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    so, i worked six days in a row last week. well, six nights.
    i worked my ass off every single day because i really needed the cash.
    at the same time though, i had been having major problems sleeping. i wasn't sleeping til 9, 10 or 11 in the morning even thought i finish at 3 or 4.

    so was working really, really hard on very little sleep but managed to get through it by drinking redbull.

    i worked sunday and it got to about 10.30 on monday morning and i felt so bad i thought i was gonna die. my head hurt the worst it's ever hurt, my skin hurt, my arms and legs hurt even my fingers hurt. i was sweating hot one minute and shivering the next. i was so desperate to get to sleep i took a double dose of valium i was prescribed months ago to deal with irregular panic attacks. slept for four hours and once the valium wore off i was awake again and i felt so bad i was so desperate to get back to sleep. so i took 2 more. slept another 5 hours and then i was awake again.
    i didn't dare take any more so i suffered through another few hours when i finally fell asleep without drugs.

    so all today (tuesday) i've been sleeping on and off all day and i still feel pretty bad. joints aren't hurting so much but my head still hurts and i have a temperature still.

    so, my questions are:
    has anyone had to deal with that before? what did you pu it down to?
    do you think my body was just desperate for sleep?
    i feel like i'm starting to get a cold so perhaps it's a virus in conjunction to lack of sleep?
    i haven't eaten anything since monday morning so maybe that's making me feel worse?

    how can i be right for tomorrow evening's work? i feel like death warmed up!

    i guess i wanted other opinions because i've never felt like this before. bleh.
    i'm definitely slightly better today because yesterday i felt so bad i couldn't open my laptop/watch a film/read a book i was just so desperate to sleep it off.

    hope i can sleep tonight.

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    Default Re: exhaustion?

    Eat and lay off the redbull.

    It's hard to get quality sleep when your body is over fatigued. Try to stretch out in a hot bath and then go right to bed.

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    Default Re: exhaustion?

    I second the hot bath, add some sea salt or epsom salt to it ! Also strong chamomile (ms ?) tea does the trick for me sometimes.

    Also, I've been insanely tired too many times to mention, I'm going through the same thing you are right now minus the valium ( wish I had some) the water heater went out the other day, so no hot baths for me until the new one is installed.

    Hope things get better for u !
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