SVR (Do i Tell or Not)

[Rockerforlife]

Heres a good one...if we do get SVR....should we tell new lovers that we did have the virus but are now cured...im thinkn    there is no point...i guess i just answered my own question...again

[Rockerforlife]

I like the occult explanation in the above ..Feb 24, 2009 08:33PM

that says it all in a nutshell...


  

[jmjm530]

sorry I read the sentence wrong. there is no typo. he's clearly saying that the virus is not very transmissible even in the 50 million range and in his opinion neglible after SVR. I would add that my doc would use the word "impossible" instead of neglible  or whatever medically is close to that.

[jmjm530]

I left the thread uncorrected, but it appears from the context of the sentence that there is a typo in line 2. As I see it, it should read "not very transmissible" and not "very transmissible"


: Trihep
"    - What are the possibilities of occult SVR's being able to transmit the virus?

(Hepatitis Researcher)

Most likely negligible, since not even full blown VLs with fit virus in the 5o Million/ml range are very transmissible in the sexual context.


"- And if the majority of occult infection is made of 'unfit' viral remnants, how might the immune system of an uninfected individual who became exposed (via transfusion, IV drug use, needle stick, etc) respond? Would you expect their immune system to 'trap' and treat it in the same way - creating a low level 'balance' with a chronic infection remaining? Or might a healthy immune system be able to fully 'knock back' the occult infection to the point where negative strand replication no longer takes place? "

Such an infection will probably not take hold to any degree that matters. It has become a "non-pathogenic' virus, a lame and tame dog out of a Wolfe....

Questions like that will also have a very low chance of being investigated, since they are very difficult to examine and have a clinical impact too low to matter in a world filled with more obvious diseases and dilemmas.
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[Rockerforlife]

Maybe us heppers are just going to have mingle with our own kind?...that would solve the delimma of 'do i tell"....thie disease is just not a physical killer....its psycological too...it plays on emotions and moral issues...hep C IS evil

[dointime]

"even per HR's recent comments on implausibility of HCV transmission sexually by an SVR which would be categorized as an impossiblity by other medical experts. (see tnhepguy's recent thread)"

I don't suppose you have a link to tnhepguy's thread?

I don't think this subject deserves the derision it is getting,  I'm not SVR but if and when I get there I will be concerned to know if there's any possibility of my still being infectious to somebody else.  I suppose I mean more if my blood will be safe.  Do we really know  for 100% sure that after SRV we are not infectious in any way?  Have there been any studies on this?  Because if we're not sure then we've got to maintain the same vigilance with blood spills, etc. for life whether or not we tell.  And I think we do have to tell if we could be putting somebody in harm's way, even if the possibility is remote.  

Dointime  

[desrt]

Don't forget to tell them you might have 'occult chicken pox' too.