Hepatitis C Support Group
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne viral disease which can cause liver inflammation, fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver cancer. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is spread by blood-to-blood contact with an infected person's blood. Many people with HCV infection have no symptoms and are unaware of the need to seek treatment. Hepatitis C infects an estimated 150-200 million people worldwide.
Is sleeping disorder one of the side effect of having liver disease.
Since the old post on Sleep, was from a old member who is no longer here, I thought we should have a new post, and opinion and input from the current members, suffering from hepatitis c.
In my opinion, Hep c is definately to blame in my case, for the sleeping disorder I have inherited from having Hepatitis c at one point in my life.
I'm have many symptoms of being narcoleptic.
Since doing treatment and managed to kill the hepatitis c virus, over 5 years ago, I have been sleeping an hour here and there, and not at night time either.
I take the day for the night.
Meaning, I sleep during the day, and not many hours, maybe one here and one there, then I am up till 3am sometime 4am, then get up at 5am to send my family off to job, or school.
Then I work on the internet on a few websites, for this liver disease including DS, and then around 10-11am, I take a nap and get up around noon., and so on.
I do this twice a day, take an hour nap, sometime maybe 2 hours, but don't sleep more than 4 hours in the 24 hours that do pass.
So yes I definately blame hepatitis c, for this sleeping disorder.
As for taking something to sleep, I believe that being on pain medication for chronic pain, and Osteoarthritis, and DDD, again probably activated from doing the tx for a year, and anti-depressants since doing tx, is enough pills for me, in one day.
So I rather not sleep or rather sleep the way I do now, than take something that will keep me sleepy all day.
This is my story, and my opinion, now what is your sleeping patern?
Love & Respect,
Mckenzie
genotype 1a
status: undie
One day at the time.
Since the old post on Sleep, was from a old member who is no longer here, I thought we should have a new post, and opinion and input from the current members, suffering from hepatitis c.
In my opinion, Hep c is definately to blame in my case, for the sleeping disorder I have inherited from having Hepatitis c at one point in my life.
I'm have many symptoms of being narcoleptic.
Since doing treatment and managed to kill the hepatitis c virus, over 5 years ago, I have been sleeping an hour here and there, and not at night time either.
I take the day for the night.
Meaning, I sleep during the day, and not many hours, maybe one here and one there, then I am up till 3am sometime 4am, then get up at 5am to send my family off to job, or school.
Then I work on the internet on a few websites, for this liver disease including DS, and then around 10-11am, I take a nap and get up around noon., and so on.
I do this twice a day, take an hour nap, sometime maybe 2 hours, but don't sleep more than 4 hours in the 24 hours that do pass.
So yes I definately blame hepatitis c, for this sleeping disorder.
As for taking something to sleep, I believe that being on pain medication for chronic pain, and Osteoarthritis, and DDD, again probably activated from doing the tx for a year, and anti-depressants since doing tx, is enough pills for me, in one day.
So I rather not sleep or rather sleep the way I do now, than take something that will keep me sleepy all day.
This is my story, and my opinion, now what is your sleeping patern?
Love & Respect,
Mckenzie
genotype 1a
status: undie
One day at the time.
I never had this problem when I was drinking, a 12 pack would put me right out by midnight. Since I've stopped, the insomnia has started. Hopefully I'll adjust in a year or two....
I believe that HCV and peg and copeg manifests whatever existed before.
Great post, MAck...
cee
For some reason, Alzheimers makes people nocturnal and they start roaming around at night, rummaging, looking for someone or something. We learned that a mild sleeper at night would put them into a deep sleep, then we'd keep them busy during the day so they wouldn't nap. This takes about a week, to get them turned back around. It didn't always work, but did most of the time. Another trick is to do NOTHING in your bed room but go to bed to sleep. Don't take your computer in there, don't read in bed, don't watch TV. Your brain starts associating your bedroom with sleeping and tells itself that you are going to bed to sleep, and then it can actually happen. If you can't sleep, or wake up during the night, go to a chair to read or get some warm milk, but don't lay in bed tossing and turning. Lay off ANY caffeine after 5:00. These are just suggestions you might try. I don't advocate sleeping pills, but for short term use, to get your clock turned back around, it can help.
Extreme fatigue & lethargy alternates with 3-4 hours sleep, like JJ described. Learning to accept & live with it.
Not on TX, 1A, VL 2million.
For some reason, Alzheimers makes people nocturnal and they start roaming around at night, rummaging, looking for someone or something. We learned that a mild sleeper at night would put them into a deep sleep, then we'd keep them busy during the day so they wouldn't nap. This takes about a week, to get them turned back around. It didn't always work, but did most of the time. Another trick is to do NOTHING in your bed room but go to bed to sleep. Don't take your computer in there, don't read in bed, don't watch TV. Your brain starts associating your bedroom with sleeping and tells itself that you are going to bed to sleep, and then it can actually happen. If you can't sleep, or wake up during the night, go to a chair to read or get some warm milk, but don't lay in bed tossing and turning. Lay off ANY caffeine after 5:00. These are just suggestions you might try. I don't advocate sleeping pills, but for short term use, to get your clock turned back around, it can help. "
Oh the Ol "Sun Downers" syndrome at it's finest!, I worked a s med tech for a nursing facility here. and spent several sdoing private duty through the state of Ca IHSS prog..
Back to sleep issue, i do know Mike off his meds would get virtually NO sleep at all, and the poor guy takes a ton including Ambien, xanax, pain meds, and a tricycolic antideppressant (sp) Deseryl /aka trazadone , which has a tendancy to knock someone out init self.. Me ,I can take a benadryl and be out for the next 8 hours (much to Mike''s chagrin) with him it's like a crap shoot, some things work, others do not and with the ones that DO work he runs the risk of getting too used to them and they stop working at all
God bless,
Rob
its interesting to read the other posts on the subject. thanks for posting mckenzie my friend.
keep up the good work and be happy:)
x