About blood tests.

[Hellchild]

This is in relation to my last question. Last summer, doctors found a tumor in my back (a type of non-hodgkins B-cell lymphoma). I have went through the chemo treatments, and they tell me that the tumor is gone and I am currently in remission. But while I was recieving chemo, I had to have my blood tested before each treatment (which was every 3 weeks). So my question is this: If I had contracted Hep C, would they have noticed something wrong with my blood and known that I had it then, or is Hep C the type of thing they need to be speifically looking for to find? The reason I'm asking is because my last treatment was Dec. 20th and since then, not only have I not had sex with my girfriend very often (maybe 3 or 4 times because we split up for a couple weeks), but we haven't had anything but normal, vaginal sex since then. So I was  thinking that if they didn't notice anything unusual with my blood during the treatment, and was clean then, then I probably have a pretty good chance of being clean now. Would that be a false assumption?

Thanks for your time,
Hellchild

[beamishboy]

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[mikesimon]

I want to say that you are in my heart and I wish you the very best. Good luck. Mike

[lovingwife711]

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[lat36]

Hi Waiheke, by second lot of tests I guess that's including your pre-tx baseline tests and (at week 15) the results of your 12 week PCR. I would have expected them to mention the results of that, it's a significant one. If I were you I'd probably call them and find out, what you're after is a two log drop in viral load, undetectable is even better. Your haemoglobin is holding up a lot better than mine did. I'm also geno 1a, would be interested in hearing how you go.

[can-do-man]

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[Dale_Ray]

Unless you are a blood donor you have to be specifically tested for it, I am pretty sure about that. I was a blood donor through work and that is how I found out back in the mid 90's when they came up with a way to identify Hep C. I have been healthy but worried through the years. Stay close to your Doctor and ask him the questions. Dale