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Night Shift

MazaritaSenior Contributor23 Sept 2015, 4:13 am AEST

Night Shift

Since I am awake at 4am I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who have trouble sleeping and might find it helpful to have a place to go to chat. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.

To get the ball rolling, I'll just say that I enjoyed being part of the Topic Tuesday discussion tonight. I wish it was possible for these events to be weekly rather than monthly. Either way, thanks SANE and all the people I've met on here over recent months.

Edited June 2016 and February 2017: Night Shift is now open 24 hours a day. To join in, just click through to the last page of the thread at the top right of this post to get to the latest message.

Edited April 2017 and June 2017: For the sake of better communications between members here, I am adding that this thread is meant to be a caring, kind and gentle place of sharing. Humour is welcome, as long as its not unkindly directed towards other members. Hope your time in this chat thread is rewarding.

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TABSenior Contributor25 May 2025, 12:29 am AEST

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on pay TV @plasmo ?not a fan anyways.was watching old ncis

trying sleep again, got 30mins last time ffs

Port Magpies won somehow

Power gone for another year

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plasmoSenior Contributor25 May 2025, 1:40 am AEST

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yeh was on after the port game. only watched the end of the sanfl one. zonked, already fell asleep watchign footy.

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TABSenior Contributor25 May 2025, 1:50 am AEST

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Worse things than that @plasmo 🙃

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plasmoSenior Contributor25 May 2025, 2:41 am AEST

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north melb were doung alrite before collingwood kicked away in last qtr

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TABSenior Contributor25 May 2025, 3:10 am AEST

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yeah , thought that may have been the upset @plasmo

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TABSenior Contributor25 May 2025, 4:09 am AEST

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its a long night when only doing 30mins to an hour sleep at a time @plasmo

got to stop sleeping during day , going to bed 730pm and expecting to be able to sleep, ok worked couple times in last week, probs was sick fm flu shot or something lol

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plasmoSenior Contributor25 May 2025, 4:12 am AEST

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yeh i don't try til late, caught up on crazy amt today

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TABSenior Contributor25 May 2025, 4:23 am AEST

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guess I just about slept around clock earlier in week so still think its do-able lol

even telling myself got a couple lots of 5 hours @plasmo lol should get walking again soon. seeing exercise physio again wednesday, going to get a program to try and fix body lol theyve got some weights but bit sparse, a like 9m pool that looks and sounds warm, ok they said 32 deg, ha and pilates machines. worth a whirl I spose esp in my state of health, plus wangling payments thru DVA, touch wood. so would be free. then thought other day probs can claim travel as well, so that would be $40 a hit as well,well for 60k round trip. whether weekly or fornightly dont know yet.

Wanting to eat here. got stupid meds been doing last couple mths sposed to be taken on empty stomach. not sure mine ever is lol. well its near 4am and I ate last around 9 which I really shouldnt have, but see how close I can get to 6am lol smashing coffees in meantime lol, just need biscuits ha ha

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plasmoSenior Contributor25 May 2025, 4:37 am AEST

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yeh didn;t sleep properly thurs, had to wake up at 9, then went out later. only went for a 20min walk, made pasta, the rest was watching footy, tmw gotta catch up on other stuff.

ate heaps when i went out, managed to get back on diet of sorts tonite.

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TABSenior Contributor25 May 2025, 4:44 am AEST

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Yeah been trying to drink more water and eat more vegetables. @plasmo

Sposed to be seeing dietician sometime. Think have to ring them

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