should i drug myself with benadryl or xanax on a 10 hour flight?

Off to the UK? I love xanax on my flights. Generally 1 for a 5 hour

yes, lax to lhr

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Utopian Galt wrote to Knight Shadow <=-

should i drug myself with benadryl or xanax on a 10 hour flight?

Off to the UK? I love xanax on my flights. Generally 1 for a 5 hour

yes, lax to lhr

KS, try it first. People often talk about giving kids benadryl to keep
them docile for long flights, but in a fraction of kids it has the
opposite effect. Ever fly on a 10 hour flight with a 3 year old hopped
up on stims?

People started a trend of "raw dogging" flights - spending 10 hours just staring at the seat back. I suppose it could be like meditation in a
way, although my Chakras won't align for shit in an Economy++ middle
seat.

I'm a firm believer in eating at the terminal, getting on the plane,
using noise-cancelling headphones or earplugs, setting your watch to the
local time and trying to sleep as close to destination time as possible.
Helps me quite a bit with the jetlag.



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On 8/15/2026 9:16 AM, POINDEXTER FORTRAN wrote to UTOPIAN GALT:

KS, try it first. People often talk about giving kids benadryl to keep
them docile for long flights, but in a fraction of kids it has the
opposite effect. Ever fly on a 10 hour flight with a 3 year old hopped
up on stims?

I'm a firm believer in eating at the terminal, getting on the plane,
using noise-cancelling headphones or earplugs, setting your watch to the local time and trying to sleep as close to destination time as possible. Helps me quite a bit with the jetlag.

I think the Euphoria keeps me up for almost 32 hours. 5am PST to 2pm PST the next day.
I think I have to have like a film festival on my ipad where i have like 6 movies I want to see. I
know sometimes they have good stuff on Virgin Atlantic, where I can see some UK TV shows, but its
usually good to have some stuff of your choice to watch.


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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Utopian Galt on Sat Aug 15 2026 09:16 am

I'm a firm believer in eating at the terminal, getting on the plane, using noise-cancelling headphones or earplugs, setting your watch to the local time and trying to sleep as close to destination time as possible. Helps me quite a bit with the jetlag.

I often have trouble sleeping on airplanes. I've tried noise-canceling headphones (and I probably could try earplugs, but I haven't), but usually, things make sleeping difficult. The engine noise is one factor, but I could get used to that, and headphones/earplugs could help with that. Also, other passengers near you might turn their overhead light on.. Also, there's often activity throughout the flight, with people walking up & down the aisles (going to the bathroom etc.), flight crew bringing food & drinks through, and announcements from the flight crew.

I recently flew to Taiwan and back, and the announcements from the flight crew wwere often enough to prevent me from sleeping very long, and they had the speaker volume turned up fairly loud. Also, on the flight back, there was a group of what looked like high school students and they were all talking together through most of the flight. On that flight (a 12 hour flight), I had an aisle seat on the right side, and there were 4 or 5 of them sitting in the middle seats right next to me all talking & working on stuff with their lights on; there were also one or two others of them would would stand in the aisle takling to them, which was right next to me, and all that activity and noise made it difficult to try to sleep. The people standing in the aisle also had to often move out of the way for other people walking through.. I was a little surprised the flight crew never said anything to them about all their activity.

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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I often have trouble sleeping on airplanes. I've tried noise-canceling headphones (and I probably could try earplugs, but I haven't), but usually, things make sleeping difficult. The engine noise is one
factor, but I could get used to that, and headphones/earplugs could
help with that. Also, other passengers near you might turn their
overhead light on..

Virgin used to give passengers a little pack - it had a toothbrush,
single-serving toothpaste, socks, earplugs and an eyemask (marked
"wakey wakey"). The eyemask helped. For me, earplugs are like a
weighted blanket - blocking out all noise feels insulating to me.



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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Utopian Galt on Sat Aug 15 2026 09:16 am

I often have trouble sleeping on airplanes. I've tried noise-canceling headphones (and I probably could try earplugs, but I haven't), but usually, things make sleeping difficult. The engine noise is one factor, but I could get used to that, and headphones/earplugs could help with that. Also, other passengers near you might turn their overhead light on.. Also, there's often activity throughout the flight, with people walking up & down the aisles (going to the bathroom etc.), flight crew bringing food & drinks through, and announcements from the flight crew.

I recently flew to Taiwan and back, and the announcements from the flight crew wwere often enough to prevent me from sleeping very long, and they had the speaker volume turned up fairly loud. Also, on the flight back, there was a group of what looked like high school students and they were all talking together through most of the flight. On that flight (a 12 hour flight), I had an aisle seat on the right side, and there were 4 or 5 of them sitting in the middle seats right next to me all talking & working on stuff with their lights on; there were also one or two others of them would would stand in the aisle takling to them, which was right next to me, and all that activity and noise made it difficult to try to sleep. The people standing in the aisle also had to often move out of the way for other people walking through.. I was a little surprised the flight crew never said anything to them about all their activi

Last flight we took was Sacramento to Richmond for a vacation and visiting family. I've never been so miserable and cramped. Then something happened with my wife and found out she had a stroke on the flight. We ended up in Virginia for 5 months while she was in and out of the hospital. Several stents and rehab later we rented a car and drove home.... A trip to remember.


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Last flight we took was Sacramento to Richmond for a vacation and
visiting family. I've never been so miserable and cramped. Then
something happened with my wife and found out she had a stroke on the flight. We ended up in Virginia for 5 months while she was in and out
of the hospital. Several stents and rehab later we rented a car and
drove home.... A trip to remember.

Oh, that's horrible! Hoping everything is as near to OK as possible
now...



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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: Thumper to Nightfox on Sun Aug 16 2026 09:57 am

Last flight we took was Sacramento to Richmond for a vacation and visiting family. I've never been so miserable and cramped. Then something happened with my wife and found out she had a stroke on the flight. We ended up in Virginia for 5 months while she was in and out of the hospital. Several stents and rehab later we rented a car and drove home.... A trip to remember.

Wow, sorry to hear. That would definitely be a scary situation. I hope she's doing okay. And I know that would be scary for you too, to see her going through that..

Nightfox

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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: Thumper to Nightfox on Sun Aug 16 2026 09:57:12

We ended up in Virginia for 5 months...

How did you handle things like bills, mail, etc.?

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Oh, that's horrible! Hoping everything is as near to OK as possible
now...

She's doing okay now. Did permanent damage but getting through it. Forced us to retire earlier than planned though....

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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: Thumper to Nightfox on Sun Aug 16 2026 09:57 am

Wow, sorry to hear. That would definitely be a scary situation. I hope she's doing okay. And I know that would be scary for you too, to see her going through that..

Nightfox

There was definitely some scary times. Surgery was the worst. TCAR procedure on left Carotid Artery. Very scary. Right Carotid is 90% blocked and non operable... Taking her away for some time at the coast soon....

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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: Thumper to Nightfox on Sun Aug 16 2026 09:57:12

How did you handle things like bills, mail, etc.?

Not easy. All remotely and with our savings. Grandson was at the house and he would check the mail, start vehicles, etc. Managed to pay the house off during the ordeal also...

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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: Thumper to Nightfox on Sun Aug 16 2026 09:57 am

Last flight we took was Sacramento to Richmond for a vacation and visiting family. I've never been so miserable and cramped. Then something happened with my wife and found out she had a stroke on the flight. We ended up in Virginia for 5 months while she was in and out of the hospital.

Wow... I cannot imagine what that was like. I hope she is OK now.

I've been in VA for 71 years now. It used to be a pretty great place to be... not so much anymore.

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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: Thumper to Nightfox on Sun Aug 16 2026 09:57 am

Wow... I cannot imagine what that was like. I hope she is OK now.

I've been in VA for 71 years now. It used to be a pretty great place to be... not so much anymore.

She's okay but lost some of her personality.... 😞 Some issues with motor skills on her right side.... We were in Yorktown and absolutely loved it. One block from an entryway to the battlefields. So much different than here in California.

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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: Thumper to Bf2k+ on Tue Aug 18 2026 09:39 am

She's okay but lost some of her personality.... Some issues with motor skills on her right side.... We were in Yorktown and absolutely loved it. One block from an entryway to the battlefields. So much different than here in California.

Sorry to hear - That would definitely be hard. I hope there would be some semblance of normalcy eventually.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: Thumper to Bf2k+ on Tue Aug 18 2026 09:39 am

We were in Yorktown and absolutely loved it.

Yep.. I am about 45 miles from Yorktown outside of Richmond. One of the nice thing about where I am is I am 1 hour from the mountains and 1 hour from the beach.

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Re: Re: sleeping on a plane
By: Thumper to Bf2k+ on Tue Aug 18 2026 09:39 am

Sorry to hear - That would definitely be hard. I hope there would be some semblance of normalcy eventually.

Nightfox

Mainly just a lot of changes. We'll work together on her issues but seems to get better. She was very outgoing and the life of the party before. Now it's hard getting her comfortable around people and doing things. She can't drive anymore which really bothers her also...


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