Does EVERYONE Feel Like This?

One of the things that helps me is taking Ginseng tablets & wearing the support hose *knee high. The combo is better than nothing, and I can really feel a difference in my legs after working 12-14hr nights. Hope you find something that works for you. Also sounds like a viral issue.

I find myself emotionally exhausted more than anything.

I'm hoping some good vitamins might help. I also feel exhausted and have a lot of pain.

Thanks for this thread. I thought it was just me.

One of the things that helps me is taking Ginseng tablets & wearing the support hose *knee high. The combo is better than nothing, and I can really feel a difference in my legs after working 12-14hr nights. Hope you find something that works for you. Also sounds like a viral issue.

Do the Ginseng tablets make you nervous or edgy? I was thinking about that, and many of the nurses drink Red Bull, an energy drink. I get afraid to take some of these things because years ago, when I took diet pills, I would get severe heart palpitations that used to wake me up in the middle of the night.

I find myself emotionally exhausted more than anything.

Yeah...that is a thing with me as well. I feel a heaviness in my soul as well as my body when I get ready to leave for work. When I get there, it gets better, but, it seems as though I live to work instead of work to live.

Yeah, you are not alone. It is a horrible feeling, though, because I don't want to think that I am working to the bone and gaining nothing in quality of life. The bills are going down, and that is a good thing. But, these patients (as much as I care for them) are draining the life out of me, as well as the negative co-workers and un-empathetic administration. I hate sitting at their meetings, literally sick to my stomach when I see them.

On a lighter note, though, I hired a cleaning crew that will be coming to my house on Tuesday to do a thorough cleaning, throwing out and organizing. I think that will make me feel better, seeing a clean, organized home. I'm calling in sick that day and when they leave, I will thoroughly enjoy my home, at least. I don't even care about the money, I just want to stop having that overwhelming feeling each time I come home.

definitely not just you - i always figured once i finished nursing school, i would have a lot more time for friends, and maybe be able to keep my house spotless, but i am just so exhausted by the time it's my day off, that all i want to do is lay around.

this weekend, though, i rediscovered yoga, and it sure felt good afterwards

Pagdeva....maybe some counseling from a co-ordinator or private counseling. Or Maybe Yoga....as cookie freak suggested.

you are not alone, i feel run-down, tired, body aches, etc, ect.

after working 7 nights straight, my first 2 days off of my 7 off i usually sleep and lounge around.

not easy being a nurse at times is it??

I've never done anythig as exhausting as nursing.

Nursing is an exhausting profession, no doubt about it. :smilecoffeeIlovecof

As Cookiefreak mentioned, yoga is a great stress-reliever. I need to get back to it.

We have to take good care of ourselves, nursing is very demanding. I used to work in LTC, for the last seven years I have been an office nurse. Different type of demanding, but incredibly challenging.