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I haven't really felt tired, unless I'm drugged for several years now and I have been like this for over 6 years now since the very beginning of January 2011. I took high dosages of Seroquel and other meds up until 2015 or I was wide awake otherwise. I felt like I haven't healed since I have bee off of the meds. I got off due mostly to no insurance and I was mostly either getting patience assistance or samples of Seroquel and I also got off because of working. I work overnight now several nights, 4 nights a week to be exact, on Tuesday, Wednesday, which was just moved from Thursday night, Friday and Sunday nights overnight. I have off Monday, Thursday, which was just moved from Wednesday night off, and Saturday night off, but a lot nights that I have off, like last night I barely sleep. I am very tempted to get back on the meds at this point, being as I am barely sleeping. I get either just maybe one very short period of rem sleep or nothing most of the time and I very worried about what will happen. I'm also very frustrated and confused about being so wide awake. I don't even have a psych doctor currently. The one I recently saw prescribed me Trazodone, which I had taken before and I knew wouldn't do anything for my wired butt. I went through this for a long period earlier this year and now I'm back into it again probably due to a lot of stress. I started a new job working with special needs adults and one location was extremely hands on to say the least and I got really stressed. I started not even sleeping on my nights off. I can't sleep during the day ever and I'm not supposed to be sleeping on the job. I still try to rest on the job but I'm worried I'll get caught to say the least. I just feel so down especially after night like last night after I barely slept yet again and now I work 2 nights in a row. I don't know what to do and I am really worried about the impact of this. I have welt wired, but had periods where I got mostly broken sleep in between, but now I get mostly no sleep even on my off nights.
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Hey Kara,

I think you need to switch your shifts to 1st or 2nd shift. Your body needs to regulate it's circadian rhythm. Is it possible for you to change this work schedule?

 

Also, the wired feeling is normal. I rarely even feel tired at night and I work 8-10 hours a day and exercise 1-2 hours after that. It's the meds that have made me this way and the same applies for you. I don't think you need more meds.

 

If you have to work 3rd shift, I would try to do this every single day then. I think your body is confused what time of day it is. I remember doing an overnight waitressing once, before benzo withdrawal. It was horrible...my body felt like craip the following day. These things really do effect us. Hang in there!.  :smitten:

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Hi Kara,

 

I agree, working overnights can really take a toll on your body's ability to regulate it sleep-wake cycle. And we who have gone through w/d sometimes have to take extra good care of ourselves. Is it possible for you to work at a less stressful location? If you're coming home from work so stressed it's no wonder you can't settle down. I work with adults with disabilities as well and the one night I worked overtime at an intense location I was so stressed I was up almost all night once I got home and I still had to be at work early the next morning. Sometimes we have to be realistic with what we can take on.

 

Sending good thoughts your way! :smitten:

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I am sure that working overnights don't help the situation, but working overnights isn't the main cause of this either, I was like this, as I wrote, way before I ever worked overnights. I use to work 4, 10 hour overnights in a row and a lot of time work double shifts and then have 3 nights in a row off. It seemed to work better than this because  a lot of times although I was wired I managed to get broken and probably light "sleep" off and on. Now I don't "sleep" much at all. I just get like a very short period of  rem sleep, if any "sleep", but the job is more stressful. The job I had before overnight was one on one with a high functioning, non hands on client. The hardest issue with him was that he was obsessed with weed.- lol. Now I came from a very hands on situation on the new job that was like CNA and very hands on work with a falls risk that fell a lot. I was moved and one location I was moved to has another elderly client who is more hands on, which I don't like. She has no hip and likes to act like she will fall, etc. I also have to get her up severe times a night and help her use a commode, which is really annoying. Anyway she is also stressful for me.  Last night was not my night to work overnight but I went in at 5 AM to see the morning routine better. I barely "slept' and I am not tired, but wired despite not sleeping for a long time. I now work the next 2 nights in a row. I worry so much about what this almost total lack of sleep will do to me. I am depressed but wired at the same time and I am really anxious. I am out all on my own and wasn't out on my own to a little over a year and half ago for the very first time. I lived at home up until that point. My mom passed away, on March 6, 2014 to be exact, and then it was just my dad. He moved on with his life, got a girlfriend and moved in with her. It is stressful being out all on my own, paying for everything, not making that much, but still not being able to get any government assistance, being uninsured and worrying that I could easily lose everything, plus have no place to go if something goes wrong. I'm just so wide awake, wired, anxious, and depressed.
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Hang in there Kara. I completely understand why you are stressed. I'm sorry about your mother.

 

Just keep in mind that what worked before benzos might not work right now for you since you are in withdrawal. Your body might need to have a more regular pattern. Is it possible for you to change shifts? Also try meditation. It really helps me unwind. I also run 5-6 days a week. It literally forces the wired feeling out of me. Maybe it's something you could try.  ;D

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I never took any Benzos.  I took other meds like high dosages of Seroquel. I just am so anxious and wired, plus I am also depressed. I feel very anxious right now. I have to go to work in less than a couple of hours, but it is tomorrow night that I am really worried about. The one client is elderly and I am supposed to get her up several times through the night to get her on a commode. She has no hip on one side so she is a fall risk, but she really plays it with me, so to speak. She gets so impatient and I just get anxious. I really don't want to go because of her. She's so demanding and it's hands on and like CNA work because of her. I was already moved there to that location from another where there was actually a falls risk and she fell several times my last shift there. They were elderly and very hands on. I work overnight, including tonight, several times a week, which I'm sure doesn't help matters but it's by far not the only reason I am so wide awake. I, as I already explained. worked overnight 4 nights straight a week at another easier job and I usually got light and broken sleep on the nights I was off, but now I haven't slept a lot of nights even when I am off and I don't really during the day either. I didn't "sleep" well before I started working nights either. I usually had light and broken sleep, plus I was wired then also. I'm not sure if switching shifts would make it much better.
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  • 3 weeks later...
I had the never-tired feeling for the first 4 months, where I didn't go to bed because I was tired but just to lay there and pray for my brain to shut off. Now I'm starting to get an occasional short wave of sleepiness in the late afternoon (a crash after a meal) and it feels like a miracle.
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