Hepatitis C and Drinking

While I drank steady from 18-40, from light to finally desperate, I did a lot of other none too bright things. Starting with 18-25 with a needle in my arm for heroin. Then there are the tatoos and the ear piercing. These last three activities are skin evasive activities and Hep-C is a blood borne pathogen. I ended up having to do the Peg-Intron and Ribovarin 5 years sober or 20 years after my last needle/inking/ear-pierce. If you have engaged in any of these activies also - then it may be in your best interested to have yourself checked. Did you also know that HIV is blood borne too?

Steve B.