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If you do develop symptoms from acute infection, the average time from exposure to symptoms ranges from 1 to 12 weeks after becoming infected, while others will experience them 6 months later. In some cases, people can live with hep C for years, and that could be lifetime, before they experience any symptoms at all… Even without symptoms, a person with hep C can still spread the virus to others.

If you’re at risk for hep C (HCV), and have experienced any of the symptoms listed below, speak with your healthcare professional and ask if you should be tested. Or see one of our Health Network Collective Testers.

• Lethargy, fatigue, feeling tired
• Loss of appetitie
• Stomach pain(s)
• Nausea
• Joint pain
• Dark urine
• Pale poo or pale bowel movements
• Jaundice, yellow whites of the eyes and sometime skin.
• And any history of at risk activities, see Am I at Risk

• If you received a blood transfusion or donated organ prior to 1992
• Taking drugs through a needle (injecting), even just once
• Receiving tattoos or piercings, mainly from unlicensed studios or from unsterile practice
• Historic health care in Eastern Europe, Russia, Egypt or North Africa, India or Pakistan
• Your mother or another household member has HCV

Less Common

• Have you ever spent time in prison, (especially prison tattoos)
• Sexual practices that can could cause exposure to blood (such as anal sex)
• Sharing personal items such as toothbrushes and razors
• Snorting drugs (use of straws and other shared means to snort)

If you do develop symptoms from acute infection, the average time from exposure to symptoms ranges from 1 to 12 weeks after becoming infected, while others will experience them 6 months later. In some cases, people can live with hep C for years, and that could be lifetime, before they experience any symptoms at all… Even without symptoms, a person with hep C can still spread the virus to others.

If you’re at risk for hep C (HCV), and have experienced any of the symptoms listed below, speak with your healthcare professional and ask if you should be tested. Or see one of our Health Network Collective Testers.

• Lethargy, fatigue, feeling tired
• Loss of appetitie
• Stomach pain(s)
• Nausea
• Joint pain
• Dark urine
• Pale poo or pale bowel movements
• Jaundice, yellow whites of the eyes and sometime skin.
• And any history of at risk activities, see Am I at Risk

If you do develop symptoms from acute infection, the average time from exposure to symptoms ranges from 1 to 12 weeks after becoming infected, while others will experience them 6 months later. In some cases, people can live with hep C for years, and that could be lifetime, before they experience any symptoms at all… Even without symptoms, a person with hep C can still spread the virus to others.

If you’re at risk for hep C (HCV), and have experienced any of the symptoms listed below, speak with your healthcare professional and ask if you should be tested. Or see one of our Health Network Collective Testers.

• Lethargy, fatigue, feeling tired
• Loss of appetitie
• Stomach pain(s)
• Nausea
• Joint pain
• Dark urine
• Pale poo or pale bowel movements
• Jaundice, yellow whites of the eyes and sometime skin.
• And any history of at risk activities, see Am I at Risk

• If you received a blood transfusion or donated organ prior to 1992
• Taking drugs through a needle (injecting), even just once
• Receiving tattoos or piercings, mainly from unlicensed studios or from unsterile practice
• Historic health care in Eastern Europe, Russia, Egypt or North Africa, India or Pakistan
• Your mother or another household member has HCV

Less Common

• Have you ever spent time in prison, (especially prison tattoos)
• Sexual practices that can could cause exposure to blood (such as anal sex)
• Sharing personal items such as toothbrushes and razors
• Snorting drugs (use of straws and other shared means to snort)