Well I just wanted to make sure I didn't get infected with it during the episode I described, I thought hbsag would give me the answer.
Would you consider wise getting tested in a week or two?
yes it is rare not to respond at second shot, vaccine total non responders are only about 5%
you don thave to check for the surface antigen hbsag, it is totally useless, you have to check only immunity antibody hbsab, that's the only thing that matters for your situation
if you have a chance get hav vaccine too in the future, it never gets cronic but lately it is becoming a sex infection disease in italy since hbv is blocked totally by mandatory vaccine, i don t know US situation but it doesn tbother to be vaccineted for hav too
Yes, it was all negative last december, that was the last time I got checked for everything (STDs, cholesterol, u name it).
I took the first HBV vaccine shot September 21st and the second one in october (one month later).
Would you consider wise getting tested in a week or two?
Is there any chance the recent vaccination could trigger some hbsag response? I don't wanna risk getting a false positive because I know I will panic.
if were negative just check for hbsab, ater 4 weeks it might be pos already and you are protected
If my liver was causing my symptoms I would expect alcohol to make things worse, not better....
never be fooled by the liver, it is just like digital signals you see it perfect or you don t see at all, the liver is the same...it is the most important organ of our body in the moment it dosn t work you are close to dye.
i was fooled too about alcool in the past because i could never get complitely drunk whatever vodka whatever the number of vodka bottles.when liver is attacked it has cells dying all the time and new cells generated all the time, so actually a liver with active hbv might perform even better.....only when you are at end stage and close to dye you might feel the difference
but i am sure you have nothing at all, it could have been a thousand things but it was a weak one and it will resolve itself anyway
Hi, thanks for your responses.
I know I didnt carry hbv before because I get tested every year for all STDs if I had sex that year. I'm obviously going to get tested again but I'm waiting a little because I know some tests like HIV wont show up if its too soon. My plan was to wait 90 days but I guess I could get tested at 60 days which is only a week away, I could ask for all STDs and the complete hbv markers...
I'm feeling more calm today for several reasons, first of all I feel better. Second of all yesterday was my best friend's BD and I drank some wine and I was able to relax and laugh and today I feel fantastic. If my liver was causing my symptoms I would expect alcohol to make things worse, not better. I'm trying to stay positive and be realistic.... its just hard sometimes at night, I get really scared even though my fear is probably unfounded.
to have a very clear picture you might check all hbv markers so you will know if it is vaccine, previous cleared infection or if you already had cronic hbv before vaccine without any doubt
you can t rely on synthoms since 99% time hepatitis have no synthoms and even if you have there are so many hepatitis viruses that the only way to understand which one is causing liver damage is blood test.
unfortunately there are websites reporting synthoms for hbv which are synthoms so general that it can be anything.....the only synthoms related to liver mulfunction which 99% doesn t happen with hbv, are bilirubin elevation that makes yellow skin and eyes/dark unrine, in this case you know it is some disease or virus in the liver but again it is not hbv can be many.
so in the end only a blood test of the most known heptitis virus hbv-hcv-hav can help, apart from these ones there are many hepatitis viruses as the alphabet and also herpes, mononucleosis, mcv attack the liver.
as regards your fear of a false positive you should test both hbsag antigen and hbsab antibody but how do you know you didn t carry hbv before making vaccine if you didn t check?most of infections are aquired at birth, did your monther check for hbv before delivery?