Hi Zhuk, glad to hear everything has been going well for you re Tx.
Good to see you back, been wondering if you were ok

That’s great cc2b – Good luck on your Tx

Well, nice to have found this little corner Honestly, I’ve been on this site for a few months and still keep finding areas I didn’t know existed.
Anyway, I’m 52 yo female, G3a, diagnosed 1980. Started Sof/Dac 13/01/16. Earlier Doc had suggested 12 weeks but by the time I had my GP2U consult further research suggested 16 weeks would be better.
It’s only been 4 days and I have been feeling –
* speedy, heart racing, intense sweating, highly animated, energetic bursts – all ’round ‘hyper!
* doing lots more during day than ever normally capable so I’m ‘crashing hard in arvo and going to bed utterly ‘trashed’;sleeping solidly but waking suddenly ‘alert’ and mind ‘wired’.
* appetite normal, not 1st day, very dehydrated from sweating profusely.
* normally drink a few wines a night but stopped to start Tx; haven’t had hard drugs for many years and not smoked pot for about a year (miss that though )
* having a roller-coaster ride with emotions/moods; I feel joyful and energetic at times, sadness and grief + crying spells and generally overwhelmed.

I was thinking about what Bloot was describing with how he’s feeling. It’s all in my face now too. When writing my ‘history’ elsewhere, a lot of it really hit me hard. Looking at my timeline I realised I was younger than I’ve ‘thought’ when i got infected, therefore also my Bro and cousin. I was diagnosed Summer, late 1980, which means I was only 17 when we went on this ‘Drug Bender’, I was still violently ill when I turned 18 and didn’t celebrate big time. I was living at my Dad’s with my little bro, 9 yo, looking after me. I remember him cooking me my favourite meal and baking a chocolate cake for me . He died suddenly, ‘drug misadventure’ (gotta love the way the cops deliver that news!), 2013 only 41 yrs. My Dad died at 51 yrs, nearly 20 yrs ago – cirrhosis; my cousin (him and my other bro intro’d me to the hard shit) died 2012, 51 yo – beaten to death in Cambodia; my surviving bro, also HCV G3a, cirrhosis doing badly because he won’t stop alcohol/drugs, 51 yo, given 2 yrs to live nearly 5 yrs ago, so that’s something. All this loss has been hitting me.
I’ve been ‘sick’ for so long and worse in past couple of years, I don’t even know what ‘normal’ should feel like. Past 4-5 yrs the Specialists telling me to wait for new Tx but also telling me if I didn’t get Tx soon I wouldn’t see my 60th! So, I assumed I would die from this virus and never really know what it was like to have energy and do things without severe pain, feeling unmotivated, anxious and depressed to the end.

Now, the past few months have been a whirlwind of change for me and I think my head is still trying to catch up, I’m feeling overwhelmed.
I’m grateful for this site because I have absolutely no-one I can talk about this with.

Thank you all for sharing and I truly appreciate the support, info and life experience given here

Hi AA, Congrats on starting Tx! I started Spf/Dac too, on Wednesday. I’ve been having a ‘speedy’ sensation and then ‘crashing’, intense sweating, very emotional moodswings – feel happy and joyful/crying and ‘grieving’; had 2 great nights of sleep but the snapping awake suddenly is there, I’m doing so much more during the day that i’ve been utterly trashed at night and feel asleep easily and slept solid for past 2 nights.

Good Luck and look forward to hearing about how your experiencing your Tx.

Love this too…
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k2WhvIb0Q4[/video]

Hahahah, that’s awesome Ariel! I’m on Sof/Dac; Dr James recommended 16 weeks because I’m G3a – tougher to beat!
I know what you mean barely being able to get through each day, I just got rapidly worse in the past 2 years. Mind you there has been added stress in my life but I’m only 52 and shouldn’t feel so bad
I started Homeschooling my son almost 2 1/2 yrs ago; I have several cages of birds; and just being a single mother and sole carer of a beautiful boy (who has ASD) that is highly dependent; looking after a house/yard; doing everything on my own is just goddamm exhausting. When you have a bad day and can’t do much it all adds up waiting for the next day

It’s been hot here around 31 C, God where are you to be 40 C one day and 20C the next?
I feel totally gross with all this sweating though and paranoid to be around the public.
I just got back from an appointment with a GP – not my current one – for script refills – spent 1/2 hr having to describe and justify why I have been prescribed these drugs e.g. Endone (love how autofill keeps wanting to put Undone – something to that ), Oxycontin – I use them as a last resort, not actually as they were prescribed for daily use. So I may use them for a few days in a row – sometimes I get migraines that last a week though – and then not touch them for a week or so. I also don’t take them a few times a day because they make me ‘hyper’ and I can’t sleep.
Now I have to wait to see my GP next Monday to inform her I started on the Tx. I’m hoping she will monitor me by doing requested blood tests at the 4 week intervals. Last time I saw her, over a month ago, she had been ‘scared’ off by the Specialist at the Public Hospital Clinic I go to.
He had promised to write a script for me, told me to do some research -referred to this site – and let my DR know. i told her about it and what I’d decided to do and she was happy to do tests. She eventually spoke to him on the phone to request script and then tells me he wants me to do it via him and she wouldn’t have the experience with these DAA’s to treat me. I contact the Hep Nurse he’s requested I go through and find out he’s promising everyone but not actually writing scripts at all! He’s just telling everyone to ‘wait’ for the Gov to decide on passing the PBS thing (this is back in early Dec. ). I got pissed off and went through GP2U, got blood done, Fibroscore, ordered meds and started Tx yesterday.
So, like you, I took my health into my hands and went proactive – she’ will probably be quite surprised!

Oh, God i’m drenched in sweat and can’t stop drinking water. I’m the opposite re weight. I’ve always been a skinny kid/slender woman but suddenly about a year ago I started gaining weight very rapidly and i’m horrified to be 65 kgs! OMG, i’ve only been that when I was pregnant. I can’t understand it because diet/exercise routine didn’t really change. It feels like ‘fluid’ mostly around abdomen, can’t wait to shift it though, I feel very uncomfortable this weight.
Ok, I’m still ‘hyper’ and could go on but got to feed my boy and head off to a ceramics lesson

Have a Good Day