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Fatigue What is it for You?
Hi, another one of those obsessive threads with a question that has probably been answered over and over before...but I just would like to know what your fatigue levels were before treatment?, and post treatment? Was it improved by the treatment?...or has it worsened?
Maybe even during treatment if youre up for it...I know it's asking a lot, but any input on this subject would be appreciated...maybe some of you are too fatigued to answer (bad joke.) but thanks for answering with whatever information you have...Be well and have a great weekend!
Maybe even during treatment if youre up for it...I know it's asking a lot, but any input on this subject would be appreciated...maybe some of you are too fatigued to answer (bad joke.) but thanks for answering with whatever information you have...Be well and have a great weekend!
At almost 7 months post and undetectable, I still need 9-11 hours of sleep. It's the pits. I'm back to work, not as a custodian but working with the young ones and only four days a week. Right now, that is about all I think I can handle. By thursday I am dragging every limb I have.
My legs are also still hurting pretty bad. I think I'm going to have to ask for a handicap parking for awhile longer. My dream is I go to the doc, he says "Oh, I know what's wrong!" and Poof! I'm all better. But then I wake up, lol.
I feel exhausted just talking about it. Zzzzzzzzz
miss
My legs are also still hurting pretty bad. I think I'm going to have to ask for a handicap parking for awhile longer. My dream is I go to the doc, he says "Oh, I know what's wrong!" and Poof! I'm all better. But then I wake up, lol.
I feel exhausted just talking about it. Zzzzzzzzz
miss
Uhhhh.... Needing to switch hands?
Answering the same dang questions over and over?
Nahhhh. Just kidding. I don't know that I'm a fair example because I had big life stresses and cirrhosis leading up to treatment, so I was pretty ragged but did excercise vigorously several times a week.
I was OK on treatment. Dragging butt and couldn't climb stairs, but I was happy to throw baseball with the kid and play putt-putt golf and stuff. I took 3 day weekends from work many weeks.
Post tx I've had trouble getting back into the excercise rythmn. That said - I'm doing OK on other fronts. Working alot and not sleeping enough. Hmmm.. typing this with both hands gives me an idea......
Answering the same dang questions over and over?
Nahhhh. Just kidding. I don't know that I'm a fair example because I had big life stresses and cirrhosis leading up to treatment, so I was pretty ragged but did excercise vigorously several times a week.
I was OK on treatment. Dragging butt and couldn't climb stairs, but I was happy to throw baseball with the kid and play putt-putt golf and stuff. I took 3 day weekends from work many weeks.
Post tx I've had trouble getting back into the excercise rythmn. That said - I'm doing OK on other fronts. Working alot and not sleeping enough. Hmmm.. typing this with both hands gives me an idea......
Before tx I thought fatique was when I was traveling and got so exhausted I could fall asleep anywhere including hard floors. That is not fatigue.
I was tired before tx but able to exercise and function although needing some rest time in the day.I have my good days and bad days, more or less energy but never a lot.
Now, I am lying down and think about exercise. I think about raising my arm, lowering my arm. Next, I think about raising and lowering my other arm. Next, oh, I forgot where I was, I think, its rest time.
OR, I think I'm hungry. I think I'll eat. I think I'll lay here and think about eating.
Welcome to my world! And tomorrow I get to be a human dart board again. Isn't tx fun?
I was tired before tx but able to exercise and function although needing some rest time in the day.I have my good days and bad days, more or less energy but never a lot.
Now, I am lying down and think about exercise. I think about raising my arm, lowering my arm. Next, I think about raising and lowering my other arm. Next, oh, I forgot where I was, I think, its rest time.
OR, I think I'm hungry. I think I'll eat. I think I'll lay here and think about eating.
Welcome to my world! And tomorrow I get to be a human dart board again. Isn't tx fun?
I cannot speak to treatment or post treatment - - only to having Hep C (and not knowing it for years! LOL)
I have been diagnosed quite recently. Possibly contracted virus - 1983/1984 (or during '86 receiving blood products during an emergency treatment). Just had a consult yesterday with my liver doctor and was told 0 - 1 on biopsy with last VL @ 21,000. (Moe bloood tests were taken today and a LOT to report and will do so in a day or two.) He spent a good part of an hour with me! :) Now, I understand clearly why he wanted me to undergo all these tests and visit with his staff first (LOL) - - he is QUITE thorough and attentive!)
Fatigue? I'm an energetic 41 year old that actually, although not a triathlete or bi-athlete, do train with friends that are! Not in running (becuase I do NOT run, nor have I ever had the desire - I mean I have a little, but not much) but DO swim and cycle. I do not keep up on their bike mileage (although LOVE trying) but do keep up and WELL swim distance and time! :)
I experienced fatigue for two weeks recently and was QUITE unhappy! :(
- - which led me to my doctor discovering my Hep C!!!! Fortunately, the fatigue resolved and was most likely due to a 'bug' along with a heavy company travel schedule the two months preceding and nothing to do with Hep C.
I have not had any of the Hep C symptoms, nor fatigue that I've read about; although, I understand it is not unusual to NOT experience any symptoms with this virus.
There is NOT a doubt... not one doubt in my mind, that if I was plagued with fatiuge that I would NOT hesitate for an instance to treat... (this is FOR ME ONLY).. And I mean today's current treatment. If my quality of life was affected by FATIGUE from Hep C, I would do EVERYTHING possible to rid myself of the virus; whether my biopsy showed 0 or 4! That as you all say here - - is MY HUMBLE OPINION (decision). I would risk the post treatment sides. My energy is TOO much a part of who I am and my life.
There are excellent responses in this thread. There are no correct or incorrect responses. Only we, individually, can determine our threshold to fatigue.
Will be getting back to the members in more details in a couple of days regarding my consult yesterday.... and would really appreciate opinions on same.
I have been diagnosed quite recently. Possibly contracted virus - 1983/1984 (or during '86 receiving blood products during an emergency treatment). Just had a consult yesterday with my liver doctor and was told 0 - 1 on biopsy with last VL @ 21,000. (Moe bloood tests were taken today and a LOT to report and will do so in a day or two.) He spent a good part of an hour with me! :) Now, I understand clearly why he wanted me to undergo all these tests and visit with his staff first (LOL) - - he is QUITE thorough and attentive!)
Fatigue? I'm an energetic 41 year old that actually, although not a triathlete or bi-athlete, do train with friends that are! Not in running (becuase I do NOT run, nor have I ever had the desire - I mean I have a little, but not much) but DO swim and cycle. I do not keep up on their bike mileage (although LOVE trying) but do keep up and WELL swim distance and time! :)
I experienced fatigue for two weeks recently and was QUITE unhappy! :(
- - which led me to my doctor discovering my Hep C!!!! Fortunately, the fatigue resolved and was most likely due to a 'bug' along with a heavy company travel schedule the two months preceding and nothing to do with Hep C.
I have not had any of the Hep C symptoms, nor fatigue that I've read about; although, I understand it is not unusual to NOT experience any symptoms with this virus.
There is NOT a doubt... not one doubt in my mind, that if I was plagued with fatiuge that I would NOT hesitate for an instance to treat... (this is FOR ME ONLY).. And I mean today's current treatment. If my quality of life was affected by FATIGUE from Hep C, I would do EVERYTHING possible to rid myself of the virus; whether my biopsy showed 0 or 4! That as you all say here - - is MY HUMBLE OPINION (decision). I would risk the post treatment sides. My energy is TOO much a part of who I am and my life.
There are excellent responses in this thread. There are no correct or incorrect responses. Only we, individually, can determine our threshold to fatigue.
Will be getting back to the members in more details in a couple of days regarding my consult yesterday.... and would really appreciate opinions on same.
before, chronically tired but very functional worked & school busy family life. harder to get up early over time, have flexible hours at job, just accomodated the schedule to my abilities. but i was a night owl too. din't know what was going on. had a lot of aches & pains. actually how i found hcv was trying to jump into study for arthritis, which is what i thought some of the sx might be.
during tx , as drugs built up over several weeks became weaker, effort to shower dress and eat, be ready to lay down again. get up some work reduced schedule. cook,wash dishes lay down again, watch t.v. sleep if i could. mostly not.
further down, about 4 weeks. couldn't work any more energy spent just showering eating and dressing. thats when they said to take procrit. i had the meds, but waited for direction to take them. i could appreciate their forsight that i should have them available when needed. that was Dec. 26. i took weekly, now every other week. feel much better, still not good enough for work but i have a lot going on with school right now.
can't say much beyond that. all along frequent headaches, frontal. annoying. helps to do yoga stretches when sleep doesn't find me late at night. 10 minutes of stretching and body/mind feels fatigue or relaxed enough to sleep.
good luck
during tx , as drugs built up over several weeks became weaker, effort to shower dress and eat, be ready to lay down again. get up some work reduced schedule. cook,wash dishes lay down again, watch t.v. sleep if i could. mostly not.
further down, about 4 weeks. couldn't work any more energy spent just showering eating and dressing. thats when they said to take procrit. i had the meds, but waited for direction to take them. i could appreciate their forsight that i should have them available when needed. that was Dec. 26. i took weekly, now every other week. feel much better, still not good enough for work but i have a lot going on with school right now.
can't say much beyond that. all along frequent headaches, frontal. annoying. helps to do yoga stretches when sleep doesn't find me late at night. 10 minutes of stretching and body/mind feels fatigue or relaxed enough to sleep.
good luck
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