From Pakistan....Tell me how much more time will be to get rid of Hepatitis-B

[abbas1434]

Respected Doctors,
I am Ghulam abbas 26year, male, from Pakistan.......I was given time of 6-months to get rid of Hepatitis-B inorder to avail PhD scholarship in Agriculture for China.....Now, about 5-months have passed and my Hepatitis-B status is as follow......


TESTS

Status in Early July.2007      
      
1.HBsAg        2.00(cut-off value) /198(Patient value)   Reactive
2.HBeAg         ...........                                             Non-reactive
3.ALT              29                                                    Normal
4.PCR             500                                                  Low virus load

Status in early December.2007  

1.HBsAg       0.265(cut-off value) /1.364(Patient value) Reactive
2.HBeAg       Not-checked but it will bw non-reactive    Non-reactive
3.ALT           24                                                        Normal
4.PCR          not-checked but it will be low                  Low virus load
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[jafferyjee]

AoA,

From where you are getting herbal treatment? Can I have the details please, I too live in Pakistan, Lahore.

Thanks,
Jaffery

[Hepatitis Researcher]

Typically time will tell if you are acute or chronic - if not HbSAg neg after one year  -chronic HBV. If you test the anti Hbcore IG-M subtype antibody, it will normally only be positive while acute or in a flare status. Total IgG anti-core AB will be always pos. Since you are surface antigen positive at least since April 2007, chances are that you are chronic.

[abbas1434]

Thanks.......... What should i do in-order to know whether i have acute or chronic infection? I mean, which further test is needed?...........

Ghulam Abbas

[Hepatitis Researcher]

It is not clear from your info if you are acute or chronic. Acute HBV disease: patients will  clear surface antigen/seroconvert  in 90-95%.

[abbas1434]

Thankyou for your reply,
Daer hepatitisresearcher,
whether it is possible that after getting medicine for one months more, my HBsAg level will reach less than cut-off value and also my blood indicate negative for hepatitis B......I am taking Herbal Medicines for the last 6-months.........
I think after medicine, my above status HBsAg "reactive" will likely become "non-raective" because HBsAg status is decreasing.............In April, the Gap between Patient value and cut-off value of HBsAg was 99 times of cutoff value(198/2.00) and this gap between Patient value and Cut-off value is decreased to 5.14 times(1.364/.265) of cut-off value in december and in this way about 90% recovery from HBsAg s upto december........
Kindly comment whether i am thinking right or not......
In this way, i hope to recover in a month...........

Thanks
Ghulam Abbas

[GrandmaA]

Most of us are not doctors here, we are mostly lay people, except for the hepatitis researcher. Most of the people on the forum have hepatitis C and we know nothing about hepatitis B.

[Hepatitis Researcher]

How do you define getting rid of hepatitis B? Your above status HBsAg "reactive" will likely stay reactive for the rest of your life.