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Hello all,
Has anyone been signed off work before due to exhaustion/stress plus the diabetes on the side too?!
I'm currently working close to 60 hours a week (6 days), 1 full time role and 1 part time - this is due to finances, not out of choice lol! On top of this I am not sleeping well and havn't done for more than a year, averaging about 6 hours a night. It's all become too much now and i'm becoming very forgetful, making mistakes at work and feel extremly overwhelmed. I'm crying most days just because I am so exhausted, and as a result i am leaning more towards comfort foods, smoking more and feeling awful. As a joke my work colleagues are hedging bets on how close I am to a nervous breakdown!!
I went to A&E a few weeks ago with bad heart palpitations and chest pain/tightness which comse and goes but recently I have been feeling them everyday. They also said my blood pressure was high and I was most likely exhausted.
I cannot carry on for much longer and am trying to work out a way I can stop working all these hours without the financial implications hitting me too hard - if I see the GP with all these concerns are they likely to sign me off work for a little while? I feel as though I am at the verge of losing my s**t!
I'm not depressed, just extremly run down and exhausted and stressed!
Thank you.
Has anyone been signed off work before due to exhaustion/stress plus the diabetes on the side too?!
I'm currently working close to 60 hours a week (6 days), 1 full time role and 1 part time - this is due to finances, not out of choice lol! On top of this I am not sleeping well and havn't done for more than a year, averaging about 6 hours a night. It's all become too much now and i'm becoming very forgetful, making mistakes at work and feel extremly overwhelmed. I'm crying most days just because I am so exhausted, and as a result i am leaning more towards comfort foods, smoking more and feeling awful. As a joke my work colleagues are hedging bets on how close I am to a nervous breakdown!!
I went to A&E a few weeks ago with bad heart palpitations and chest pain/tightness which comse and goes but recently I have been feeling them everyday. They also said my blood pressure was high and I was most likely exhausted.
I cannot carry on for much longer and am trying to work out a way I can stop working all these hours without the financial implications hitting me too hard - if I see the GP with all these concerns are they likely to sign me off work for a little while? I feel as though I am at the verge of losing my s**t!
I'm not depressed, just extremly run down and exhausted and stressed!
Thank you.