to fucking hate working fucking nights?

[DameHermione]

they fuck me up physically. I get zits, wind and the runs.

I cannot sleep during the day so get more and more fucking tired.

DD also hates me working nights. Life with her is difficult at the best of times and anything that makes it worse is best avoided.

I fucking fucking hate nights.

I'm on nights at the moment too. I do two months of nights then two months of days. I don't have any DC and am able to sleep 9-5 during the day which helps. Do you get a break during which you can sleep on shift?

How old is DD? Does she go to nursery/school?

Poor you. Take some smarties. They give you a right old buzz.

Sorry Dame Hermoine, I got too involved with memory lane to sympathise.

Nights suck and I hope you can get off them soon.

I know this wont really help at all but after having read your posts i have to say

Thanks! Thanks to the the nurses, midwives and doctors that are there when we need them, thanks to the taxi drivers, bus drivers, tube drivers, that make sure i can get home late at night, thanks the fire brigades, police and ambulance crews that make the towns and cities safe, thanks to the maintenance crews and cleaners who make everything new and fresh for the morning, thanks to late night factory works who keep things moving .
Thanks! I appreciate the work you do.

(sorry if that was a bit to huggy)

Been doing permanent nights for 16 years now, it was fine when single as I work 4 on 3 off every week so able to plan things well ahead. Thankfully still working ok now I'm married as DH only works part time and hours are flexible so we usually get the best part of 3 days off together every week. I know I'm the exception rather than the rule and my heart goes out to my colleagues that really struggle with it especially those who try and get by on as little sleep as possible and make it up on days off, it just doesn't work. However the one thing that has never and will never change is the disruption to your digestion caused by that first night back!

Night shift belly. Bleurgh.

DameHermoine -
midwife -you fibber! Says on your profile you're a treapeeze artist

Is it trying to get into your lycra when you've got wind/zits/runs that's getting to you ??

I work (the same 3) nights a week and I HATE it. I've survived for 18m but the longer it goes on, the more I hate it. I never have a weekend and I get the same holiday allowance as the other nurse but it doesn't go as far :( I refuse to go back on to days where I am (would be worse I think!!!) and I can't find another job :(

YADNBU I did 10 years of three 12 1/2 hour night shifts with no child care. It nearly killed me. I now do 4 long days and often, by the time I pick ds3 up from after school club, wash the breakfast dishes, cook dinner, do homework and bedtime, I am pretty tired but it is a normal tired, not night shift exhaustion. I know which I prefer!

nothing like working nights to make you realise how much we must fart at night!

Top tip - do it on your rounds and blame the patients ;-)

YANBU - it's an entirely unnatural state and really, really messes with you. 4am-6am always felt like 12 hrs for me.

We have plenty of need for good research nurses if I can tempt you?!

I've recently given up my 5 year 2 nights a week job and don't miss the hours one bit!
My Dr did his nut when I had a bleed mid pregnancy on a night shift. Got a rather long lecture about night shifts and health risks
That said I always found the atmosphere more relaxed on nights and the farting was epic

Sorry to hear that, nights suck. I think I only went for promotion to get off them.

I agree night shifts are horrid. I am v lucky that I don't work any nights or weekends now but when I was training I did a week of nights every 4 weeks, sometimes less. 7 nights working 12+ hours was awful. Working in a busy a+e on new yrs eve/day was particularly depressing.
It's exhausting and I don't know how some of my colleagues with kids managed. You have my sympathies .

I'm off!

Its never as bad as i expectt.

Except that 4am feeling when i think i'm going to die.

And the wind.

And those bloody crash sections at 6am when i'm too fudfled to work out one end of a pair or scisdors from the other.

I did long nights - 7pm - 8am and they were 7 on / 7 off. Killers.

YANBU

Hate hate hate nights.

I understand - done them on and off for 20 years - much sympathy

I also always feel I'm going to die of tiredness between 4-5am

My DH works offshore for 5-7 weeks at a time. Nightshifts 12am-12pm without a day off. How he comes home to us in one piece and smiling, I will never know. I truly admire him!

Good luck Dame!

Remember, you're amazing!!!

Completely agree as I am on my 3rd nightshift and DD started playing up for dad last night lol

and how much wine we drink when we are off nursing realise

Someone once told me that your blood sugars are at their lowest at 4am, which is why we all feel like shit at that time. So, maybe load with carbs at 3:30, might just carry through a bit? But nothing worse than thay awful shivery / bloated / crampy / going to die feeling.

And looking at the toilet in the delivery room, thinking 'if only I could do a poo'....

Op, you have my sympathies, they're hideous, I think i'd have coped in an out and about job but being on a stuffy ward and seeing no daylight or fresh air for 7 nights in a row is just hideous. It's for the young in my opinion- when I was a nipper and desperate for money I worked some bank in to my rota- 10 nights on with 2 off, 7 nights on 2 off 7 on (must be illegal these days). 9-5 for me these days.

Oh me too,i used to do rotation and ended up a literal nervous wreck. My gp signed me off nights in the end. I actually still have that feleling of "thank god im not going to work" sometimes at night.
I got a 9-5 in the end and have never looked back,yes it means more childcare I know but its blissfull.