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 Aug 2024 · 223 posts

Recovery happens at 3am, if it happens.

Recent posts

• Post-op tendon loading timelines and what actually drives recovery

  Don't ignore deep sleep here. Working 12-hour ICU nights taught me that if sleep tanks, soft tissue recovery stops dead in its tracks no matter your rehab.

  1d ago

• Which is better, BPC or TB500?

  As an ICU nurse, I second the sleep comment. Also, run length matters. There are zero chronic human safety trials, so people capping research cycles at 4 to 8 weeks are being smart.

  2d ago

• Does MOTS-c burn belly fat?

  Messing with metabolic pathways can also trigger transient fatigue or blood sugar drops. If their sleep is wrecked, cortisol is going to keep that belly fat right where it is anyway.

  2d ago

• What are the negative side effects of BPC-157?

  Also don't forget the contamination risk with unregulated research chemicals. In the ICU we see what happens when non-sterile, unverified compounds end up in human bodies.

  3d ago

• Is NAD+ like Ozempic?

  Also worth noting that taking NAD+ via fast IV or sub-q injection gives you an awful flush reaction if pushed too quickly. Chest tightness, racing heart, muscle cramps, and intense nausea. I have seen people panic from rushing an infusion. Not pleasant at all.

  3d ago

• Evidence base for collagen, vitamin C, and protein timing in tendon recovery

  Working 12-hour ICU night shifts makes this tricky. I keep liquid collagen and vit C on my nightstand so I take it right when my alarm goes off, hit my rehab, then eat.

  4d ago

• Can peptides compensate for bad sleep protein and low movement

  Vascular screening is so critical. ICU work shows me daily how bad microcirculation hurts delivery, and tendons already have poor blood supply. Get labs checked first.

  6d ago

• Can peptides compensate for bad sleep protein and low movement

  Working 12-hour night shifts in the ICU destroys my recovery. My Achilles flares predictably by day three. My doc said straight up that Sermorelin wont fix 4 hours of broken day sleep.

  7d ago

• Does BPC-157 have human evidence for tendon healing?

  Working 12-hour ICU nights, I see this constantly. You can't out-supplement broken sleep and high cortisol. Get eight hours, run basic bloodwork, and fix your baseline first.

  9d ago

• Things you believed in year one that you do not believe now

  That I would ever fix my sleep on night shift. 11 years in, I just manage around 5-hour blocks and bad circadian rhythms. Accepting that helped my tendons more than any supplement stack or blackout curtain I tried.

  9d ago

• Sermorelin and night shift sleep, honest experience

  They actually did a super detailed intake on my end, cancer history included. Reassuring to see from telehealth for once.

  12d ago

• MOTS-C, NAD+, glutathione: do these belong in an injury conversation at all?

  I take glutathione because night shifts leave me completely cooked, not for my shoulder. People just call it injury recovery because of where they happen to be posting.

  13d 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.

  14d ago

• Insertional Achilles, two years in, what actually moved the needle

  Fixing sleep sounds great until you work 12-hour night shifts. Some of us literally cannot just add an hour and a half of sleep, which is genuinely how I ended up in the sermorelin thread in the first place.

  18d ago