I've made an appointment for tomorrow but now I am wondering if I should cancel.
I work nights, and for maybe the last 6 weeks my sleep seems to be odd. I've been on nights for about 3 months, and for the first month I was all over the place as my body adjusted but I do remember a bit in the middle where all was good.
I can work a full shift with no problems, and I have no problems doing a day of things - shops, chores, hobbies etc, and often find of a night that I am not tired well into the early hours of the morning.
HOWEVER
When I am asleep, I am asleep forever. I cannot get up after 6/7/8hrs, or even 9 or 10 hrs, I am regularly racking up 12/13/14hrs. I can set my alarm for 8hrs, but I either sleep straight through it, or hit snooze til it runs out. I sleep through the doorbell and the phone too.
On the nights I work, I work 12hrs (8-8), and then am asleep from 9ish through til 6ish and although I'd like to sleep more, I get up because I have to otherwise I'd never eat or get laundry done etc and I have to fit in a shower etc
I've noticed I have no appetite either generally, I go through my 12hr shift often without eating (I have dinner before I go, then thats often me until dinner the next night) or with only a light "lunch", but clothes are not getting looser which sat here writing this sounds a bit odd. I am classed as clinically obese, but my weight has not changed over the last 6m or so, so I don't think this insane sleeping is due to being tired from lugging around excess weight?
Do I keep the appointment or does it sound just as silly to everyone else to make an appointment to basically say i'm fat and i sleep a lot?