What have I done to myself and how do I correct it
I hate to keep harping on the fact that I spent over three decades working the 1100 pm to 730 am shift. But after a week like this last one, I can’t help but wonder what the hell did I do to my body. I have spent the last few days with swollen joints and pains so bad that getting from one room to the other was almost impossible. My doctor has said I have arthritis and some other inflammatory disease causing the pain. I am offered pain pills but I have not found any that doesn’t cause me to feel like a damn zombie or toss my cookies. What is a girl to do?
I have read lots of studies and they are just trying to find out the effect of people working nights, but I can tell them it is great. I have just read a study that ranked up a number of illness that I have like and irregular heartbeat with no heart disease. How that counts is a mystery to me since the last time I had an episode my heart rate was down to 38 beats per minute. The pain I have leaves me unable to plan too far ahead. For a social person like myself, it’s murder. Today I woke up wanting to do some housework but by noon I realize it just wasn’t going to happen. So here I sit talking about pain that I am sure is part if not all due to too many nights working the night shift.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Lilly I’ve been working NOC shift for 15 years it takes it’s toll on all of us, I think it’s choice though, we don’t have the big wigs always over head, less stress, our shift is normally less hectic than days, however, we pay thy price on our bodies, always tired never sleeping more than 4-6 hours a day, broken sleep. but I wouldn’t replace the hours it has allowed me to spend with my children and now granddaughter. however, I feel I will put in another 7 or 8 years than become one of the normakl people again, maybe even be able to lose weight, and keep it off. Cheryl