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Posted 4/25/2013 10:15 PM (GMT 0)
           my caretaker just got a call from his drs office.  he was positive for hep c antibody.  i feel terrible.  we followed all the precautions.  his dr is running a pcr rna and a abdominal ultrasound.

                                barry

Posted 4/25/2013 10:58 PM (GMT 0)
This stinks. I am sorry. My husband was always really concerned someone would inadvertanly get Hep C from him, and still is even with SVR. Let us know how his testing comes back. Hugs...I know you need one. themiz
Posted 4/26/2013 12:10 AM (GMT 0)
Sorry to hear that, Barry.

Hugs,
Connie
Posted 4/26/2013 12:26 AM (GMT 0)
        i have been undetectable for 15 months.  can i still spread the virus.

                          barry

Posted 4/26/2013 1:37 AM (GMT 0)
Barry or worse yet.. can you get it back form him or a different strain... hmmm I'm sure someone will answer.. and so sorry to hear the news..

Sandia
Posted 4/26/2013 6:01 AM (GMT 0)
Barry could get a different strain. But if he has had a SVR for 15 mos., I would think that he is no longer active. The question would be, what about the months prior to being undetectable? Or his friend may have contracted it from a different source.

Hugs,
Connie
Posted 4/26/2013 6:30 AM (GMT 0)
So sorry to hear that, Barry. Like Connie said though, it is possible that your friend contracted it from another source. A while back, the CDC began recommending that all 'baby boomers' (those born between 1946-1964) get tested for HepC. Their latest estimates are that 1 in 30 of that age group has been infected and are not aware of it! Please let us know what the follow-up testing shows.
Posted 4/26/2013 12:35 PM (GMT 0)
Barry, something about this doesn't seem right. I have been with Mike since 1980 as an intimate partner...and have never tested positive for Hep C (and I get tested every few years). When he found out he had Hep C, my PCP said he should use condoms....though by then we had been together 10 years. We did not. We WERE careful with personal grooming items.....tooth brushes, etc. Where blood could be transferred. I have gloves here if I have to tend to a cut or wound. I even glove to clean up waste. And for a while there he was pretty bad about getting to the toilet in time. Still...no Hep C.

I would think your friend may have been separately infected. But I am not there....maybe you cut yourselves with pen knives and became "blood brothers" like we did when we were kids. (Did I live in a weird neighborhood, or do kids do that?)

Best to both of you. I figure if, at this point (68 years old)...if I lived long enough to be in ESLD I would be 98 or 108 years old...so what's the worry.
Posted 4/26/2013 1:31 PM (GMT 0)
Wow, 'blood brothers' - does THAT bring back memories! If your neighborhood was weird, then so was mine! My best friend and I did the blood brothers thing (well, blood sisters) - it looked like a crime scene in her kitchen because neither of us could get our fingers to stop bleeding. Her mom freaked out when she got home from work and noticed a pile of bloody tissues in the garbage can. smhair Guess we cut a bit too deep - you can still see my scar, 30+ years later!
Posted 4/26/2013 10:46 PM (GMT 0)
           well!!  good news and some not so good news.  the pcr came back NOT DETECTED.  it was just an exposure and his immune system kicked it out.  his glucose was prediabetic and he is overweight.  his ultrasound showed inflamation, swelling and fatty liver.   sound like possible nash?

             "WHEW"      barry

Posted 4/26/2013 10:50 PM (GMT 0)
whew is right!!!

Sandia
Posted 4/26/2013 10:59 PM (GMT 0)
Gosh if everyone who was overweight and had a couple of glasses of wine in their heyday had Nash, I'd be in big trouble here!!!
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