I'm leaving tommorow for Vienna, it's a nine hour flight, and I was just wondering if anyone had any methods for preventing Jet-Lag?

I heard wearing sunglasses the whole flight is good. never tried it though

my ears kill me so much when i fly. i like cant take the air pressure. i get massive headaches and cant function. its awful. help ?

Well if you have booked a red eye flight you are a bit doomed. The best way I find is to drink SHIT loads of water because you get amazingly dehydrated on flights. The air is drier then in the desert.

There is no way to prevent it other than sleeping for a week when you get there and thats not possible. Im still suffering a week later after flying to the US.

I never do well at recovering from jet lag. (I can't even get over the daylight savings time one-hour change).

that's how my daughter gets.

i suck at the lag. it takes forever to get myself together.
daylight savings time is tough for me too.

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How to reduce jet lag?

http://performance.netlib.org/misc/jet-lag-diet

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I do that... keeps the stupid light out of your eyes when you try to sleep.
Last time I flew it was for about 28 hours all up. I had jetlag because of the change in timezones but felt fine. I just force myself to stay up until it is their nighttime then sleep. Usually takes a few days to get normal again but you have to make yourself stay awake until it is nighttime in your new destination.

Drinking water is a must too. Oh bring lip gloss on the plane (if they still let you)

agreed, that always works for me

eat at local meal time (not tummy grumbly time)
i find that when i travel, even if i do fall asleep at the right time, i often wake up from hunger because i haven't been hungry for dinner. this will get you in the right rhythm.

but i mostly rely on tylenol PM

Sleeping pills?

All I know is set your watch to the time of the place you're going to and eat/sleep at times appropriate to that. Eat things with as little salt content as you can...

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