HBV HCV coinfection

[Ita35]

Hello, i was wondering if anyone here has coinfection and what are you doing about it?

[stef2011]

no you need an expert doctors, guidelines are for doctors who can t make personalized treatments

hbsag>250iu/ml, the lab made a fraud they did not make quantitative, if you paid for it you should ask them to retest properly.they probably have obsolete kit which requires manual dilution for quantitative but this is no excuse they must dilute to make quantitative or use the kits for quantitative which are available many years

if hbsag is low peginterferon is the best choice to cure hbv too

[Ita35]

I can see that you know pretty much about hbv, may i ask,is it really curable stef? is there good percentage of cure?

[stef2011]

so once liver is cleared of hcv it is best to block reinfection by hbv, hbv antivirals cannot block reinfection 100% but they should be able to keep it lower

what is your hbsag level?

[Ita35]

thank you Stef for your asking, and sorry for late answer - was feeling down past days.
My results say HBsAg >250.00, though it was summer of 2008, all the next results just say >100. As i said, HBV DNA is always negative. I read about entecavir lately, but i'm F0 so far, and the use of antivirals for HBV requires F2+, am i correct?

[stef2011]

just browse the community and you ll see the members who cured, use search

[Ita35]

Thank you for everything, in 10 days im going to have my 1st blood check, i will ask for hbsag quantity.

[stef2011]

if you dont have cirrhosis you dont need antioxidants like on hepatitis technologies.while you are curing hcv you probably need maximum inflammation/immune response once hcv is cured antioxidants and vit d3 will help with the repair process

as to hbv i think the best strategy was to use peg to cure it first, at this point you should use tenofovir to block spread of infection when hcv infected cells are cleared

it all works this way every cells cannot be infected by 2 viruses but only one virus and it looks like hcv can infect better than hbv.hcv carriers have lower hbsag and sometimes lower hbvdna too

[stef2011]

todd from hepatitis technologies has hbv+hcv and had end stage cirrhosis, he just took heptech antioxidants and regressed to a perfect healthy liver without treating infections

anyway hcv is 100% curable and hcv suppresses hbv too so it is best to treat hbv by peginterferon first and then cure hcv

i hope you have both infections and need info and not just making stupid random questions wasting our time

[Ita35]

thank you stef, im on my 1st week of hcv treatment, this is my 1st try, ive read about supression, i believe thats why my hbv-dna is always undetect., but cannt be sure for 100%, so i started (fingers crossed) with this new treatment. How can i find him please?

[Liverpatient]

Hi Ita35, just remember there is also a very active community of Hepatitis C in this website; am sure you will get plenty of useful information from that forum as well. You are, at least, guaranteed your hbc infection will be cured with the new treatments available now.

[Ita35]

Hi & thank you, i was not sure wich community to join first lol, i decided to start with HBV, cause im already on HCV treatment and i need to know what can i do with HBV & are there other people with that coinfection & what they do/think. You mean hcv new treatment?

[Liverpatient]

Hi, yes I meant hcv, saw it now. Good luck with your treatments:))

[Ita35]

Thank you <3