Hello,<\/p>\n
Thank-you for your email.<\/p>\n
I’m very sorry to hear how worried you are. Do you have any support to help you deal with this?<\/p>\n
Hep C can be transmitted when there is blood to blood contact. If this partner is HCV+ then there is therefore a possibility of transmission. But if he has cleared the virus then he would no longer be infectious. The information he gave about clearing it after 12 months of treatment is very plausible and it seems strange that he would make this up.<\/p>\n
Please try not to worry, but do speak to your doctor about this. It can take up to 3 months for Hep C to show up on antibody tests, but a PCR test (which looks for the virus itself) can detect infection 1-2 weeks after exposure.<\/p>\n
If you do test positive you should discuss the pros and cons of treatment with your doctor. 20% of HIV positive people who are infected spontaneously clear the infection in the acute stage. If you have been infected though, and don’t clear Hep C spontaneously, the highest treatment success rates are in early infection.<\/p>\n
I wish you the best of luck. Please let us know if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello, could you please answer my question regarding transmission of Hepatitis C. I am terrified and extremely worried that I may have contracted Hepatitis C.<\/p>\n
I had anal sex (bottom) with a casual partner a week ago who I met online, I am HIV+ with an undetectable Viral Load and the other guy said that he too was Undetectable and on HIV meds. <\/p>\n
To cut a long story short the condom completely ripped and tore during anal sex which I asume maybe was caused by friction and lack of lubrication. <\/p>\n
When I got home I noticed that there was fresh blood in my underwear and I was in alot of pain in this region. I suffer with hemorrhoids and anal fissure which was aggravated during sex and this lead me to unknowingly bleed and have an open wound. I have never previously experienced bleeding during anal sex. There was also evidence of this casual partners (top) semen inside me when I examined myself, so I know that the condom completely tore open during sex. <\/p>\n
I understood from talking with this other person that he had previously contracted Hepatitis C, as he told me that he had managed to clear it with 12 months HCV medication (obviously this is only what I was being told) and am unsure on the person’s actual Hepatitis C status.<\/p>\n
Realistically what are my chances of contracting HepC from this unfortunate episode of sex if this person remains HCV+ as I am worried sick.<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}