they maybe won't feel great or sleep absolutely normally every night..and IMO certainly getting older makes handling the fatigue harder.

Hope you get over it soon.

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