There has to be a better term than "jetlag". It just seems like such a casual way to describe something that affects your entire physiology. For one thing you can be awake and not awake at the same time. You don't know when to eat, and your intestines have no idea what is going on: "is he sending us food now? There's nothing on the schedule for another 8 hours!"

Mostly I have used denial as my main strategy for dealing with it but I am starting to notice some like slips in alertness which may or may not have been there before. Right now for example I intend to read for a while and expect I will be asleep in about 5 minutes.