Hepatitis C Support Group

To the best of my knowledge it
6 months post 98%
1 year post 99%
3 years 99.9 %
5 year post 100%
now this is drug company numbers
many say there is no cure
my GI is not one of them

I got one 2 months after tx

and I got one at 3 months post too

jet, the word "cure" is being used very frequently right now . this has only been happening for a few months. if the inflamation in the liver recedes it seems to me that the liver is holding its own or healing. course thats only an opinion. the terminology indeed has morphed into "cure" very recently..

I am just curious what it means for people who clear on their own. One of my adopted children (my son) always test positive for the antibody but has consistently tested RNA negative. So is he still contagious? Should I have to tell him someday that he has or had a disease? Just wondering...

I would like to say no he is not
and some would say the same thing
but I think nobody can say for sure
There are 3 answers to what undetectable means.
1. Cure: the virus is gone. This would be noncontagious
2. Dormant: the virus is no longer reproductive
3. Remission: the reproductive ability of the virus has slowed to the point your immune system can kill it just as fast as it reproduces itself.
If the RNA test is a Quantitative HCV RNA tests
it mean there are less than 10 virus copy to a milliliter of blood
or undetectable
it take 25 copy to equal the space of one red blood cell
there is about 1 billion red blood cell to a milliliter of blood
plus plasma
a milliliter is about 4 to 6 drops of blood.

About 15% of people who contact the virus, body fight off the antibody. Mr Study nurse and that all she does, told me that at three months if you are undetechable you have a 95% charge of beating this beast. I believe you alway have a small change of it coming be (less then a half percent)