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Please help me I'm lost!!!

Hey all...
I had unprotected sex in 28/12/2015 and in 6/2/2016 i discovered I'm hiv positive.
My dr ran stds tests and one of them was for hepatitis B.
He made hepatitis B sAg qualitative test which came back negative.
Then in 16/2/2016 i took truvada plus sustiva as treatment for hiv.
Now when I searched for hepatitis B testing i found that it involves many tests.
This month i made acomplete hepatitis B panel test which came back as follows:
Hepatitis B sAg qualitative negative
Hepatitis B sAg quantitative less than 20(reference Range negative if less than 20)
Anti hbc iGM negative (reference range negative)
Anti hbc iGG negative (reference range negative)
Hepatitis B e antigen negative (reference range negative)
Anti hepatitis B e AB negative (reference range negative)
Anti hbs less than 3.1miu/ml(reference range 0-9.9)!!!!!
What is concerning me alot is 3.1?
Where did this percent came from if I'm negative?
Also we don't have here in my country the very sensitive test of hbsag quantitative which measure from 0.05_250iu/ml
Also it seems that all test i have done to be qualitative tests because no numbers were written beside reference range as i see here with your results.
The main problem also is i took truvada as apart of my hiv treatment so if i decided to make hepatitis B pcr quantitative test maybe it becomes undetectable because of the seven months of truvada(i knew that truvada treat hepatitis B virus)
What can I do to know if I'm infected or not?
Is there any test i can do to know?
Please help me I'm hopeless because of anti hbs antibody of 3.1
I didn't take any vaccine... From where did this result come from?
Thanks alot
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If you really want to know if you had hepatitis b in the past check for hbcAb total. Did you took your vaccine as i told you? Important is that now you don t have vhb.
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Is it normal to have hepatitis B surface antibodies even if I'm not vaccinated?
I measured it again and found it to be 5 miu/ml!!!
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I made hepatitis B sAg quantitative titer which came back 0.2 normal range (0_2) but no unit indicated iu/ml
So i think it's not the quantitative test it's only atiter test...am i infected?
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I see many members here whose hepatitis B sAg less than 20 and positive.... Our country has no more sensitive mehtod which detect less than 20...also I'm concerned about anti hbs which is 3.1!!!
Where did this value come from?
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Thank you Nmarius for your comment but am i infected or not?
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According to your results posted:

"Hepatitis B sAg qualitative negative
Hepatitis B sAg quantitative less than 20(reference Range negative if less than 20)"

you are NOT infected.
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Why no one answers me?
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Hi!
You should take vaccine against hbv asap for your protection, because you don't have enough protection now. Result should be more than 10 ui/ml(hbsAb).
good luck!
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