Someone who knows about vaccines please.....?

Question

i'm scared b/c my ex-boyfriend told me he has hep b and has had it for the past 5 yrs. now i slept with him a year ago was the last time and he had it at this time. i am vaccinated against hep b. i got tested and it was negative, but my concern is is the virus just laying in my body and when the vaccine runs out, will it then attack me and i will have it? or does the vaccine immediately kill the virus. if you know please tell me how or the website. thanks.

Answer 1

A vaccine is not a medicine that will run out eventually. Vaccines actually expose you to a small amount of the virus that has been made dormant, and allows your body to form antibodies against it. Then, when your body encounters the virus again, the already present antibodies will attack the virus and kill it ... preventing it from infecting your body. Considering that you've been vaccinated, your last exposure was a year ago, and you've gotten a negative result -- I definitely would not worry. Get another test in 6 months, just to ease your mind.

Answer 2

The first question is whether or not your Hep B vaccine titer was positive (as in the vaccine worked and you have antibodies against it). If this is so than you are immune to the disease. Usually, after people get vaccinated the titer is checked to make sure it worked (especially for stuff like Hep B). If your's was positive you have nothing to worry about.

Anyway, in the future do not have unprotected sex...there is a lot of other things that can be transmitted.

Answer 3

if you were vaccinated you should have had a titer test to be sure the 3 shots were effective in protecting you....if not you would have been given another shot....and a titer test again.....once that is good then you are protected from the hep b

Answer 4

I vaccine maked your body immune so you are fine.