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NightShiftNurse

regular · Sacramento, CA

ICU nights for 11 years. Sleep is my biggest recovery variable and it is the one I control least. Sermorelin thread regular.

Joined Jul 2026 · 30 posts

Recovery happens at 3am, if it happens.

Recent posts

  • Does injecting NAD+ make sense if it just breaks down to NMN/NR/NAM anyway

    IV NAD+ wrecked me for the first hour, chest tightness and nausea, but I slept like a rock that night. No idea what that means mechanistically.

    5d ago

  • Stacking MOTS-C, NAD+ and other mitochondrial peptides during a rehab block

    Sleep did more for my recovery than any peptide stack ever has.

    6d ago

  • Splitting tesamorelin/ipamorelin into AM and PM instead of one bedtime shot

    Curious if anyone here has actually split their nightly GH peptide dose into a morning and evening shot instead of just one before bed. I run nights so my natural GH pulse timing is already a mess, and I've seen people talk about doing half the dose on waking and half before sleep for steadier release instead of one bigger pulse. Anyone tried this with tesamorelin or ipamorelin and noticed a real difference in recovery, sleep quality, or how sore you are after a hard training block? Or is this just a theory that sounds good on paper.

    23d ago

  • Insomnia and early waking after starting bpc-157/tb-500 post hip surgery

    I see this a lot in the sleep threads, not just with this stack. Anything that bumps systemic repair activity or just gives you more daytime energy can mess with sleep architecture the first couple weeks. For me mornings felt wired on anything new, you might try splitting the dose or moving it earlier in the day so it's fully metabolized by bedtime.

    24d ago

  • Shoulder replacement next week, building my recovery stack

    Honestly the thing that'll move the needle most post-op is sleep and you're about to get surgery-grade garbage sleep for weeks. Worth thinking about that more than the 6th peptide on the list.

    25d ago

  • Where to pin for achilles tendinopathy when there's no skin to pinch near the tendon

    Same here, thigh rotation works fine on night shift when I'm too tired to be precise.

    25d ago

  • DHT crashed to 7 on subq GHK-Cu, anyone else seeing this

    Low DHT alone can absolutely tank libido and mood, that part isn't in your head.

    1mo ago

  • Sudden full body seizing and burning on a normal NAD+ dose, batch was the same

    Been running NAD+ IM every few days for a few months, delt injections, usually 100mg and sometimes bump to 150mg. I know the flush, it feels like I mainlined a pack of cigarettes, that's normal for me. Tonight was not that. My whole body locked up hard, burning everywhere, I could barely get a breath in and had to consciously fight to control my breathing. Ended up face down on the bed just riding it out, maybe 45 seconds total. No blood on withdrawal, same vial I've been using for weeks. I work ICU nights so I've seen a lot of bad reactions in other people, never had one myself. Anyone else had something like this happen out of nowhere with a dose they'd already tolerated fine before.

    1mo ago

  • Sermorelin versus HGH, what's the actual difference?

    Funny enough sermorelin used to actually be FDA approved for diagnosing GH deficiency in kids, branded version got pulled from the market voluntarily at some point. Now it's compounding pharmacy territory only, at least here in the states.

    1mo ago

  • Sermorelin versus HGH, what's the actual difference?

    Big difference. Sermorelin makes your own pituitary do the work, HGH is the finished hormone straight into you. With sermorelin your body still has veto power, somatostatin kicks in and shuts it down once levels get high enough. HGH doesn't care what your body thinks, you get whatever dose you injected.

    1mo ago

  • Has anyone used TB-500 for hair loss?

    Seasonal shedding is a real thing too, I lose way more hair in the shower every fall regardless of what I'm running. Hard to separate peptide effect from that noise honestly.

    1mo ago

  • GHK-Cu for hair loss, anyone tried it?

    I started thinning postpartum and a coworker swore by a copper peptide serum, took like 4 months before she noticed less shedding in the shower. Could be the biotin she was also taking, could be time, hard to isolate one variable when you're doing five things.

    1mo ago

  • Is the cancer risk with sermorelin actually a thing or is that overblown

    this is exactly the kind of answer I needed, thank you both. going to add an IGF-1 check to my next labs since I'm already getting blood drawn anyway

    1mo ago

  • Is the cancer risk with sermorelin actually a thing or is that overblown

    Had a coworker at the hospital ask me point blank if the sermorelin I take is going to give me cancer. I laughed it off but then couldn't actually answer her. I know it bumps GH and IGF-1 but is there real risk here or is this just internet noise. Been on it about 4 months for sleep and recovery from nights, would like an honest answer before I keep going.

    1mo ago

  • NAD+ IV versus oral versus patches, which actually gets absorbed?

    This tracks with what I see on the floor honestly, big IV pushes of anything don't mean the tissue is soaking it up, kidneys just do their job and dump the excess. Doesn't mean the drip does nothing, just means you're not getting a 1 to 1 return on what's infused.

    1mo ago