Re: Trying to sleep in warm weather
Originally Posted by
Floydy
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Sunday nights are the worst for me, Baz as it's the first night back after the weekend. Just as you're getting your sleep pattern back it starts all over again. So many of my colleagues are developing health problems too. Someday....
Yes, I did write a similar thread last year (but maybe that wasn't me?!) and someone mentioned a humidifier. This little thing seems a better option as it's not as expensive.
It was the same for me really but one good thing is that it's better to be on a permanent shift, even nights than the three shift system of 6-2, 2-10, 10-6 rotating, that is a real nasty one! The best one I once worked was three 12-hour night shifts rotating over the weeks so every so often it was a whole week off in addition to the days in between shifts. Some that I worked with went on holiday for that week!
On the health front though I know you keep yourself fit, however, one thing to bear in mind working what I call 'silly' shifts is that it's reckoned our bodies have mechanisms to control blood pressure via daylight, working nights means not much daylight. I eventually had high blood pressure but like a lot of us men I didn't get checked as I was seldom unwell so never went to the GPs and never knew for possibly ten years. That didn't do my health much good. Getting myself checked, finding out and possibly having to take a tablet every day might have saved me from a heart attack some 12 years' ago now. It wasn't just the shifts though as I was also very stressed by my personal situation but those hours certainly didn't help.
I don't recall it being yourself who posted that thread about the humidifier unit I am thinking of. Perhaps that same person who gave a view on it might see this and again give an opinion on it?