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.

[James10500]

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2010/05/19/2010-05-19_hepatitis_c_can_lie_low_for_years_until_it_wreaks_havoc_with_your_liver.html

Another article

[James10500]

No I really never thought to get one or look for one.  I just trusted what Dr. Everson author of " Living with Hepatitis C " has told me. I think the correct term is in-active.  I'll look for a study.

It's not my business to tell anyone how they got Hep C.  I just have never heard of a confirmed case of a nail clipper.  Maybe that's naive.

[James10500]

http://www.floridavets.org/information/hepatitisc.asp

Check the 4th paragraph.  My doctor is one of the more respected Hep C docs in the country he has told me that it can have a dormancy phase.

I guess we all can believe what ever makes us feel comfortable.  

[James10500]

Do you mean can lie dormant ?

http://www.healthjournalism.org/blog/2010/01/hep-c-emerges-from-dormancy-to-hit-baby-boomers/

[R Glass]

Who knows, maybe I got from Nail Clippers. To be Honest, I am not sure how I got it. Blaming it on my IV Drug use over 30+ years ago is to convienant. I put my liver through pure hell for the last 30+ years, mostly drinking everyday. I was F1. We all know HCV does not lay dormant so, I don’t but into my Super Liver was able to fight off HCV and all that Alcahol (among other things) for over 30 years and come out almost unscathed.

[James10500]

I've got to wonder about all those possible routes of transmission.  I've never heard of a person getting hep c any of those ways.  They say it but where are all the people that got Hep C via nail clippers ?  I obviously don't know this as fact, but if it is, where are these people.