Thomas, Thank you for creating the forum. This is great place we can share our situation freely. I got HepB when I was about 22 years old in China. That was terrible experience. I will share more detail once I have time. I was hospitalized for about a month and my HbsAg was cleared. I continued to have HbsAg tested in the following few months and HbsAg was always negative, but I still felt terrible weak. Then I stopped having my HbsAg tested. After a couple years, I got really sick again and of course my HbsAg was positive again and since then. I came to the United State more than 25 years ago. I always have my hepB test each year and HBV DNA level was low. About five years ago, my HBV DNA level started escalated and I decided to take Viread and followed by Vimlidy. Now I feel much healthy.
As we all wished, we could clear the hepB by ourselves. I have all my family members tested. My mon, brother and sister all have hepB antibody. My sister-in-law and my brother-in-law have hepB HbsAg positive. My nephews have HbsAg positive also. So I don’t think I got my HbsAg when I was born. Most likely I got it when I was vaccinated with multiple-use needles when I was boy.
A couple months ago, I got Covid-19 and my temperature was as high as 40C for two days. And I refused to take any tylenol or mortrin. After I got HepB 30 years ago, I have never had any fever. I wanted to use this opportunity to clear my hepB. The theory is simple. Fever means immune system fighting hard. I wish that when my immune system fought the Covid-19, it would also kill and clear my hepB. After I recovered from Covid-19, I started having hives on my whole body and had to go to urgent care. Initially I refused to take any allergy medicine again until I could not tolerate. Again the theory is simple. Allergy means my immune system overreacting. I hoped my immune system had cleared my hepB and then overreacted. I will go to have my HbsAg test to see my theory is correct.