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Tired all the time and sleepy during the day even after an eight hour nights rest. Does anyone else

Posted By: Susan on 2006-07-15
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have this problem? Is it a vitamin deficiency in age 40 and over?


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sleepy time
I have that problem.  I only have it with MQ however.  I work another MT job and it doesn't seem to bother me.  For me it is extreme frustration, boredom, and not caring for my job and not feeling fulfilled.  I think for me it is psychosomatic.  I sit down here to work and start yawning but I could spend 4 hours in my garden and be wide awake.  Are you happy with your job? 
To Tired: Get some rest! I knew there had to
be at least one person who would blow this out of proportion! I do not think I am *better than doctor* as you say. Just wanted to see what others did in this situation. I already know to correct their *grammer" as you incorrectly spell this word. At least the rest of the comments weren't so unnecessarily condescending.
fox network on Tuesday nights, at 9 p.m. central time, nm
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Working 2 full-time jobs (for a year now), and boy am I tired!!
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Is this w/the built-in hand rest? Touch was nice, but the rest made my palms achey. Didn't
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sleepy
I had this happen to me and finally got checked out. I also had muscle aches, bone pain in the winter, ate to get energy-- turned out to be a vitamin D deficiency. Sometimes we MTs don't get out enough. Lol. Go to the doc (or NP in my case), tell them your symptoms. I had to go on a hefty dose for 2 weeks to start feeling better but WOW. My appetite is totally back to normal too and I am not tired all the time. Just something to try.
Me too. Less than 8 hour day, but full time.
xx
BTW, I have a 24 hour turn around time sm
but often will get an e-mail asking for charts I typed and sent (always check my sent mail) up to 4 days earlier. Guess maybe they really do need that advisor.
Sorry even if you are slow, 200 to 400 times per hour - no time -- NM
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made me HUNGRY and SLEEPY
i gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks - could not stop eating, could not stop sleeping. i know 2 other people on it who have gone off of it for those reasons. at first, at the lowest dose, while i was on a tapering dose of lexapro along with the cymbalta, i felt great. when it was just the cymbalta at a higher dose, it bit me. lexapro has worked wonders for me. but everyone has their own response to meds - this is just my experience. only you and your doctor can decide. hope this helps.
Can someone help with Windows 98 time/clock? I'm losing about an hour a day (sm)

I have Windows 98 and the same computer since 1999.  I have never a problem until this week.  The clock setting is losing about an hour a day.  I reset it every morning, but around afternoon, it's about a half hour off, but night, its an hour off, etc.  I haven't noticed any other problems with any other programs. 


Does anybody have any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it, other than just keep resetting it?


Thanks you guys!


I prefer short ones...get sleepy if they are too long
and I have to listen to the dictator drone on and on.
Everyday thing for me. I work till sleepy, then set my SM

phone not my clock to ring. I get about 5 hours every night, have for years.


how many lines per day and per hour do most companies expect/want you to type for full time? thanks
lll
I get tired of daily grind. I get tired of having

horrible dictation/dictators and not able to produce lines, which directly affects my paycheck.  I don't mind doing the difficult stuff, and I pretty good at it, but it is stressful and I find it very hard to budget when you never know what your paycheck is going to be.   I hate being tied to having earphones on all day.   I have children at home (I homeschool and don't have toddlers running around) and my DH works third shift so he is home during the day.  I try to work around all this, but can't always.  If I had a "desk" job I could be part of conversations at least, but having to have the earphones on you can't do that.   I get tired of being sedentary, my feet swell, my shoulders are tired, my elbows hurt, etc.  


I stick with it because of my children, and also because I like the flexibility.  I don't have to be up at 5:30 to get the kids up and ready for school, I don't have to fight traffic to get to work at 8:00.  It is a trade-off.   Sounds like you just need a break.  


 


I'm on Nights
I just can't "turn into" a morning person.  My schedule is 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., but it's very flexible.  I don't have kids, but I live with my mom at the moment and she hates my schedule since she works days.  I love it.  I work days occasionally, but I get SO tired in the middle of the day, and when I work nights, I can stay up for a lot longer.  I love working at night; it's quiet, I can't distract myself because I have to BE quiet, I don't spend all day awake by myself while Mom's at work, etc...I don't have much of a night life, though.  That's a good thing, however, since I'm single and not really one to go out on the town.
With the heat, I'm going to try nights

I think my favorite account is getting cleaned out first thing AM, so I'm going to try nights for a bit.  Starting now!


Those of you who do nights regularly, any secrets to staying perky?


I work nights
from 5pm to wee hours. I'm home every day with the kids. I do get child support for my 16 y/o and my "BF" and I have not yet discussed about the two little ones. I am hoping time will be split as 50/50 as we can get it as he works days, I work nights.
Tue thru Sat, nights, so it ends up being Tue thru Sun. nm
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Italian, like most nights.
Spaghetti with red sauce. Salad. I'm tired.
I work nights....
I usually split my shift so I can have a break...8 hours straight gets rough for me sitting and typing. I usually work 5-9 p.m. and 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. I go to bed at around 6 a.m. usually, it's still a little dark then and easier to get to sleep. I am single though and don't have kids. I don't think I could do my schedule otherwise. The good aspect is that I never run out of work and I make extra money for working the shifts. Plus I am not now, never have been and never will be a morning person, so I like not having to have an alarm wake me up. The bad is it's easy to be a hermit some days working the opposite of most of the rest of the world, lots of things wake me up (lawn mowers, chain saws, weed eaters, UPS, if I forget to turn my phone off and people are aghast that they woke me up and it's NOON?!?!?) Fortunately I have a supervisor who will let me flex my hours if I have family in town or something else going on. If I ever actually get a LIFE (socialy speaking), I will probably have to modify my hours, but for right now it fits me pretty well and the extra money is definitely nice.
Yes I do work nights
I can and do work when the work is available vs competing for work during popular hours/days.  I worked nights inhouse too, because I'm a night person.  And I work weekends.  Not all of us are princesses that insist on prime days/hours!
Does MQ pay shift differential for nights?
My company doesn't. My want to apply there.
Thanks, will do. About 3 nights ago my Norton caught
Did you notice the Feb 3 date?  That would be this coming Friday.  Wonder how our various transcription companies are going to fare?  ugh.  I hope they don't crash. 
Anyone else crazy enough to work nights with a..
family??  Considering changing shifts, but have only personally known other MTs working nights because their spouse did and had no kids, etc.  Spouse works regular days, 3 kids...am I asking for trouble?  lol  If any of you out there manage this...how do you work out on the weekends on your days off?  No way it would work around here with me sleeping most of the day and leaving hubby to tend to 3 kids alone! Is it too hard to flip schedules between weekdays/weekends?  Thanks for any input. 
I hate theme nights because
the contestants try to do the artist proud but don't make the songs their own. Karaoke as Simon puts it.

Who should go home? Kevin and/or Melissa, do they kick off 1 or 2 tonight? These 2 are definitely inferior to the rest of the performers. Bucky is running my close third for getting the boot. I really like him, but I don't think he's got what it takes for different song styles that will be coming down the line.

TOP 3: Chris, Mandisa and Taylor.


I've tried that the past few nights
it gets WAY too frosty!! :)
Hang in there. There will be days or nights
like this sometimes. Most likely they rebooted the system and old junk that got left behind from cherry picking got stuck in the cues. I have worked late at night and that has happened, especially since less people work at night. I am thinking it is not you, just got stuck on a night they updated the jobs. Hang in there. If they have a good reputation, odds are someone else will get stuck next time when the get the old jobs which are stuck and left undone. And remember, what goes around comes around. One day hopefully soon you will get all good reports to balance these out. Good luck.
Depends on the pay and account. My lowest average is $15.52 an hour (roughly 182.6 lines an hour) w
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That was in a movie right? He looks great on award nights.
I like him because he seems to be focused on the part he plays and not on looking good and in some movies, especially the pirate movie, he looked not so good but was hilarious.  He doesn't seem Hollywood to me all propped up and doing the guest appearances to promote his movies. 
I just switched to nights and found I like it alot.
I get a nicer variety of reports so I don't get bored. I keep the tv on behind me but don't watch it. No interruptions, no phone, no kids or hubby, although my kids are all out of high school. They still tend to interrupt. The dogs are sleeping so I don't have to let them out. I do open a window for some of that gorgeous night air. I only need about 6-7 hours of sleep, so I hit the hay when I am done and sleep for around 4 hours, get up and do a few things, then conk out again for 2-3 hours later. It seems to be working out.
I'm crazy enough to work nights with two schnauzers. sm
They wake me up promptly at noon - I open my eyes, and they are both staring a hole through my head. If I don't respond, Mollie claws at me, and Toby licks me in the face. I get up, let them out, then I go back to bed for a couple of hours.

I can't wait until we buy a house and are able to fence the yard! (or buy one with a fenced yard).
1. He works nights. 2. I work days
Ah, but the weekends. . . ..
Yeah, working nights would be great if
the rest of the world was on that shift!!

I just switched back to days after 5 or more years of graveyard. I loved it except for what you mentioned.

My only suggestion to the OP would be try to stay up the entire night before you start working, sleep that day, and then work your shift. That way, you will start getting you internal clock used to those hours.

It's not easy, so be patient. It will take about a week, maybe a little longer to get used to it. You'll probably feel a little fatigued and sluggish, but just try to hang in there. And don't be scared. I remember when I first started working graveyard, I had this feeling like I should NOT be awake right now. I felt physically okay, but emotinoally I felt like I was not doing something right... don't really know how to explain it...

Anyhow, good luck!!
1850 lines per 8 hour shift. 15.00 hour - no real requirement
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Fri and Sat nights. Various places, but real expensive for special
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if it is feasable, split that 6-hour shift into two 3-hour shifts. sm
i work a split shift and find that i am much better able to stay focused and get more work done that way. also, being 3 months pregnant you have gone through the very tiring time of pregnancy and you should start seeing an energy perk before long.
I start an hour or 2 early and then take an hour or 2 for dinner -nm
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At 200 lines a day for 6 cents, you are making $1.20 a day or 0.15 hour for an 8 hour day!!!--cm
Did you mean 2,000? Even then you would only be making $1.50 if you work 8 hours a day.
$32/hour? You said $36/hour on an earlier post. Either way would be great. n/m
xx


Just got back on a Timeshare trip - cost - 200 and included 3 nights hotel
and tickets to a bunch of free stuff! It was fun. Was it worth it? I am not sure! We got hounded pretty bad about 'buying a timeshare' but it was very affordable! Beautiful place too!
I declutter on Wed nights so the cleaning lady can clean on Thursday morning
It's easier for her to do her job if she doesn't have to pick up my kids slop.  Heck, if I wasn't so busy picking up all the time, I'd have time to do the cleaning myself.
10 reports/hour or 25 markers/hour
NM
All I can say is rest when you need it and - sm
listen to the docs.  I, personally, have not had cancer but after dealing with my 5-y/o Wilm's tumor (kidney cancer) this year, our family has been but through the wringer.  Jen handled her chemo great, lost her hair with 2 treatments to go (had 14).  Kids are great about that though, got a little self-conscious but after a few minutes in a new place would forget she had no hair. I got her a couple hats for the sun and for her to feel better too. Painted her head one day, had fun with it.  She had good days and bad of course, but for the most part handled it all very well.  Just had a clean ultrasound and chest x-ray today, yeah!  She looks like a little boy now, with dirty blond hair (was an incredible shade of red before), with now the roots growing a new color, a strawberry blond/red, really pretty.  So if you do lose your hair it may grow in different (probably will).  Jen's was very fine before, now it is a lot thicker, still straight as a board though as it was.  You may lose some weight too, but after chemo is done you will regain it once you get your appetite back.  Best wishes to you and feel free to email !
Just take out 1/3 of the mix so far and add only 2/3 of rest
nm
If she's like the rest of us MTs out there...
She's doing an excellent job and just wishes the docs would WAKE UP and start doing the same. Docs ARE incompetent for the most part, and that's sad. But you go ahead and think they walk on water, honey. When they amputate the wrong leg during your operation, you'll be the first to scream, LAWSUIT!!!!
How is this different from the rest of us?
I haven't said this before, but I've been thinking it.  So the suits only think about the bottom line and the doctors don't care whose jobs go overseas as long as it isn't theirs.  How are we any different?  How many of us cared that textile/garment workers jobs went overseas?  Until the lead paint scare, how many of us cared that toy making jobs were going overseas?  Do we stop buying the latest electronic gadgets, not to mention computers, because they are virtually all made overseas now?  For the most part, we didn't worry about those jobs, so why would anyone care about ours?  Wal-Mart, K-Mart and the other low-price retailers push their suppliers for ever cheaper products, and plants overseas are the best suppliers.  Have we stopped shopping there, or is price all we care about, too?
about themselves? Help the rest of us
I think it is wonderful that you are making so much money. Why don't you help the rest of out and share your secretes? Please...I need all the help I can get at 7 cpl.
I appreciate your responses. I had an option of line vs hour ($14/hour) but if line pays more...nm
nm
The rest of the world
Thinks Americans are suckers. We help everybody, give money away to everybody, and then they all turn on us. I'm beginning to think they are right-- we ARE suckers! Maybe it's time to tell the rest of the world to take care of their OWN people and problems for a change.
Why? Except for the rent all the rest is the same everywhere.

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