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posted by NightShiftNurse 14d ago
Sermorelin and night shift sleep, honest experience
Eleven years of ICU nights. My sleep is fragmented, my recovery from anything is slow, and I have a chronically annoyed left shoulder that I cannot seem to get past because I keep sabotaging it with a schedule I am not going to quit.
Sermorelin came up in my telehealth review as a GH pathway option, and the pitch is sleep quality, body composition, and recovery capacity rather than tendon healing directly.
Six months in, here is what I would actually say.
Sleep depth: better, and this is the one I feel most confident about. I wake up fewer times during day sleep. My watch agrees, for whatever a consumer watch is worth.
Recovery: harder to call. I feel less wrecked after a stretch of four nights. That is exactly the kind of subjective claim I would question if someone else made it.
Shoulder: unchanged in any way I can point to, which is honestly what I expected. Nothing about this is a tendon therapy and I did not go in thinking it was.
Body composition: some change, and I also started lifting twice a week in month two, so, useless data point.
Overall: the only claim I would defend is the sleep one, and I would not defend it hard.
Recovery happens at 3am, if it happens.
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