Viral count

[skifunatic]

I just found out that my Hepc is Genotype 1 and that my Viral count is 1100. Is that a high or a low viral count?

[zazza]

Extremely low. Do you have an acute case of hep C - i e did you catch the disease recently? Acutes have a much higher rate of success with treatment.

[skifunatic]

I found out that I had hepc 7 years ago, but I may have had it since I had hepb which was in the 1970's. What do you mean by "Acutes" when you say that they have a much higher rate of success?

[gauf]

1100?!?   If that is correct then that is the lowest I have ever heard of!

[zazza]

If you find out you have hep C in the acute stage (the first 6 months I believe) and start treating it within this time period, the odds for a successful treatment are much higher than if it has become chronic hep C. You have had it for at least 7 years, which means it is chronic (not acute).

A viral load under 400'000 IU/ml also means a higher rate of successful treatment - 70% compared to 50% for all genotype 1's. The main reason for this is that a lot of patients with low viral load achieve undetectable status by week 4 of treatment.

Here is a link to read about low viral load:
http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/2006icr/aasld/docs/103106_d.html

In Europe it is becoming more and more common to treat genotype 1's with a low viral load who become UND by week 4 for only 24 weeks. These patients have a 90% success rate.

[zazza]

Yep, I got hep B and hep C in the early 80's. My body got rid of the hep B virus, but hep C became chronic.

[billstrong1969]

Mine viral load was 10,000,000 million so that is awfully low.  Are you sure of that number?  I would double check, but if it's correct then that's a good thing!

billstrong1969

[skifunatic]

I am sure, my count is 1100. I'm really glad it's so low. I still don't know if I'm going to go through the treatment, so many side effects.

[nygirl7]

Here is a great website that will help you with questions that you might have...it helped me so much when I first found out I had the disease (I don't any longer).  This place helped the most of all!

Have you had a biopsy done?  That along with your liver enzymes level will give you a good picture if you 'need' to treat now or not.  If you are low stage and have time to wait that is a personal decision.

PS Viral loads go up and down and all over the place all the time until you treat but I've never seen that low a number either!

Good luck,
Debby

http://janis7hepc.com/

[GreenButterfly906]

actually, the lowest is under 15, which means an acute infection, too low to test for RNA/DNA, geno/phenotypes! and the body has cured itself! So I guess that is one in a million! I am not too sure of your count, as everyone says it is low, you have agood chance of fighting this battle. Good luck to you and god bless!

[GreenButterfly906]

agreed???????

[MagTX]

I don't think skifunatic will be around to be able to agree, this post was from 2008.