I would do an infomercial for this drug. Incredible. I first used it on a trip to Croatia and Italy last June. I didn’t quite follow the directions that said I was supposed to use it three nights before I left and then three nights upon arrival. Instead, I just used it the first few nights I was there. On the way home I did the same thing and I had very few jet lag symptoms.

So. This trip to Norway, I took it for a couple of nights prior to departure and then again, when I went to bed the night of my arrival in Bergen. I took it for two more nights after that and absolutely had no jet lag at all. I was awake with no overwhelming drowsiness that usually gets me. Coming home, I did the same thing. I can’t believe that I’ve just morphed right back onto Vancouver time and there was virtually no transititional tiredness. Nada. It is a freakin’ miracle.

Now, I would not suggest taking this stuff regularly. It is a hormone after all and I wouldn’t want my body to rely on an external source of this so that it got lazy and quit producing my own. However, for trips with multiple time zone differences, it is now going to be one of my new absolute travel requirements. That and the lovely headlamp. I never travel without my headlamp and earplugs.

I have discovered that whether I’m traveling first class or no class, reading lights are often problematic. In that, some very fine hotels and/or B&B’s are big on ambient or mood lighting, which leaves an avid reader like myself, stuck with her book under their lovely soft light, straining to read.

With my handy headlamp always at the ready, I no longer have to worry about being stuck like that. And, if I have to find my way through the woods, it covers that eventuality too.