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out of curioity, how many picked up HEP C while using?

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I've used needles for the last 6 years; never shared once. however, I did share a spoon and cotton, which I was unaware of the possible of contracting the virus.

I was always a solo user, so I never shared or used with others. I had others at my house at times and they used my needles but NEVER the other way around unless someone had a brand new pin.

I was checked most recent 3 months ago and still negative on Hep C but I see so many ex-junkies/junkies like us w/ the virus. its a damn shame we all contracted the virus in ways the "norm" would never understand.

sorry if you feel like this is asking too much but I always wondered how many other dope fiends out there w/o hep c. everyone I seem to meet who is a ex junkie/junkie seems to have the hep, so I wanted to ask.

Tks.
 
Think it all depends how deep they are in into addiction. Or more specifically, desperation. Used 10ish times all by myself, pretty sure if I was in a year or so I would share if I was going through withadrawls.
 
yea, I agree but I've been very desperate but always used solo somehow and someway. I would always have MY NEEDLES and just use those over and over again; never really shared shit besides the spoon a few times which I wasnt aware I could catch hep c but got tested and thankfully nothing; I was sharing was another true junkie and lucky enough he didnt have the hep.
 
AbusedTampon said:
Think it all depends how deep they are in into addiction. Or more specifically, desperation. Used 10ish times all by myself, pretty sure if I was in a year or so I would share if I was going through withadrawls.
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Never share any gear. Period.

A moment of satisfaction for a lifetime of health struggles, what the heck right?
 
<----totally infected with hepc. 17million viral load. there are five stages, 0-4 to gauge liver fibrosis. The last stage is cirrhosis. I'm on three.

T calderone: do you get extreme fatigue and extremely dark urine? I get worn out so quick now. I too had a drinking problem, in addition to my opiate problem.

It sucks to have this. I always see the commercials for solvadi and I get pissed off because my insurance company keeps giving me the run around to treat it.
 
I have shared more times and with more people than I would like to admit. I don't have HIV but I am too scared to get the test for Hep C
 
crimsonjunk said:
I have shared more times and with more people than I would like to admit. I don't have HIV but I am too scared to get the test for Hep C
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I feel you man i too have some health shit I'd like to leave on the back burner,

But only better to be on it in the long run.

Wish the best for you crimson.
 
I MIGHT. I don't know.... The first time I used IV it was with Diludid 8mg's (2 Exaglos) and we had put are rigs in the fridge to make them stay cold or whatever...anyway, always heard my friend say her mom had it, and had her said she had it but got tested again and didn't(this was before we got the rigs mixed up) anyway my friend said don't share with my mom, and we got the rigs mixed up and I did hers...She said she didn't haven't and I've known them for years and said I wouldn't be mad it was an accident just tell me so I could go to the dotor or whatever, swore she didn't she had gotten re-tested a few times and nothing showed up...so I might have or not....my guese is I have and need to go get it checked out. My Suboxone doctor didn't check cuz I didn't let it be known I was an IV user and I'm gonna try to get Subtex soon(just because of the price difference, been on strips for 2 years), person I got mixed the needle up with went to the Methadone clincic 7/8 years before when that showed up...ya i prolby do, I'm gonna ask her again if she has it..

Edit: Most likey I have it, it's always been in the back of my head, but I know ALL the meds she takes and she's been in the HS a few times, well a lot of times the past few and I'd assume they would test her for that too and give her meds for it. Had some kinda virus though, the one that commedian Tig Notaryo had...C-fad or something, so surely they tested for Hep C also and would've given her meds for it.....but gonna make a docs appointment and get that checked out. I'ts been about 3/and a half years since that happened...AND IT WAS MY FIRST TIME,WE WERE TAKING ALLL THE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS,then my high ass grabbed the wrong rig...least she let me know, think cuz it had a whole 8mg in it, not half of one....
 
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I assure it is better to know than not. The faster you know, the faster you can come to grips with it and maybe seek treatment. I let mine go to long, now I have irreversible damage to my liver.
 
Man I just typed a bunch of stuff and lost my post dammit. Crimson, please get tested! Hep c is so much more treatable now than it was even a couple years ago. @manboychef, my doctor did not say what the viral load was. Just that it was genotype 3-a which apparently is not common here in the US. I had the same problem with Medicaid not paying for it and denying my appeals. Then they dropped me altogether because of my income.

So applied for Gilead's patient assistance program for sovaldi which is in the works. Then I got a call last week telling me I had to do the same process with ribavirin. My symptoms were mainly gastrointestinal but recently upper belly and back rib pains. The doctor said it's a bit more complicated when cirrhosis is present too. All we can do is remain hopeful right! Going to pm you with more info.
 
I think any addict who has done anything question and i mean anything, provided they are not passed a point, will have some anxiety over getting tested. I barely did anything with anyone other then my g/f and I was so worried at some point in the beginning i may have shared a spoon or some shit before i realized how stupid that was. So once i learned how critical it was to keep everything clean i became anal about it but before then if i shared a spoon or a water source i wouldnt even remember because i wasnt thinking about it.

I think there needs to be a huge push in the whole "dont share anything at all" idea. We hear "dont share needles or use a needle twice" but very rarely do you hear about water sources and spoons. Even kids in middle school know the risks of sharing needle because of anti drug propaganda why not include water sources and spoons?

Thankfully when I got tested for both HIV and Hep C. i was negative for both. I fully believe i am fine but i will get the blood work redone at some point, even though i havent engaged in risky behavior, just to make sure it didnt get missed somehow. And its funny because i had crazy anxiety over it like "oh god then i have to tell my girlfriend she needs to go" and it didnt go away until i knew, but i always knew it was better to know then to not.

Remember, not knowing does not make you not have the virus or live longer. Not knowing will make things harder and increase the chance of you gaining "more to lose" in a sense through forming a relationship without knowing or suddenly caring about your health again. It is in the interest of everyone, the human race, that you get tested so we can phase this out. It makes me sad knowing people suffer from something that we can all help prevent but it starts with all of us here on this forum. If every bluelighter knew their status and took proper measures to save those we care about maybe we can lower the risk and the transmission rate. I know its idealistic but maybe even just 10 of us knowing can save 100 from getting infected.
 
i got the virus. ten years back to. im still alive, plan to head back to the USA when i can to get that solvadi. dont fuckin skitz bra, you can get treatment much easier then back in the day. when i first got infected it was a death sentence, nowadays you take a pill a day for 4 months. aint shit. dont lose your balls homez.
 
szuko000 said:
I think any addict who has done anything question and i mean anything, provided they are not passed a point, will have some anxiety over getting tested. I barely did anything with anyone other then my g/f and I was so worried at some point in the beginning i may have shared a spoon or some shit before i realized how stupid that was. So once i learned how critical it was to keep everything clean i became anal about it but before then if i shared a spoon or a water source i wouldnt even remember because i wasnt thinking about it.

I think there needs to be a huge push in the whole "dont share anything at all" idea. We hear "dont share needles or use a needle twice" but very rarely do you hear about water sources and spoons. Even kids in middle school know the risks of sharing needle because of anti drug propaganda why not include water sources and spoons?

Thankfully when I got tested for both HIV and Hep C. i was negative for both. I fully believe i am fine but i will get the blood work redone at some point, even though i havent engaged in risky behavior, just to make sure it didnt get missed somehow. And its funny because i had crazy anxiety over it like "oh god then i have to tell my girlfriend she needs to go" and it didnt go away until i knew, but i always knew it was better to know then to not.

Remember, not knowing does not make you not have the virus or live longer. Not knowing will make things harder and increase the chance of you gaining "more to lose" in a sense through forming a relationship without knowing or suddenly caring about your health again. It is in the interest of everyone, the human race, that you get tested so we can phase this out. It makes me sad knowing people suffer from something that we can all help prevent but it starts with all of us here on this forum. If every bluelighter knew their status and took proper measures to save those we care about maybe we can lower the risk and the transmission rate. I know its idealistic but maybe even just 10 of us knowing can save 100 from getting infected.
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Great post defo worth a read.

Honestly it's just a speed bump get it takin care of an drive over that bitch.

I have different shit, life goes on.
 
I had hep c and my dumb ass knowingly used a needle after someone that was infected used it. I believe I used to have a death wish because I was so miserable while using I didn't want to make it to thirty.Anyway about 5 years ago(finally had will to live back) I took interferon(some shit called Pegasus) and ribavirin. The interferon I had to give myself injections in my stomach and the ribavirin had to eat an insanely high fat diet and that was tough because the interferon makes you sick to your stomach. I was on these medictions fr about 3 months and my platelettes crashed to aroud 30,000 which is real low and can make your brain hemorrhage. I was hallucinating with a fever of 106.5(that's as high as my digital theremometer would go) it might have been a little lower cause at the hospital it was 105.7.Anyway I had became anemic which is one of the side effects of the medicines and my asshole GI doctor should have had me on medication to keep my red blood cells in check. Anyway this was 3 months into treatment and I was told treatment is usually 6-9 months so they take me off meds and I think I'm fucked. I don't know how but someone loves my dumb ass up there because after running my blood work I came back hep free. It has scared me because twice in the last 5 years I had blood work and the doctors are like you have hep c but thankfully my tests come up as false positive because I have the anti bodies. Any way to make a short story long I definetly didn't deserve this second chance I've received but haven't touched needles since and though I'm far from perfect I try not to take life for granted anymore!
 
I was 24 years old, 13 years ago, I had never done any drug in my life. I met a guy and instantly and stupidly fell in love with him. He had started smoking crack at my house and talked me into it and the rush from those very few puffs was all it took. He started shooting cocaine and talked me into it. I let him shoot me up trusting that he was clean as he had told me. After just that month, he got arrested and I never did those drugs again. A year later, I gave blood to the Red Cross. About 2 weeks later, I got a letter in the mail from Red Cross telling me that I was infected with Hepatitis C. After extensive treatments of Interferon and Ribavirin, which was almost as bad as Chemotherapy, I lost hair had no energy and felt sick 24/7, I tested clean and have been tested several times in the last few years and still test negative. Thank God above for Hep C treatment!
 
I wish I could get my hands on those drugs. If you can catch it before you have damaged your liver you can save yourself a lot of the symptoms. I have genotype 2b. It is the most common in the united states. They say you can live for a very long time with it, but once you have liver damage there is no fixing that.

I found out I had it in a psych ward, and I wasn't in there because everything was going swimmingly. The doctor got freaked out because my liver enzymes were so high so he made me go to the hospital and get a sonogram and liver biopsy. Yep signifigant fibrosis. I thought it was a death sentence so I went out and partied harder than before.

Now I quit. I realized there are more important things in my life than me. I live healthier. No tylenol, No booze, No opiates, No tobacco. I drink a cup of coffee every day which is good for the liver, and I await treatment. I don't care if it makes me sick, because I already feel like shit most of the time right now anyways.

Acceptance is key. What is done cannot be undone. I know it is a death sentence for me to go back to drinking and drugging, and I cannot in the future due to the liver damage I already have. I plan on living forever or dying trying, and I'm not going to let a virus I can't even see take me down.
 
manboychef said:
I assure it is better to know than not. The faster you know, the faster you can come to grips with it and maybe seek treatment. I let mine go to long, now I have irreversible damage to my liver.
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exactly why I dont understand some people; I may have pushed it off a month or so, but you have some users push off years and years of abuse w/o a single test. you are only making it worse and worse, and eventually it will become part of daily life rather than just a monthly or every few month matter.
 
goodgirl78 said:
I was 24 years old, 13 years ago, I had never done any drug in my life. I met a guy and instantly and stupidly fell in love with him. He had started smoking crack at my house and talked me into it and the rush from those very few puffs was all it took. He started shooting cocaine and talked me into it. I let him shoot me up trusting that he was clean as he had told me. After just that month, he got arrested and I never did those drugs again. A year later, I gave blood to the Red Cross. About 2 weeks later, I got a letter in the mail from Red Cross telling me that I was infected with Hepatitis C. After extensive treatments of Interferon and Ribavirin, which was almost as bad as Chemotherapy, I lost hair had no energy and felt sick 24/7, I tested clean and have been tested several times in the last few years and still test negative. Thank God above for Hep C treatment!
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damn girl, I feel for yah! I can only imagine catching like that; I've stuck myself w/ the same pin about 30 times but it was ONLY MY PIN and I'd use over and over; I still shared spoons/cotton with others, which as mentioned above, is not something people say you can catch from, so I was fucking happy to find out I never caught the virus. then again, they say it can test negative and then all of a sudden pop up so w/ my luck, who knows, but as of now ill take it.
 
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