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Ok, the title probably didn't make much sense, but I was referring to skin. seriously, 5 new zits in one shift!! Not only that, by the end of the shift I felt a cold sore on my bottom lip forming...and Idont even remember the last time I had a cold sore! I work nights (7p-7a) and ever since I started a few months ago, my skin has had a turn for the worse! And it had cleared up to being semi-decent the past few years...and I'm 25 y/o and still breaking out.
Has anyone had skin problems(or it getting worse) once working nights?
What to do, what to do???
Working night shift is just not healthy, period. Our circadian rhythm doesn't cooperate as we would like it to. I worked night shifts for 14 years and always felt sick, tired, was shaky and often nauseated. I thought I was normal, too! I had forgotten what it felt like to feel good. I have been working day hours for 9 years now and never know how good it felt to really be normal.
Karl Farmer
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I worked nights, then 12 hour nights for 3 years, then switched to 3-11. It was then I realized that I had been chronically ill for the last 3 years.