to really really hate, loathe and despise working nights?

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I can't sleep properly so I feel like shite.

I do nothing except sit waiting to go to work because I feel too shite to do anything interesting.

I don't get any shopping, bill paying, important stff done.

I miss things at school, appointments and nice stuff.

I miss daylight.

My body clock is shagged, my bowels seize up, i get wind, constipation and the runs.

I either eat too many meals or nothing at all.

I get all dehydrated.

My work collegues are generally a weird bunch at night.

I could mention pateints at night but that might tip me over the edge.

I have to palm my children off on various relatives to sleep over.

I am grumpy.

I know exactly what you mean. Thank God I haven't had to do it for many years. It used to make me really ill.

Oh so with you you are Totally NBU.

FWIW I couldn't hack it long term (fri/sat night every week) so have returned to be a sahm. Currently planning my next career.

One where nights are not standard!

awwwww bless, i was the opposite i loved working nights and i worked in a nightclub till i was 8 and half months pregnant, however when i went back after the dd was born my body just seemed to hate it so i had to give it up :(

are you on shifts?? not sure how they work but can't you just change??

sounds grim
what do you do?

Don't blame you. My husband's on nights at the moment and he's the same as you. He also said he's getting older (38!) and he doesn't bounce back from it anymore.

forgot that bit.

takes me a week to recover.

When I worked in USA the nights were 11pm till 7 am. So much easier than the 12 hour shifts we had to do here in the UK.

My mate's a nurse and does nigh shifts and she gets consipated and miserable too...she's going to re-train as a nursing teacher.

yanbu
I did nights for 2 yrs , nursing
felt like shit all the time
switched to days and the land of the living
feel much better now although the moneys not as good

YANBU I did 2 x 11 hour nights and couldn't do anymore so switched to 13 hour days instead which were far easier!!

YANBU...I don't know how you do it.I would walk around like a zombie. I can't function if I have a late night, if I wake up tired I convince myself I'm neglecting myself and am going to be ill. I am a wuss and I admire you lots!

my sleeping was so fucked up

I worked with other nurses who had been doing nights for 100 yrs
they either survived on zilch sleep or were the type that could sleep after a night until 3pm then happily sleep from 11pm that night till morning..how they do it I don't know

YADNBU I hated nights with a passion, ours were 5pm to 9am we were basically 'on call' but mostly worked. They used to make me cry . The final straw came at 4 am, pregnant with DS3, I x-rayed a drunk young man who was crying saying ' I shouldn't be here I should be in bed' and then was told to carry a rape alarm and phone switchboard when I'd got safely to the other building where the bedroom was as there were some dodgy people about. NIGHTS ARE EVIL.

AND I'd be buggered for days after.
And I got a bad tummy.
And childcare was a nightmare.

So no, not unreasonable at all

Did nights for years. Am convinced I am diabetic because of night work.

Could you maybe do something 8-5ish (thinking childcare might be easier).

YANBU. And anyone who says patients sleep at night!!!! Most of the medical emergencies I dealt with where at night, minimal staffing/senior cover. A nightmare.

Oh YANBU.

My bestest friend has just gone back to working nights - its draining her dreadfully even her skin looks tired ....i read somewhere that to replace an hours sleep at night you need 2 hours daylight sleep.

I've done nights and IMO it really isn't good for your health.

I hated nights too, don't miss them at all.

YADNBU!!!!!!!

I did nights on and off for 5 years before getting a 9-5 nursing job, then working in nurse education, am now a therapist.

they bloody killed me and were one of the main reasons I switched from being a ward sister to a practice development nurse. Constipation, kidney infections and I'm sure they are the root cause of the severe and intractable problems I have with insomnia and sleep disorder to this day.

I'll tell you how your average lazy arse (not me BTW) permanent nights mental health nurse manages it. By spending 1am til 6am asleep and leaving the nursing assistants to check the patients etc! Permanent RMN night staff are truly a strange and piss taking breed.

YANBU, I did nights as a nurse for 3 years until earlier this year. When I first went back after having DD I used to split the nights across the week and then just stay awake stright through the next day too with no sleep. I was off my trolley. I don't know how I survived. I feel like I have my life back, although I am STILL trying to get rid of the bags under my eyes! You have my sympathy.

YANBU ,although nights prior to kids not so bad . the worst i did was at the end of my training and had to make up 2 weeks , single parent so i did one on /one off nights for two weeks ,not so bad except it was the hols ,so what i did was drop ds off at friends house ,go to work ,come back and look after ds and her 2 dd's all day till she got back from work and then i could go to sleep . next day look after ds and friends dd's all day and then back to nights . it nearly killed me

minxofamncunia- at them sleeping 1-6!!
we got 45min break

It is a proven fact that working nights has a detrimental effect on your health.

Just c & p'ing

yanbu. No chance of changing job somewhere along the line so you don't need to do them forever?

When I was in charge ggirl we all got our hours break except for me often enough because i was the only qualified a lot of the time.

I was v unpopular with the night "crew" esp one rancid haggard old cow who started all sorts of nasty vicious rumours about me as i'd disrupted her way of doing things, she was an a grade NA BTW but had assumed a position of great power as she'd been sitting in the same chair being the matriach of the night shift for about 100 years. Yes night staff on psychiatric wards are an odd bunch, and because the patients mainly sleep sometimes it's a long long night.

mean to say just the hours break, no more!