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Hep C cureable?
Hi all -
Kind of new to Hep C. Had a potential exposure (very brief, unsolicited or wanted, oral sex with stripper). During a lapdance, She basically surprised me by putting her fingers inside her vagina and licking them off. Then she pretended to go down on me... but before I really knew what she was up to, pulled my shorts down during the lapdance and sucked very hard for a brief moment. Don't think she broke skin, but it hurt a bit I had abrasions/blood blister type marks the next day.
Felt horrible all the next day and couldn't eat. Secnond day, had horrible feeling that something was not right and felt really weird. Then got a rash that lasted for a few days. Day after that, diarreah in the AM, and the following AM. Some night sweats for a few nigthts. By day four or five, pretty much all symptoms gone.
Going to get Hep and HIV test 25 days out, then again at six weeks.
Question is... if I did contract Hep C -- can it be cured? I've read that with drugs the virus can be fought off. Is this true?
Kind of new to Hep C. Had a potential exposure (very brief, unsolicited or wanted, oral sex with stripper). During a lapdance, She basically surprised me by putting her fingers inside her vagina and licking them off. Then she pretended to go down on me... but before I really knew what she was up to, pulled my shorts down during the lapdance and sucked very hard for a brief moment. Don't think she broke skin, but it hurt a bit I had abrasions/blood blister type marks the next day.
Felt horrible all the next day and couldn't eat. Secnond day, had horrible feeling that something was not right and felt really weird. Then got a rash that lasted for a few days. Day after that, diarreah in the AM, and the following AM. Some night sweats for a few nigthts. By day four or five, pretty much all symptoms gone.
Going to get Hep and HIV test 25 days out, then again at six weeks.
Question is... if I did contract Hep C -- can it be cured? I've read that with drugs the virus can be fought off. Is this true?
Thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it. I'll poke around on the other forum. (And no, won't be going back there, or any other club, ever again!)
Methinks that you need to check in the Sexually transmitted diseases area.
No rashes with HCV or any Hepatitis that I know of --- sounds like you had a hella flu --- but not HCV.
If there was no BLOOD TO BLOOD INTERACTION (blood injected into your blood stream) --- then chances are probably NIL -- NONE -- NADA that you got HCV from a blowjob.
Hope you had fun there --- and that you at least tipped her well.
Hep C is "TECHNICALLY" cureable.
You will always have HCV antibodies - but the virus itself appears to go into remission and stops damaging the liver --- however is that cured?
I dunno --- and I don't think science can even answer that yet.
I haven't gotten a straight answer from anyone... But some of us believe that Sustained Virologic Response is Cured... Some of us believe it is merely remission that can reactivate if the circumstances are correct.
Good luck... MedHelp does have a sexually transmitted disease forum.
Meki
No rashes with HCV or any Hepatitis that I know of --- sounds like you had a hella flu --- but not HCV.
If there was no BLOOD TO BLOOD INTERACTION (blood injected into your blood stream) --- then chances are probably NIL -- NONE -- NADA that you got HCV from a blowjob.
Hope you had fun there --- and that you at least tipped her well.
Hep C is "TECHNICALLY" cureable.
You will always have HCV antibodies - but the virus itself appears to go into remission and stops damaging the liver --- however is that cured?
I dunno --- and I don't think science can even answer that yet.
I haven't gotten a straight answer from anyone... But some of us believe that Sustained Virologic Response is Cured... Some of us believe it is merely remission that can reactivate if the circumstances are correct.
Good luck... MedHelp does have a sexually transmitted disease forum.
Meki
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