I just need to vent some. I'm working 3rd shift, and I just don't like it. It feels like I can never get enough rest. Come weekends, all I want to do is sleep. But I can't, because I have my kids. They see how tired I am and just push me and push and push some more. It's making me nuts! I know they are just children, and I try to be patient with them, but it's so hard when they misbehave the way the do! And I feel like I can't sit down to relax on the weekends without falling asleep wherever I am. Then, of course, my kids do horrendous things at this time. I am just at a loss as to what I need to do. I think my thyroid is out of whack, but I haven't been taking my meds for it. And I also haven't been taking my anti-depressants, either. I don't have a doctor here yet, and need to get on it, but geez... I am just so tired all the time. Thanks, for listening, and if you read it all... bless you! I just needed to air out.

Vent away, we all have too sometimes.

Big squeeze of support too you.
Try to get to a doctor andget those meds.
You certainly shouldn't expect yourselftobe functioning at your best with things out of wack.
As for the behavour stuff with the kids,well that happens too.
They know exactly which buttons to push too.

I love the everyone is on time out. We each have to go to our rooms for a time out.
And time out count only starts counting when there is quiet. No whining, slamming etc etc.
Generally I stop whining soon enough and the count down is on.(ha ha ha)

Hope the evening is restful for you!
Harmony

OH how I feel your pain, not the 3rd shift piece of it, but I do understand to a degree! I've been going to school online in the evenings and working 40 hour work weeks and my kids have figured out that I'm overloaded. They are pressing buttons left and right too!

I actually went to my doctor this week because the stress seems to bring on migraines with me. I got some meds for the migraines and, after two years of not, I asked to be put back on my anti-anxiety meds. I've been taking Mommy "time-outs" about 2 times a night lately. I thought it was excessive.

Certainly vent here and find a doctor. Do you have insurance set up already? I know that my insurance company had a great web site of doctors to start calling that took my insurance. I actually recently transferred to the group my mother goes to. They specialize in women's health and I thought someone that knew the family history of chronic pain would be a good place to be.

Anyhow...I'm rambling on. Like I said, I just reached my breaking point this week and asked for outside help. My breaking points seem to be sooner these days (a good thing) so don't let yours go too far!

I was getting Migraines, too, and I have Imitrex for those, and I have anti-depressants, and I have thyroid meds, but I jsut can't remember to take them when I'm supposed to. My thyroid meds I'm supposed to take in AM, but by time I get home (around 7 am), I usually just fall into bed. And I'm supposed to take the Lexapro in the evening, but I'm scared it'll keep me up all day if I do. And they are both put up. I'm one of those "out of sight, out of mind" people, and I can't remember some things. It's scary. I was trying to switch my doctor on my insurance website today and it won't let me. Since I transferred with my job, my insurance is fine. I just need to make an appt and GO. And I need to get my thyroid tested again. Since I had surgery, it could have thrown it off more than it was, in which case, the meds I have wouldn't help anyway. I'm rambling, sorry... just so stressed out here.