Hello great community of HepB 
My name is Mohamed from Mauritania, I am 44 years old.
I am new to the forum as well I was just diagnosed HBsAg positive since very few days.
Without the warm welcoming from you when I introduced myself, and the outstanding source of information I got from here, I wouldn’t be in a such great morale like I am in now 
On Friday Jun 12, 2026 I received my analysis paper showing this (French):
Everything is negative except for HBsAg is positive, something like a bomb thrown on my entire soul and body! Very frightened!, specially I never encountered any health problems (which I discovered I was wrong later).
I called a friend of mine who works in the field of health care and asked him what should I do. First he calmed me down and told me to redo the HBsAg again and then he’ll guide me through on further steps.
On the following day (June 13) the test result was detailed like this (French):
I showed the second result to my friend and he told me I will go to the Liver And Viral Viruses Institute to control the viral load.
Those remaining days before Monday were just black and white, where I lost the taste of everything and got into a real anxiety.
My friend took me to the Liver And Viruses Institute on Monday 15 where I met the doctor, he was very friendly and supportive so much, he told me my viral load and the situation of the virus if it is silent or active will be determined after the following medical checkups are conducted (to be done within three days on June 22):
He asked me If I am married, I told him I am divorced since many years, he asked me if there’s a member of the family is HBsAg positive, I told him not in my knowledge (my sister will be screening soon to see her status, my ex-wife is negative and my 14 year old son is vaccinated), he asked if I was in doubt of someone, I told him no because I can’t have any sexual contact without marriage (due to my religion which strictly prohibits that).
After the visit, I came back home, and I discovered the forum here! It was the major factor that changed my overall mood from a sharp drop in morale to a very high and positive one!.
Now I am waiting my full analysis next monday and I will be publishing them here, however I must tell you why I was wrong about my health situation!.
Back in 2017 I remember I was feeling fatigue for just nothing with yellow peeing between times with mild fever, I wasn’t aware and truly wasn’t care for that, because stupidly I am kind of those people who do not go to the hospital, everything else was good, no pain, nothing at all concerning my health as I thought, and that was very very wrong thinking.
This situation was coming back and forth until 2023 i felt it has vanished, all this period no idea was coming to my mind about Hepatitis B (what I big stupidity).
At the end, without this great community I wouldn’t be such happy person as I am now
Thank you all 
and see you soon
Which is of course a mysterious thing in our actual medical level of knowledge.
