Finding out about hep C will help you plan for the future. Our Hep C Action Newsletter Program can help guide you through testing and treatment.
Does This Sound Like You?
There are many ways to get hepatitis C—and many ways to find the courage to fight back. Hear these stories from patients who got tested and then made the right decision for each of them.
The bottom line: how you got hepatitis C isn’t nearly as important as what you plan to do next.
If you would like to hear representative scenarios of how people got hepatitis C, please play video clips below.
“This snake tattoo I have is a beauty. People stop me in the street about it. The artist was a real pro. He sterilized everything…at least I thought he did.”
“Have you ever shared a straw of cocaine? I did. One night 20 years ago. I never did it again or even thought about it. Not until a year ago when I found out that I have Hepatitis C.”
“Have you ever tried using I.V. drugs? I did. Once. But it turns out that one time may have given me hepatitis C. Because I shared the needle. One lousy needle. One lousy time.”
“When I finally opened the letter, I was told I had hepatitis C and that I needed to see a doctor…I had never heard of it before.”
“The way that I got infected was during an emergency appendectomy in 1984…they didn’t test for that type of disease back then.”
“I was basically a victim of non-information…”
