antibodies against hepatitis C, but no virus? How is this possible?
Cinnamon Girl said
Jan 4, 2013
Hi archallaa, 12Step Guy is correct in saying that you would test positive to having Hep C antibodies if you had been exposed to the virus at any time and you had spontaneously cleared it. On the other hand it is sometimes possible to receive a `false positive` result and I expect that`s why you need to have the test repeated.
If you do have Hep C you would have caught it by blood to blood contact with someone, you certainly would not have caught it from having oral sex and it`s highly unlikely that you would have caught it by having any sort of sex. Jill
12Step Guy said
Jan 4, 2013
I'm not a medical expert, but I know folks who were exposed to Hep C, their bodies fought it off and now are left with the antibodies , maybe others can comment?
archallaa said
Jan 4, 2013
Hello.
So, here is the history behind all of this. 4 weeks ago i was with a girl that i had sex with. I used condom during the vaginal sex but not during the oral sex (that she gave on me).
She has chronic hepatitis b with very low infectivity, but since im a little bit paranoid i decided to go and get vaccinated and tested against it.
At the hospital they tell me that from what i told them the risk for me to be infected is very, very small, but still i decided to get vaccinated and so i did. I also took some blood tests.
I took the blood test and went home again. about 2 weeks later i was back at the hospital and they showed me the results of the previous blood test.
I do not remember exactly what the test was called (but im sure someone here knows it) but the test showed me:
Hiv: negative) Hepa*** B antibodies: negative Hepatitis B virus: negative Hepatitis C antibodies: positive Hepatitis C virus: negative (Think this one was called HCV RNA)
The girl i was with has not in any form Hepa*** C, and i have never been in contact with any kind of drug abuse or anything like that in my life. The doctor tells me that we should do another blood test (which i will get the answers on in next week) and then he asks me a couple of questions.
From the answers i gave him on the questions he tells me it is extremely unlikely that i will get an answer on the next blood test saying i have hepatitis C at this very moment, and from what i told him and from how my history has been they also said that it's very unlikely that i even had hepatitis before in my life, which makes the hepatitis C antibodies: positive result to seem very strange.
Any ideas of what could be going on here?
it is very unlikely that my next test shows I suddenly also have the virus, so maybe I should not worry about, but how can it be that I have antibodies against hepatitis C if your test is correct, when it infects so very poorly through sex.
Hi archallaa, 12Step Guy is correct in saying that you would test positive to having Hep C antibodies if you had been exposed to the virus at any time and you had spontaneously cleared it. On the other hand it is sometimes possible to receive a `false positive` result and I expect that`s why you need to have the test repeated.
If you do have Hep C you would have caught it by blood to blood contact with someone, you certainly would not have caught it from having oral sex and it`s highly unlikely that you would have caught it by having any sort of sex. Jill
I'm not a medical expert, but I know folks who were exposed to Hep C, their bodies fought it off and now are left with the antibodies , maybe others can comment?
Hello.
So, here is the history behind all of this.
4 weeks ago i was with a girl that i had
sex with. I used condom during the vaginal sex
but not during the oral sex (that she gave on me).
She has chronic hepatitis b with very low infectivity,
but since im a little bit paranoid i decided to go and
get vaccinated and tested against it.
At the hospital they tell me that from what i told them
the risk for me to be infected is very, very small, but still
i decided to get vaccinated and so i did. I also took some blood tests.
I took the blood test and went home again. about 2 weeks later i was back at the hospital and they showed me the results of the previous blood test.
I do not remember exactly what the test was called (but im sure someone here knows it) but the test showed me:
Hiv: negative)
Hepa*** B antibodies: negative
Hepatitis B virus: negative
Hepatitis C antibodies: positive
Hepatitis C virus: negative (Think this one was called HCV RNA)
The girl i was with has not in any form Hepa*** C, and
i have never been in contact with any kind of drug abuse
or anything like that in my life. The doctor tells me that we
should do another blood test (which i will get the answers on in next week) and then he asks me a couple of questions.
From the answers i gave him on the questions he tells me
it is extremely unlikely that i will get an answer on the next blood test saying i have hepatitis C at this very moment, and from what i told him and from how my history has been they also said that it's very unlikely that i even had hepatitis before in my life, which makes the hepatitis C antibodies: positive result to seem very strange.
Any ideas of what could be going on here?
it is very unlikely that my next test shows
I suddenly also have the virus, so maybe I should not worry about,
but how can it be that I have antibodies against hepatitis C if your test is correct, when it infects so very poorly through sex.