When my mind is reeling like that, I put on a fan for some White noise, then I try to focus on my relaxing my toes, then my foot, up to my calves..very slowly really relaxing every little muscle from my feet to my head, Sometimes I start with my fingers, It really shows you how tense you are when you focus on letting that muscle go and you thought you already had! even letting your tongue fall to the bottom of your mouth and the space between your eyes! I hope it helps :):)

I'm on 2x tx and I have the opposite problem, sleeping too much for 2 days after the shot.

You were on tiple tx, right? maybe it's the incivik that causes this problem.

Before tx when I had hard time with sleep, I would count down until my mind forgets the annoying problem or whatever is preventing my mind from relaxing.

@Arabella1, Next time I'll try your idea. Thanks.

Sleep has nothing to do w incivek....

Sleep deficiency is caused by Riba. Although it has a short half life, the Riba takes a while to completely leave the bidy, upto 6 mos at times.

You are off tx a short while, give yourself a break. You also took Victrelis if I am correct, so there were alot of drugs in your system for along time....be patient sweetheart.

Refrain from caffiene after 11am, try mediating as suggested, listen to soft music, read the Bible or another book of spirituality.
When your mind begins to race, make a conscious effort to change your thoughts, because you CAN!

A sleep aid w Dr's approval is helpful when needed....
Continue Drink your water. It's a lifetime commitment. Our bodies are 65- 80% water...so drink for good health!

Take a warm not hot bath before bed.
No noise for 20 min before bed.
Deep focusedPrayer...on or to whatever or whomever.

Tell your Dr and call the hotlines for the meds to inform themof these post sx's. Our tx does not end once we finish the drugs. It "ends" @ 6 mos post tx SVR.
It really never ends, tho....at least that is in my honest opinion....
hugs betsy.... Thinking of you friend oxo janet

Try to practice good sleep hygiene. Sometimes it's the little things that can make a big difference!
http://www.umm.edu/sleep/sleep_hyg.htm

I had the same issue..... I tried all the various methods.... white noise, meditation......finally I just gave in and knew it would end at some time or another. My days and nights were mixed up. I could not fall asleep til dawn then slept til 2pm. So, I just listened to my body and slept when I could!
Some sleep their lives away on tx, I wanted to be one of those!!!!
I find now, when I over do it and my body is so tired, I will toss and turn and turn on my Sirius radio to the spa channel but still I lay there. I'm off tx for a year this month. Fortunately I did not have to work during tx. U r doing better than u think! Working full time etc...... It will be over shortly!!!
PS my mind just races too,,,then the next day, everything I worried about while trying to sleep did NOT even matter at all!

I recently looked into "natural" sleep aids but I am not sure if they are safe for my liver. So I passed.

What about the sleepy time tea? I still drink 2 cups a night w/2 teabags each. If I run out < I panic! I'm a junkie herbal tea drinker!!

I've had problems sleeping for about 12 years. It's no better or worse for me - I think - on treatment, but I have read that HCV screws with your body chemistry in a way that can affect sleep.

I took pills -mostly benzodiazepines - for years, but they were creating other problems so I slowly weaned off last year.

By the way, I've done TWO sleep studies where they hook you up to all of the machines and watch you sleep all night. BOTH tests showed my sleep as being near-normal.

So now I just do everything I can to relax, and accept whatever sleep I can get. I'm assuming that when I'm off these meds and my liver gets back to normal, there's no reason why my sleep shouldn't normalize...

One more note: I had EXACTLY the same thing...you're absolutely wiped and could sleep for 12 hours, but as soon as your head hits the pillow your mind starts racing.

After the two near-normal sleep studies, the docs said I have something called "sleep-state misperception", where your brain doesn't think you're sleeping but you really are. At first I thought those guys are quacks, but two studies at different labs said the same thing.

Once I accepted that, my sleep slowly improved. Just had to power through it and "train" the brain to sleep again. It'll improve once the tx is over :-)

ditto me too..speed racer mind....take care

when I was on treatment, I had an angel that would fly in through the ceiling and comfort me until I fell asleep.
I miss my angel.

Betsy, sleeping is one thing I was blessed with while on treatment. I had some many side effects and I have to take meds for itching, which made you sleepy.

so many not some

oooooo poor you. my sleeping is getting worse too, could it still be the meds still in your system? i went to my spiritual thing yesterday and it didn't even get better that night, usually connecting to my group helps with sleep so it really must be the tx. You sound so busy I bet everyone has expected you to be 'fixed' now. HUGS. take it easy

During tx I was given atarax (hydroxyzine) for itching, but it made me sleepy as well. Benadryl can help also. They are antihistamines, not narcotics so they're not habit forming Check with your doctor to make sure they're OK for your liver. Hopefully you'll feel better soon.

PS I had sleep problems for a couple weeks after tx, I blamed it on interferon withdrawal, since INF causes fatigue. Feeling OK now though..