Am I at risk

[minim]

After dating my boyfriend for over a year, I've discovered through paperwork in his filing cabinet that he has hep c. When confronted, he said it was from drug use as a teenager and can not me transmitted through sex. There are many different theories online about this, and I am panicking. What is the truth.  

[willbb]

EVERYONE WHO SAYS ITS NOT SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED IS DEAD WRONG! I am living proof!
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Your recent post in capital letters might give one to believe that HCV is highly contagious by sexual means and this has proven by research to not be the case.

You may very well have contracted the virus by this means however given the research done and the 100's of members here if not 1000' s I have seen post  who say their spouse has not been infected  after usually decades of being together it seems to be an extremely rare mode of transmission.( a link below)

Congrats on your SVR..
Will

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Hepatitis-C/Am-I-at-risk/show/202463

Heterosexual Partners rarely infected.

The risk of sexually transmitting a chronic hepatitis C infection to a long-term monogamous heterosexual partner is very low, averaging just about 1% per year. That risk level works out to a transmission rate of about one in every 190,000 sexual contacts, Dr. Norah Terrault and her colleagues reported in Hepatology (2013;57:881-9).

The cross-sectional study also found that no one sexual practice – including anal intercourse or inter- course during menses – significantly increased the risk of transmission, wrote Dr. Terrault of the University of California, San Francisco.
The findings can be used to provide “unambiguous and reassuring counseling messages,” she and her coinvestigators noted. The study included 500 subjects with chronic HCV infections, and their sexual partners.

[willbb]

That was the wrong link..

http://hepatitiscnewdrugs.blogspot.ca/search/label/transmission

[FlGuy]

Must have been an interesting conversation: "When I was going through you personal papers in you filing cabinet I found out you had HCV"  I guess you both learned something about each other.....

[can-do-man]

A relationship built on trust FLguy......

[can-do-man]

"I was dating a man who did not tell me he had in until way into the relationship and all the while he was having unprotected sex with me"

Just say NO

[Brandibummed]

"A very low risk" does not = hep C isn't transmitted sexually. It means if you didn't get it from your partner who is infected you were lucky because you could have. And I did. And I discussed the pain I had with my doctors and they are the ones who told me it was most likely the infection From Hep C that I was mistaking for something else. And when infected with Hep C people do get symptoms most people just blow them off as something else. In the first 6 months of infection it's very common to have flu like symptoms. AND I DID. I was very aware that something was wrong.

But I find it funny how people who are infected always want to minimize the disease and insist sex is safe. It's actually not. I know exactly where when and how I caught this disease so I'm just sharing my experience here. I think we all think "it won't happen to me" but when it does... If you take the chance with a partner and give it to them.. Then what will you say? Oh wow!!! Sorry!! I guess your one of the 3%! My bad!!!??? I just think as the infected person it's so imp to take responsibility and be careful. My partner didn't tell me. He didn't give me the opportunity to choose what to do....

Best of luck to all of you. And I hope each of you that is infected has the easiest time possible on treatment and that you achieve SVR. But don't fool yourselves or your partners they can get it from you and if they haven't YET they are lucky.