sleeping problems

As a night worker for almost 20 years the best solution is to maintain a rock solid sleep schedule 7 days a week. If you try to have 1 schedule for work and 1 schedule for days off it will kill you. It will mean skipping one days worth of sleep at the start or end of week. Then you have a "sleep debt" that you will feel all week. If you make up for that missing sleep by sleeping in you will not be tired at your next bed time, which means staying awake until too late, then working tired.

 

I don't normally do this but the other day ran 650 miles and was tired ...then I went to bed and had a hard time sleeping lol

 

Dude it flat out sucks. I went from doing days for years to a run that started at 7-9 pm and went 12-16 hours all night long. I couldn't do it. I tried it for a couple of months but it was too hard to get any sleep during the day. Once I got home, id be lucky to get 6 hours with the 10 hour reset and all. I'm back on nights but I start at 1 pm and go to 2 or 3 am- I'm like a bartender again haha. Nights like this were easy to get used to its that graveyard shift that I couldn't handle.

 

Every body had their sleep patterns and Its nothin to be ashamed of ..

 

Excedrin pm, liquid Tylenol has always worked for me.If you take over the counter medicine alwys keep them in the orignal bottle not a pull organizer in case you ever get asked.One time A mechanic seen my pill organizer turned me into safety.it took some time but I finally convinced safety it was vitamins.

 

Melatonin works fairly well for me. As for the liquid Nyquil comment I'd be careful with that because it has a stiff shot of alcohol. Nyquil gelcaps have the same ingredients minus the alcohol. I try to avoid regular sleeping pills because they give me next morning headaches.

 

Yes, the "allergy" version is much cheaper that the "sleep aid" version. Sam's Club sells their generic Benadryl (which is what you are referencing) for like $13 for 400 tablets. That's what I carry. For both a sleep aid and allergies.