Has anyone gotten Hep c from sex?

[yoyoma123]

I've heard is can be transmitted by sex. But here in medhelp everybody that is married an has 30 years married their partner doesn't get it. Can that data be wrong cause I haven't spoken to one person here that has gotten it through sex.

Has anyone gotten it through sex, please reply.

[Diane12855]

Just one last comment about the clippers. I have often used clippers to cut off hang nails and torn cuticles. In order to keep them from catching on my clothes, I had to cut them very close and there have been times I drew blood. Before I knew I was infected, my kids would often ask to use the clippers after seeing me use them, just because it reminded them that they had a bothersome area too.

BTW... none of my kids have Hep C... but I caught mine from my ex in the 80s when he had an acute case and at the time they actually thought he got his from bad water and that I couldn't catch it... they called it Non A Non B back then.

Diane

[Willy50]

I think part of the issue is that you are interpreting it to be clinically in dormancy where I believe the term is used more metaphorically in the articles you provide
I can understand where you can interpret it as such.

The headline about HCV coming out of dormancy is metaphorical, not clinical.  The writer means that large numbers of people are starting to emerge with damage the result one presumes is the result of decades of active infection........ not of a virus, like a cicada that wakes up after sleeping for 18 years.  : )

Here is what the floridavets site wrote;
"Veterans, especially Viet Nam veterans, have higher instances of infection. Hepatitis C can lay dormant for many years, and not display any symptoms for as long as twenty to thirty years or more. Symptoms, when they do occur, are vague, flu like symptoms that are not usually specific to hepatitis. Veterans who received blood transfusions or who worked around blood seem to be at greatest risk.
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I couldn't tell who wrote that or what year it was written, but if you scan the pages of this bulletin board you will find many threads on the effects of HCV on many parts of the body, not just the liver.  This stuff is fairly new information.

Once again, I believe that the paragraph describes or dummies down the concept for the masses and is not talking about clinically dormant HCV.  

IF there is clinical information about HCV dormancy one doesn't not find much at hivandhepatitis.com.  I've not seen much discussion about it or papers on it.  If it exists perhaps you can post a few links, studies or articles.  You are wise in not accepting everything that one reads on a bulletin board.

best,
Willy

[James10500]

What don't you understand about the words " I wonder " , " I don't know this to be fact "' and" maybe I'm being naive"?

I'm not talking about a pedicure.  I'm talking about a nail clipper, as in cutting your nails.  I've never seen blood on a nail clipper in my life.  I find the scenario of handing a bloody nail clipper to your family member for them to use highly unlikely.

It was suggested to me that the CDC lists "nail clippers" on there site and how the CDC "tends to get these things right" and that I should "go read it". well I DID and it doesn't say anything about nail clippers.

It was simply my opinion, that I admitted may be wrong.  But from now on I'll defer to the self proclaimed Hepatologists. Funny a Doctor that has published 300 + papers on liver disease tells me it can lie dormant someone on the Internet who had Hep C tells me it can't hmmm.  

Posting your opinion thousands of times on the Internet does not equate to a medical degree.

[Andiamo1]

The statistics point to 30% of infections from unknown sources.  The known sources are IV drug use, blood transfusions, dialysis, sharing cocaine implements such as dollar bills...

People guess at other methods of transmission.  People that live in households that have an infected member have a higher rate of infection than people that don't.  Spouses have a higher rate of infection than other house members.

Those statistics imply correlation not causation, so there are interpretations, but not conclusive proof.

[GSDgirl]

As far as sex goes, I have been with my husband for 24 years and I had IT and he didn't.  We also shared toothbrushes, nail clippers (I can't imagine cutting any of my nails short enough to make them bleed tho that hurts like heII), razors, and whatever else a couple uses over a 21 year period.  I didn't even know I had IT until 3 years ago.  

Just my input.

Denise

[nygirl7]

It doesn't mention nail clippers.  Maybe you should have read what they actually do say. "

Yeah you think if you can get it from a toothbrush that nail clippers are not possible?  And in a manicure they don't only use clippers they also use little sticks to push away the cuticle - all sorts of things. When I had hepc I did not let my family use my nail clippers - seems to me that while not the most efficient means surely would be possible if I cut myself and then they cut one of themselves.