Colourized: the first day after your last night shift

[CB]

Shitmagnet life sucks, but at least it pays good overtime. I've got to get to the grocery store (45 minutes one way) and do a ton of cleaning before the blinds people show up tomorrow. What's everyone else up to?

[farscythe]

@cb eh... im having a birthday beer...or 8....and they're not even special ones
2020 man....
other than that...not much...trying to survive the last week and a bit of work for the year

but hey if you need more willing victims for the night shift...i love them
my commute may be an issue tho

[CB]

@farscythe Happy birthday! Hope you get some solid food with all that beer!

Oh please no more victims on night shift. It's never a fun time.

[frinesi2]

Today I finally learned what the deadline was for a project I've been working on. Today.

[jminer]

@frinesi2 said in Colourized: the first day after your last night shift:

Today I finally learned what the deadline was for a project I've been working on. Today.

This is a problem with my new job too. We'll have one meeting with few details about a project with no tasks handed out during it and 2 weeks later (with zero communication in-between) someone will ask me what the status of X is. It's quite frustrating.

[Chariotoflove]

@farscythe said in Colourized: the first day after your last night shift:

eh... im having a birthday beer...or 8

Shame on you for not posting a birthday announcement. Toss one back for me too.

[Tripper]

Got a hella bad cluster headache since last night...really annoying, just tried eating food...waiting for that to work.

We often kick around moving farther away from things. As my wife wants a homestead (more or less). Sometimes I almost get on board, as neighbors are always around, people going door to door etc...

Then I think about having to drive 30+ minutes to the store and I'm like ehhhh. Obviously we would adapt, but I'm in the Philadelphia suburbs and there is a 24 hour Wegmans (6am to midnight during rona) 1.3 miles from my house. If you are not familiar with Wegman's, there is very little that you cannot get there, haha.

I bet our shopping trips are wildly different. There are days when I have been there 3 times.

[farscythe]

@chariotoflove i havent yet...lol
i was waiting till i finished rock in rio to make a post

[farscythe]

@cb solid food?
uuuuhhh.....i think i had a sandwich 3 days ago
and a slice of salami just now
sooo..yeah we good
and thanks

[farscythe]

@cb also...i kinda forgot your job...victim may have been a poor choice of words there
i just meant i love night shifts

[ClassicDatsunDebate]

@cb Just got back from a drive/walk out in gloomy nature. Going to make home made crabcakes for dineer....probably risotto and asparagus.
Save travels to civilization!

[CB]

@farscythe All good bud.

@ClassicDatsunDebate "civilization" also does not have a traffic light. Rural Saskatchewan, man.

[sn4cktimes]

@tripper said in Colourized: the first day after your last night shift:

Got a hella bad cluster headache since last night...really annoying, just tried eating food...waiting for that to work.

I got a LOT of cluster headaches in my mid 20's to 30's. I usually just get "normal" headaches now. The worst pain I've ever had is a CH. It benchmarked my new 10 out of 10 pain level. Examples: I've cut off the end of my thumb, degloved a finger, shattered a foot, broke my hands multiple times, tore a wrist tendon, broke a vertebrae, broke my occipital bone, got a few concussions (and the migraines to go with them), broke most of my ribs at least once, and EASILY had +200 stitches. Most of that being when in my teens early 20's. Shattering my foot was a 5-6 at best in comparison.

The first CH I got... I actually thought I was dying. My wife (still just GF at the time) was about ready to call an ambulance for me. I had no idea what was happening. I was asleep... and then pain. Blinding pain. Shot out of bed like I got shot and hit the floor pain. The worst pain I'd EVER felt. Like an icepick trying to erupt from my skull, through my eye. I would only wish that type of torture onto humans guilty of the worst atrocities imaginable.

My normal CH's would be 7-8's, I'd hit batches of 9's sometimes, and once in a while one would get close to that first 10... But never quite as bad. They'd usually run a week, week and a half, and then go away for a while. Sometimes I'd get warning signs, but usually a set would kick off while I was sleeping. I'd just get up, go into the tub, turn on some hot water and "ride the wave". Batches of 4-5's... fuck it, I'd go to work, had to. The bright lights and loud noises of being a welder did not help. Starting to hit 5.5 and I really had to self monitor and be ready to make the call. I could drive attentively at a 6. Start hitting 7 and that'd be a no-dice.

I'm starting to go years between major clusters now, and know the kinds of things that can take some of my normal headaches and raise the risk to CH and avoid them like ebola. It helps, but doesn't guarantee anything. There are treatments emerging that could potentially help nowadays, not some much when I was in the peak of them.

TLDR version: I feel for you (full on sympathy), I have been there, and it sucks, it may get "better" as you get older.

[sn4cktimes]

@farscythe said in Colourized: the first day after your last night shift:

@cb also...i kinda forgot your job...victim may have been a poor choice of words there
i just meant i love night shifts

I worked nights for 10 years. I liked it. I'm a night owl and it makes getting out of so many obligations for the "normies" out there (of which I am now). It's not like I need sleep anyway. When I worked nights I could get 4h a night for MONTHS and be fine. Living a jaywalker schedule I need like like 7-8 or I feel dead inside. It seems like a huge waste of time to me even after years of sunlight living.

@farscythe said in Colourized: the first day after your last night shift:

@cb also...i kinda forgot your job...victim may have been a poor choice of words there
i just meant i love night shifts

[ST80MND]

@farscythe Hey! Happy naming day my friend! 2021 will be a better year.

[Tripper]

@sn4cktimes It honestly has gotten better. I'll be 36 in a few days and my 20's were a lot worse. That one yesterday was probably a 5-6, anymore and I'd have to be in the shower or lay down.

So a little TMI here but relevant...the description of your first one is the same as my worst one, except it happened when my wife and I were having sex. Also ready to call 911 I would have been in tears but it hurt too bad to cry, haha.

Asked my doc about it and apparently it's a thing, it's happened a few other times but never quite as bad as the first time.

[sn4cktimes]

I've talked to a few people with Cluster Headaches over the years and it's pretty surprising how many of us just end up in the shower. Some because it helps clear it, some because it's just a safe alone space, some because the constant sound or water feel is a distraction/meditative type thing, or all the above. For me it was mostly just the meditative type thing. They pretty much always lasted 1.5-2 hours... I'm sure I've wasted a lot of water over the years.

During sex would've been pretty inopportune timing for sure... Glad yours are "on the way out". Most CH people age-out of them. Primarily men, between 20-30's, and then they just kinda taper off. So fingers crossed for you.

The first one almost always seems to be the worst for most people. So that's a "perk" I guess.

[Snuze]

@Tripper @sn4cktimes CHs are rough. I get migraines from time to time, but they usually only last a few hours. My worst was probably like one of your 6-7s. So I have had a glimpse of what you all go through, and its not fun.

Also, since were going there, Im a hypersomniac (its similar to narcolepsy) and I once had it happen in the middle of a hookup.

[sn4cktimes]

@snuze said in Colourized: the first day after your last night shift:

hypersomniac

My Wife just got diagnosed with hypersomnia. Hers isn’t that close to narcolepsy though. She doesn’t just zonk out. Just sometimes really struggles to function without boosting her sleep. At least so far. But it hasn’t really changed on her for 17 years so far.

[Snuze]

@sn4cktimes I got diagnosed back in 2007 at age 23. My case was more aggressive, narcolepsy is actually characterized by a specific set of neurological symptoms which I didn't have, but I could still fall asleep/wake up at the drop of a pin, and was always exhausted.

I got put on medication to regulate my sleep schedule once I was diagnosed. It works wonders and 13 years later Im more or less a normal human (at least regarding sleep).

Interestingly, after my appendectomy this year I stopped taking the meds for a while so I could get extra rest. I decided to ease back into it and have found I now function really well on half the dosage. Weird, huh?

[sn4cktimes]

I guess it’s good that they’re working that well. I wonder if the time off from them kind of made your system deal without long enough to sensitize you to them again. OR if it’s just that you were on them so long that you kind of reprogrammed your body?