5 new admissions...on my face!

[Little_Mouse]

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???

[Karl Farmer]

I've been so sick since starting nights. It hasn't shown on my face, but I think it would be easy for it to do so.

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.

[Isabelle49]

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]

In fact, even day shift is unhealthy if you are woken by an alarm. That means your body was not through healing, so another shock to your body and soul~

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

Tokmom, it doesn't dry out my face, but my daughter says it does make hers dry. I am 54, but have been using it for so many years, my skin is probably used to it. It doesn't even dry the skin around my eyes. You might want to try cleocin topical gel, for the occassional break-out.