ask them for abbott architect hbsag quant or roches hbsag quant, if they dont have these machines ask them to send to a lab that can do it
i had my tests since 2008 in New World Laboratory in Taft in front of PGH and my Infectious disease specialist is from Manila Doctors
these are routine tests available since 2005, they are getting available everywhere in italy since guidelines indicate to monitor both hbvdna and hbsag
you can have it in vietnam and china in your area
I just want to ask, what hospital conduct the series of test.I'm a filipino also and i want to have the same test that you have.
Thank you
you need both hbsag quantitative in iu/ml and hbvdna pcr before making any therapy, vietnam, china, india, japan, korea all have these tests if you can ship blood samples there maybe you can start a try of those therapies
making those therapies without hbsag quant might be a waste of a lot of money since you need years of them
to make hbsag negative you might try 2 or more years of interferon+tenofovir+alinia or interferon+entecavir+alinia
but the philippines doesnt have the blood tests to monitor if hbsag decreases and to see if baseline levels are low enough to have chances on this treatment
those drugs are very expensive and unless your goverment pays for them like in europe you must have really a lot of money
another inexpensive way is trying generic alinia from india which is called nizonide500 for 2-3 years but again you need hbsag quantitative to see if drug works, so i dont see anyway out being in the philippines
thank you very much stef2011 .... but is there any possible way that i can lower the values of my hbsag so that it will fall under non-reactive...i really wanna work overseas and this condition always prevent me from doing so...
I am taking vit c and vit e daily....can u suggests what other vits i shold take and the dosage of such? this question might have been answered in some posts which i haven't read yet, i have just joined this group early today and i'm very thankful for it.
you have nothing, you are healthy, the virus is not active and makes no damage to the liver, just live and eat healthy