help ive known this woman for many years and just found out that she likes me as much as i like her but i was diagnosed with hepc and she believes it can be transmitted sexually i havent told her yet and we havent had sex or even kissed but i think ive been in love with her all this time and now i find out that it may be possible to transmit the disease to her .plz help i know almost nothing about it and i dont want to lose her!

help ive known this woman for many years and just found out that she likes me as much as i like her but i was diagnosed with hepc and she believes it can be transmitted sexually i havent told her yet and we havent had sex or even kissed but i think ive been in love with her all this time and now i find out that it may be possible to transmit the disease to her .plz help i know almost nothing about it and i dont want to lose her!

Hi p127,

hep c is not considered highly contagious except by blood transfer, but sexual transmission can occur. It is infrequent, but infrequent is not never, so you (and she) have cause for caution.
However, with safe sex practices--which i assume everybody dating nowadays follow--there is for all intents nothing else required. the risk of transmission by sex is much lower than STD's to begin with, and condoms and other safe practices should be all the protection anyone needs.

If it helps, I had hep c for decades, was married three times (no comment, please), fathered many children, and didn't find out til very late in this whole process that I even had anything like a virus. So, needless to say, my partners and I took no precautions against transmission at all. None. We raised the kids without ever thinking twice about blood or wounds or like that--believe me there were lots of accidents--and so on.
Nobody got anything. All have been tested, and some re-tested. Nothing, nowhere; just me.

So, transmission has been found, but it is not like the flu--you don't catch it so easily. Safe practices--i'm guessing the same behaviors you'd be likely to employ anyway--should be the answer.


hope this helps.

sean