Hi Sunflower,

Congratulations on starting your treatment. Your post reminded me that one of the many joys of being cured of HepC is not having to worry quite so much about my blood around other people!

During my treatment I just tried to eat a healthy, balanced diet with a bit of leeway for coffee and chocolate on the side. The Harvoni will do the heavy lifting but I felt that good food, exercise and water would help things along a little both mentally and physically.

I wish you well over the next few weeks and looking forward to hearing from you along the way.

Coral

Hello Sunflower,

It’s not unusual to be unsettled and “a bit flu like” when you start treatment. This relates to the viral death happening.

Keeping your fluid intake up can really help.

Ordinary analgesics like aspirin, ibuprofen, paracetamol (acetaminophen) can help with the headaches if fluids don’t do the trick.

In terms of natural things for sleep real melatonin 2-6mg 1 hour before bed can help. Sunshine and daylight suppress melatonin so when it gets dark the levels rise and you get sleepy. Note that homoeopathic melatonin is unlikely to help as it just contains water so if you are going to use it get the real stuff. You can also use any of the routine sleeping tablets while on HCV medication.

Here is a blog post of mine on insomnia and how to treat it: https://fixhepc.com/blog/item/82-how-do-i-fix-my-insomnia.html

Glad to hear it’s been fairly easy for you! I had an occasional headache and insomnia for a bit but the occasional headache and insomnia was gone within a week or two. As far as my tx with Harvoni, it was a walk in the park, except! I did have some pain throughout tx but that’s b/c I had a broken leg and arm when I was younger, so I now have arthritis and I went through tx when I was 62 years old . I took Xanax to help me sleep but in the beginning it didn’t help. Good luck to you, I think you’ll be fine!!

Hi Sunflower Trying to post back it disappeared ha!
I’ll try again
Yep I checked that issue with my go to people from here Emilio and GAJ and yep just wean yourself forwards the hour is fine.
You sound great and sleeping enough. I had the awake thing too so do plenty it would seem but I found after tx that resolved fast.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon
Sending happies
Ariel

Hi everyone
I started SofoDac a month ago.
Going fine, no side effects at all.
Today I did blood tests and my AST and ALT still high.
AST – 66
ALT – 110
I’m dissapointed, expected it to be lower.
I’m going to do viral load tests, but have to wait 15 days for results.
Any thoughts, experiences.
Thank you

No, I’m not exercising, God forbid.
I’m just somehow dissapointed. Couple of days before starting the treatment my AST/ALT were 54/32. Now after one month of treatment they doubled. Don’t know what to think.
Anyway I’ll keep you posted. An hour ago I gave blood for the viral load test. Fifteen days or so. Patience is a virtue.
Thank you so much you replied so quickly.

I have to tell you English is not my first language and I don’t quite understand all this.
I didn’t make Hep B tests, now I realise I should have done it.
It just happened because I’ve never experienced any problems with my liver.
In last couple of months I did four blood tests.
First AST/ALT were around 180/150
Second 200/180, I was under a lot of stress
After Christmas they dropped to 32/54, I was very happy. This is all before I started with SofoDac
January 2nd I started SofoDac treatment
Now first four weeks finished, I figured its time for tests. Somehow I expected it to be lower than 66/110.
I have to underline it’s been a very stressful month, still is. Problems at work, etc.
I have a fatty liver.
So, please tell me, what happens if I make a Hep B test and it shows positive?
Thank you so much for your help and support.