No, I am not on any medication.
Started the supplement Vit D 5000 IU per day(a month back) after it came very low at 12.
Where you on medication? 3.4iu/ml it is like nothing like you almost cleared the virus. Hope you will get some useful information from our experts here in this form. Wish you a good luck!
I am visiting India and just got my qHbsAg test done as well as part of the visit.
It came very low at 3.44 IU/mL
Can the body naturally get rid of the virus, since the number is so low ? Any recommendations in light of this new finding ?
I will also try to get an opinion from indian doctor while I am here and maybe get the test done from a different lab, just to be sure(since this test is not available in US).
thanks
Thanks for the explanation stef, I will try to reduce my dairy intake.
Regarding "vit k2 mk7 200mcg daily, magnesium chelate 400mg daily" , how to they help ?
these are vit d cofactors, if they are deficient vit d works badly
Also, on dairy, I take organic non fat milk, is that also a problem ?
as a healthy point of view it is a bad food, no mammal is genetically designed to drink milk all life and from other animals.milk has many grow factors that promote cancer
in your case it is not strictly needed but if you do less milk will turn in less calcium, and calcium is not needed at all when you have norml vit d levels because you will absorb it from all foods and milk has too much calcium
also being vegetarian is not very healthy if you have access to "grass feed animals" (clean grass i mean, fresh, no pesticides and so on).but if being vegetarian is a choice because you dont want to eat animals it is ok but hard to balance all nutrients
Thanks for the response Stef.
I will talk to my doc regarding Vit D Shot.
Regarding "vit k2 mk7 200mcg daily, magnesium chelate 400mg daily" , how to they help ?
Also, on dairy, I take organic non fat milk, is that also a problem ? I really want to know the reason since I am a vegetarian and milk does make significant part of my diet.
thanks
Yep, I made vit D 25-OH total test 2 times.
they re available anywhere, even online by a spill of dry blood but actually not so important because we are 99,9% deficient and 100% less than 60ng/ml without supplements
it is useless to check d2 and d3, just total 25ohd is ok
is there any sense to make those tests:
Vitamin D, 25-OH, D2 < 4ng/mL
Vitamin D, 25-OH D3 12ng/mL
?
I'm not sure if they are even available in my country
you are very severely deficient, this rise to max risk of death on any human being when getting a disease
5000iu is nothing you can t go on this low, italian guidelines indicate a loading dose of 350.000-1.000.000iu once and then about 2000iu daily as maintenance on healthy subjects, probably 5000iu would be the minimum as maintenance
i d go with at least 350.000iu once and then 10.000iu daily with vit k2 mk7 200mcg daily, magnesium chelate 400mg daily, then retest by 1 month
if you go with 10.000iu daily it may take many many months
cut all dairies from your diet and increase water to 2l daily
Just got my Vit D/Calcium/PTH test done, and seems I am deficient on Vit D.
Here are numbers :
Vitamin D, 25-OH, Total :12ng/mL
Vitamin D, 25-OH, D2 < 4ng/mL
Vitamin D, 25-OH D3 12ng/mL
Intact PTH : 33 pg/mL
Calcium 9.4 mg/dL
I am thinking I need to go on vit D supplement. Thinking of 5000 IU daily, which is available OTC in US.
Is that ok ?
When should I do the test again ?
thanks a lot.
i mean hbv activity is very low
it is just a matter of food quality and supplements to clear fatty liver but most people can t eat those type of foods
start with everything with sugar is poison, zero sugar in your diet then add everything you see in my post
fatty liver is not always correlated to overweight.for italian type of looks bmi 25-26 can be already overweight and i was that bmi, by the diet i moved to bmi 21-22 (around 22 is ideal for health and look).
also hdl must be high to stay away from fatty liver and ldl possibly very low.there are bio statins to lower ldl and in my post you ll find supplements for hdl too, i remember i was low on hdl and i moved it up
I have low HDL at 33mg/dL.
Total Chol is normal though at 157 mg/dL
Here are relevant numbers :
LDL 101 mg/dL
HDL 33mg/dL
Chol 157 mg/dL
Trig 115mg/dL
150 lbs is very slim and not fat. Im 167 lbs 5'8 and my bmi is 25. So nofat in my case. You might have signs of fibrosis due to hbv but probably mild.
Thanks for your comment Stephen,
I found a study where it says
"Indeed, it is the combination of serum HBsAg and HBV DNA levels that shows most promise as a single-point measurement for differentiating active CHB versus inactive carriers. A single-point measurement of serum HBsAg (cut-off <1000 IU/mL) and HBV DNA (cut-off ≤2000 IU/mL) in the abovementioned Italian population achieved even better discriminatory power between these two stages of chronic HBV infection (94% diagnostic accuracy, 91% sensitivity, 95% specificity, 88% PPV, 97% NPV)"
Link : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20451520
I will have my qHBsAg done in July and will know.
Thanks Stef.
What do you mean by "very low" when you say
"hbv has nothing to do with your fatty liver because very low, food quality is the most probable reason and low vit d..."
Is the fattiness in liver is very low ? How do we know ?
Also, whenever you get a chance, if you could take a look at other questions I have, and if you have any thoughts on them.
I see my reply has been mangled by the use of angle brackets, sigh.
Inactive or immune control phase patients are characterized by HBeAg negative, very low or undetectable hbvdna (less than 2,000 iu/ml) and persistently normal ALT. Many patients will stay in this phase for a very long time and some may even lose their HbsAg as they get older. However, for some, they will transition to the next phase - Immune Escape Phase - aka, chronic HbeAg negative Hepatitis B. In this phase, both hbvdna and ALT will be elevated and fluctuate ( 2 x ULN and hbvdna > 20,000 iu/ml. Obviously a lot of patients would like to know their chances for staying in the inactive phase for ever - this is where qHBsAg is being used to predict the risks. It has been shown that a qHbsAg < 100 iu/ml may indicate a very high chance of losing HBsAg naturally in the next few years.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Hepatitis-B/update-on-my-fatty-liver/show/1500346
try to copy what i did, diet and supplements must be a religion for you for 6 to 12 months,
food must be fresh organic (not processed or with chemicals in it), and all supplements natural of the highest quality (not synthetic)
hbv has nothing to do with your fatty liver because very low, food quality is the most probable reason and low vit d
I don't know the answers to all your questions, so I will just make a few comments, others will give you theirs.
Fibroscan is usually the medium of 10 successful readings, so I am not sure about this "average of 3 readings". You don't seem to be over-weight, so I am not sure whether a special probe for obese patients is needed in your case.
Inactive or immune control phase patients are characterized by HBeAg negative, very low or undetectable hbvdna ( 2 x ULN and hbvdna > 20,000 iu/ml. Obviously a lot of patients would like to know their chances for staying in the inactive phase for ever - this is where qHBsAg is being used to predict the risks. It has been shown that a qHbsAg < 100 iu/ml may indicate a very high chance of losing HBsAg naturally in the next few years.