badblackpug
<font color=blue>If you knew her you would be shoc
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Another night shift ER rn here! I work 3 12 hour shifts. I am lucky because I can usually be asleep by 9 and sleep until...well...I just got up and it is 3:40. I, too, don't do well with sleeping pills, they make me hungover and groggy, and if you work 12 hour shifts your turn around time is short, so that is no good. Tylenol PM is nothing but Tylenol with benadryl, and benadryl is one of the worse hangover producers ever.
I am fortunate in that the joke in my house is that I could sleep on a bed of nails, under a sunlamp, with a fire siren blaring. So the only advice I can offer is this. What is your husbands caffeine consumption like? Nurses drink a lot of coffee. I stop drinking beverages at work by 4 am. That way I am not caffeinated and I don't have to get up to pee. My other thought is maybe you are doing too much. That seems like a lot of noise in the room. I have a fan running, but that is it. I usually read a little before I go to sleep, because that relaxes me. The massages...I wil try to be delicate...may be "stimulating." (I know they would be here!) But, then again, maybe some "stimulation" might help him fall asleep!
Again, some people just don't acclimate to night shift. When Mr. Pug was in residency/fellowship he was a HUGE cranky pants on night shift, it just doesn't suit him. He still doesn't hear the pager now when he is asleep...but of course I do!
Good luck!
I am fortunate in that the joke in my house is that I could sleep on a bed of nails, under a sunlamp, with a fire siren blaring. So the only advice I can offer is this. What is your husbands caffeine consumption like? Nurses drink a lot of coffee. I stop drinking beverages at work by 4 am. That way I am not caffeinated and I don't have to get up to pee. My other thought is maybe you are doing too much. That seems like a lot of noise in the room. I have a fan running, but that is it. I usually read a little before I go to sleep, because that relaxes me. The massages...I wil try to be delicate...may be "stimulating." (I know they would be here!) But, then again, maybe some "stimulation" might help him fall asleep!
Again, some people just don't acclimate to night shift. When Mr. Pug was in residency/fellowship he was a HUGE cranky pants on night shift, it just doesn't suit him. He still doesn't hear the pager now when he is asleep...but of course I do!
Good luck!
