Sleeping tablets for use on planes.

I've tried them all, and the only thing that works for me is 20mg of Temazepam. (Sold under different names in different countries.) The brand names offered here are Normison and Euhypnos. In North America it is often sold as Restoril.

I am no medico and this advice is worth precisely what you paid for it - zero - so as always, run it past your own doctor.

This tablet leaves me clear headed and alert - unlike some sleeping tablets I've been prescribed that made me feel like I'd just done 8 rounds with Mike Tyson for several hours after I woke up.

One such failure was - Mogadon - common name nitrazepam, but maybe it was just me, however this tablet really made me wake up feeling terrible.

Many of my flights are 30-40 and even 50+ hours in planes and airports without a hotel room, to have a decent sleep. Last month it was 82 hours from Sth America- Europe-Nth Asia-SYD right thru.

Temazepam and liberal amounts of decent Champagne and Nirvana. Works like a charm. For ME. And has done for decades. 20 mg, and I am out like a light in 20 minutes for 6 or 8 hours+. And yes, I know many advise against drinking alcohol at all on long hauls - so to each his own. I am just reporting what works every time for ME.

Others I have travelled with report the same - it helps them sleep fast, sleep WHEN they want, and awake clear headed and alert. In Australia it costs only ~$A20 or so for 100 tablets, but that is like most medications here - heavily government subsided.

Near EVERY flight I make is either 14.5 hours to USA, or 24 hours to Europe (1 stop) so you do need to know what helps you sleep when you live down here. I've often flown from here to Europe via ASIA and THEN on to USA or Africa or South America later on same day.

I smile reading from some folks in the USA or Europe about to take a teeny-weeny little 8 or 10 hour flight and are working themselves into a nervous state about: "HOW WILL I SLEEP????"

I fly about 150,000 miles a year, so get a lot of 'sleeping on planes' practice.

I also find Temazepam useful for after you ARRIVE. Often it takes a day or two to adjust to local times. If you wake up at 2.30am, bright eyed and clear headed and all ready to rock and roll, you are in deep trouble for the next day or so adjusting to the new time zone. Take 20 mg Temazepam right then, and you'll sleep deeply for another 5 hours and be adjusted perfectly to the new time zone. In my experience.