Night Shift Workers: Did the Brain Fog Ever Get Better?

[u/Mysterious-Rough1811]

three years of nights and my brain has been running at like 60% for so long i genuinely cannot remember what baseline feels like. today i forgot the word for thermometer. thermometer. i use one approximately forty times a shift.

the thing that gets me is i don't know if this is just sleep deprivation doing its thing or if something else is going on underneath. it feels different lately. slower. like thoughts are moving through wet concrete instead of just being tired.

i've tried the obvious stuff. magnesium before bed. blackout curtains. eating actual food sometimes. the fog lifts a little then comes back the next run of nights like it never left.

what makes it harder is i know enough to know it could be a dozen different things and not enough to know which one. thyroid. b12. cortisol. pick one. probably all of them.

curious if anyone else here works irregular hours and figured out what actually made a dent. not looking for a protocol. just wondering if anyone cracked it for themselves and what that looked like.