Obsessiveness

I recently started tx and have done 2 shots so far.  I have suffered so much for lack of sleep.  Ambien didn't work very well (it used to knock me out before tx) and Trazadone helps just a little (tossing and turning all night and then feel like I've been hit by a truck the next a.m.).  I am having such anxiety and obsessive thoughts - mostly in the evening when I'm trying to go to sleep.  Last week I was exhausted but couldn't rest until my house was clean!  I was having a really hard time getting things together at work too.  The doctor told me to lower my dose to 135 (I'm on pegasys) for the second shot since I could not sleep for days and we could go up slowly.  I'm doing 24 weeks. Anyway, I do not do well on ADs.  I have the same anxiety with them.  I have tried so many over the years.  I became addicted to anti-anxiety meds like ativan a year ago and it was sheer HELL getting off of them.  I don't want to start that cycle again.

PLEASE if anyone has had similar problems and has found a solution, please let me know.  All the other sx (chills, fever) have been tolerable but I'm starting to feel so uncomfortable in my own skin. I'm a single mom, and my 13 year old son has been wonderful. I can tell he's worried about my brain too.  

Thanks

-cbee

[new-sojourn]

tx made me speedy also.  I cleaned and organized all my closets and drawers.  I did 24wks of 3 shots a wk and 5 ribas a day.  I was on peg intron.  and had all my shots in the morning and then a walk.

My partner joked that if I had been on 48wks I could have finished the garage and storage sheds.

Sugar and caffine can cause that jumpiness.  cut caffine all out, read labels  If I couldn't sleep, I tried for 'resting' or surfed the web.

Melatonin for an herbal sleep aid and otc's also work.

Many of us are medical marijuana users and that works too.

A long, brisk daily walk was very important.  or take up scrapbooking. that seems to be a very popular obsessive-compulsive activity.

I also write long letters to Martha Stewart...figure she wasn't sleepin' well these last few yrs either!

[cuteus]

I would be weary of reducing dosages so early in Tx, can you take  a sleep aid?

[ificu1st]

I had the same problem and they put me on mirtazapine.  Worked wonders for me.  Slept like a baby after that.

[layla]

ditto to cuteus, I would be VARY wary of reducing dosage.

[Tess Marie]

DO everything you possibly can to NOT CUT the dosage. I am speaking from experience. It definitely cuts your % of clearing. See Tess Marie's post under other stories.

[Bekka~]

Just a question about your post: you said....
Many of us are medical marijuana users and that works too.

This is permitted by your doctor?