I don't think skifunatic will be around to be able to agree, this post was from 2008.
actually, the lowest is under 15, which means an acute infection, too low to test for RNA/DNA, geno/phenotypes! and the body has cured itself! So I guess that is one in a million! I am not too sure of your count, as everyone says it is low, you have agood chance of fighting this battle. Good luck to you and god bless!
Here is a great website that will help you with questions that you might have...it helped me so much when I first found out I had the disease (I don't any longer). This place helped the most of all!
Have you had a biopsy done? That along with your liver enzymes level will give you a good picture if you 'need' to treat now or not. If you are low stage and have time to wait that is a personal decision.
PS Viral loads go up and down and all over the place all the time until you treat but I've never seen that low a number either!
Good luck,
Debby
http://janis7hepc.com/
I am sure, my count is 1100. I'm really glad it's so low. I still don't know if I'm going to go through the treatment, so many side effects.
Mine viral load was 10,000,000 million so that is awfully low. Are you sure of that number? I would double check, but if it's correct then that's a good thing!
billstrong1969
Yep, I got hep B and hep C in the early 80's. My body got rid of the hep B virus, but hep C became chronic.
If you find out you have hep C in the acute stage (the first 6 months I believe) and start treating it within this time period, the odds for a successful treatment are much higher than if it has become chronic hep C. You have had it for at least 7 years, which means it is chronic (not acute).
A viral load under 400'000 IU/ml also means a higher rate of successful treatment - 70% compared to 50% for all genotype 1's. The main reason for this is that a lot of patients with low viral load achieve undetectable status by week 4 of treatment.
Here is a link to read about low viral load:
http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/2006icr/aasld/docs/103106_d.html
In Europe it is becoming more and more common to treat genotype 1's with a low viral load who become UND by week 4 for only 24 weeks. These patients have a 90% success rate.
1100?!? If that is correct then that is the lowest I have ever heard of!
I found out that I had hepc 7 years ago, but I may have had it since I had hepb which was in the 1970's. What do you mean by "Acutes" when you say that they have a much higher rate of success?
Extremely low. Do you have an acute case of hep C - i e did you catch the disease recently? Acutes have a much higher rate of success with treatment.