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Originally posted by I_Still_Know!
Crap!!! A headache each morning?!? Do you drink enough water?? I have heard headaches are a sign of dehydration. Do you drink alot of caffeine? Is that why you can't sleep?
Can I ask more questions?
Anyway- I don't have a sleep patern at the moment (well, for the last year). I have to sleep when I can get sleep and that was alot this weekend. I just finished a 7am to 3pm shift on Friday and will be starting an 11pm to 7am shift tomorrow night. There seems to be no flow to our roster this cycle. I will do the 11-7am shift for a week, have the weekend to recover and then I will be on a different shift. It sucks!!
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i probably dont drink enough water .. i try to but i forget ..
I dont take in any caffeine that i know of .. i dont drink coffee or tea and if we drink pop its caffeine free...
If i get it in any other way it'll be trace amounts ..
I just cant stay in bed for more than 6 hours .. my back starts to bug me ..
re. shiftwork .. i did it for about 10 years ...
some guys seem to adapt to it .. but its really hard on you ... our genetic code tells us to be up in the day - sleep at night .. this is what our eyes are made for.
shiftwork flies in the face of what we are and i think it takes years off of our lives.
i could never sleep worth a damn in the day .. i needed 100% darkness and no noise ... I would use a big floor fan to provide white noise... even in winter
for a long time i did what you did .. the swing shift .. days, then afternoons, then evenings.
It almost killed me