SURVEY: How Long have you/did you have Hep C for and What type?

[Linda Freeman]

The reason I'm asking is that a fella in this support group I went to
said that he had his for only 4 years. I've had mine for 31 years.

[Paul]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:33:53 -0800, lfreemanli...@webtv.net
(Linda Freeman), in message ID
<28818-4B2...@baytvnwsxa002.msntv.msn.com>, in the newsgroup
alt.support.hepatitis-c wrote:

>The reason I'm asking is that a fella in this support group I went to
>said that he had his for only 4 years. I've had mine for 31 years.

Most people don't know for sure.
When I was diagnosed, I believe I had had mine for between 17 and 29
years. This assumes it was caused by sharing needles. Impossible to
pinpoint it more accurately than that for me. Of course, there is a
slim chance that there was another cause which would make the above
estimate invalid.

[Waterspider]

"Linda Freeman" <lfreemanli...@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:28818-4B2...@baytvnwsxa002.msntv.msn.com...

> The reason I'm asking is that a fella in this support group I went to
> said that he had his for only 4 years. I've had mine for 31 years.
>

Geno 3; at least 20 years.

For most people, it's almost impossible to determine exactly when HCV was
acquired. For example, being exposed to tainted blood from a hospital and
subsequently notified of this does not eliminate the possibility that the
person had already been infected with hep C.