After treatment

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29 November 2015 at 7:36 pm #4832
spook77
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After treatment will I still test positive for hepc even though I have no VL? Was thinking about getting some life insurance and I’m pretty sure they do blood work. And I’m sure if I test positive I won’t be able to get it or the rate will be crazy.
30 November 2015 at 12:30 am #4840
Chester
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Hmmm….not sure. I do know:

– we get taken off the notifiable diseases list
– we still can’t donate blood or organs I think because we still have antibodies
– you can sign up to body bequest programmes whether you’re hep c + or not (technically you can’t if you’re positive but they don’t actually care). Saves on funerals! I’m gonna end up in a big vat of formaldehyde at the University of Tasmania.
30 November 2015 at 12:42 am #4841
Dr James
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Yes, you will still test positive for some years, however you could insist it is a false positive and ask for a viral load…

See the GP Cheat Sheet http://fixhepc.com/forum/forum-gp-cheat-sheet.html

Hep C Ab Levels

Hep C Ab levels fall over time but patients who have been cured will continue to test positive for Hep C for years.

Sustained virological response is associated with clearance of hepatitis C virus RNA and a decrease in hepatitis C virus antibody.

YMMV
30 November 2015 at 12:47 am #4842
berrinice
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Same here Chester and so are my friends. Our great contribution to mankind. As long as the body isn’t sold onto commercial interests.
30 November 2015 at 4:07 am #4847
CJ
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I would so like to be an organ donor, I don’t understand why we can’t if we’ve cleared the virus.
What’s wrong with having anti bodies? they can’t cause HCV, can they?
I don’t understand.
x

J the young dragon slayer is:
HepC 1a since birth
Male aged 15
VL 2000000
Started Twinvir/ 10-11-15-then Sof/led.
NO sides so far !
after one week VL : 37
after 4 wks VL : UND !
EOT 2/2/16 UND.!
4 wks. post tx results….pending….
7/3/16 VL result : 4 week post tx: SVR !
12 weeks SVR !
24 wks SVR yeeaa!!
30 November 2015 at 8:03 am #4856
BB
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CJ wrote:

I would so like to be an organ donor, I don’t understand why we can’t if we’ve cleared the virus.
What’s wrong with having anti bodies? they can’t cause HCV, can they?
I don’t understand.
x

While the antibodies can’t cause HCV, there is no 100% guarantee that you are free of the virus even if you are SVR for a long period. If someone did get infected after accepting tissue from a cured HCV patient, they could conceivably sue on this basis. Even if they had contracted the disease some other way, there would be doubt about that tissue.

What you consider to be “cleared” is probably very different from a medico-legal perspective.

As a result, it is likely simpler to forbid anyone carrying the antibodies from donating any tissue at all.
30 November 2015 at 10:10 am #4865
Joy
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Chester wrote:

– you can sign up to body bequest programmes whether you’re hep c + or not (technically you can’t if you’re positive but they don’t actually care). Saves on funerals! I’m gonna end up in a big vat of formaldehyde at the University of Tasmania.

Good to hear they don’t really care Chester – I am signed up at a Gold Coast uni. Thought it a bit premature to disclose HCV as I was hoping for a cure (& got it!) but they made it clear they don’t accept positive peeps. Might just slide into that vat undetected.
30 November 2015 at 11:51 am #4876
CJ
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Thanks BB, didn’t realise that.
x

J the young dragon slayer is:
HepC 1a since birth
Male aged 15
VL 2000000
Started Twinvir/ 10-11-15-then Sof/led.
NO sides so far !
after one week VL : 37
after 4 wks VL : UND !
EOT 2/2/16 UND.!
4 wks. post tx results….pending….
7/3/16 VL result : 4 week post tx: SVR !
12 weeks SVR !
24 wks SVR yeeaa!!
7 December 2015 at 7:38 am #5368
Bloot
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spook77 wrote:

After treatment will I still test positive for hepc even though I have no VL? Was thinking about getting some life insurance and I’m pretty sure they do blood work. And I’m sure if I test positive I won’t be able to get it or the rate will be crazy.

Apart from the no questions asked default life insurance on my super, I’m insured with Virgin Life
You need to be with them for 7 years before they will pay out a hep c related death
So get in while your healthy lol – no other insurer would touch me

I’m 52 next week insured for $231,000 and my premium is $89 per month

As I remember though, all insurers only asked if I was HIV or Hepc pos
But I would check though because they will find any way possible to wriggle out of paying a claim

52 y.o. G3a for about 30 years
Previous tx 2004 interferon/ ribavarin
2004: ALT 624 AST 263

Pre tx test 23/10/15: ALT 153 AST 128 VL 11 849 493
6/11/15: Sof/ dac started
26/11/15: ALT 41 AST 41
7/12/15: ALT 36 AST 30 Virus undetected

2004 biopsy F3
Fibroscan appt Jan 11 2016.
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