Jetlag... For real this time

"I hear going home is worse than coming here" was what one my colleagues said while we were in China. I thought that was probably true but not in my case because I was supposed to be young and invincible.  
I don't if any of you have ever experienced true jetlag but really I don't recommend it.
I love traveling and I always found it kind of interesting when people would talk about jetlag. I always thought it just meant you were really tired when you got home so you'd just try and stay awake until that night and then have a great night's rest, falling asleep almost instantly. That was until I came home from China. Holy cow! That one hit me pretty much right in the face. Not until then and only then did I realize what the jetlag was all about. I'll probably never complain again when I only have to fly a few hours across the country in the middle of the night.
So on the flight home I got a few hours of sleep which was good because we pretty much flew through the night. We then waited in the airport for a few hours for our connecting flight home on which I slept almost the entire time. I arrived home at 6pm after only leaving Beijing a couple hours before at 4pm. Same day. When I got home it was actually my birthday, making it the longest birthday of my life, some 36 hours. But that's another story. Anyway because of that I stayed up for the party and finally made it to bed a little past midnight. I woke up the next morning around 9 thinking all was well. That was until about 6:30 that night. I could barely keep my eyes open. I fell asleep until 10 and then woke up for a few hours. Same thing happened the next night except I woke up at 2am and could not go back to sleep. I thought I was going crazy. I had things to do but my body wasn't having any of it. My stomach and head also weren't very happy through all this. Finally I knew what to do. The third night home the same thing happened. I fel asleep around 6:30pm but when I woke up at 11pm I took tylenol PM. Best decision I ever made. I woke up at 6:30 the next morning feeling great and haven't looked back since. I actually am on a better sleep schedule than I ever was before, now following the "early to bed, early to rise" adage. After 4 days my body finally figured out what time it was (with a little help).