when was i infected

[Anila_ayub]

Hi I m HCV reactive, it was diagnosed one month back, but I don’t know when infection took place in me? is there any method to find out ?

[eureka254]

Love your analogy: "like being adopted and wanting to find your birthparents." :)
And, good advice there on life with HCV, as well as great wisdom on just life itself:
"Look to tomorrow, or you'll get stuck in all those yesterdays..."
Thanks for posting your response.

[Xenigma]

It's a question we all have-
kinda like being adopted and wanting to find your birthparents.

As said above, the most important thing is to get a good hepatologist, work with him/her and get rid of the virus.  Look to tomorrow, or you'll get stuck in all those yesterdays...
enigma

[copyman]

like the others said it is hard to pinpoint the time of exposure. the bottom line is it really does not matter. what matters is finding out what kind of shape your liver is in and moving forward with a plan to eradicate the virus. best of luck

[Jakied]

Don't dwell on the past.  You can't change it.  Look to the future and clearing the dragon from your system.

[Marcia2202]

It depends what your ris factors are. If you only have one risk factor, than it would be that.

If you have several risk factor, it could be any time between the last frist risk and the last.

I remember when I first got diagnosed, it really was a big deal for me to try to find out when I got it. Now after some time of looking at the most likely time I could have gotten it, I a stuck with 1983.

And welcome to the forum!

Marcia

[CockSparrow]

1984 would be my guess. No particular reason other than it was a good book and it was when my daughter was born.

Unless you have been involved with some high risk category IVDU blood transfusion
immunisation Tattoo etc then it will only ever be a guess. In fact even if you had any of the above it would still be a guess.

CS

[fretboard]

The only method is used for IVDU.  I can only tell you how my doctor determined my years of being infected.  This is only if you used IV.  It's a universal system, however I've heard it used the other way for a better accuracy.  What I mean is add a year to the amount of needle years.  God Bless

For this reason, many experts estimate the length of exposure to HCV in drug users by subtracting one year from the total number of lifetime years of needle use.

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/hcsp/articles/Sylvestre-1.html

[Mary4now]

I wish there were, but there isnt any to my knowledge.  You just have to look at your lifestyle.  Possibly dental work, any transfusions?   M