Kate Collins67 said:Look, I’m definitely not an infectious disease specialist, and honestly, every hospital or clinic has its own specific way of asking for labs and interpreting them.
It’s really hard for me to say for sure whether you need more testing or not based just on what you wrote—I mean, from what I can gather, probably not. But it's a totally different story when you’re actually treating a patient and have their full medical file right in front of you... though, hey, at least you have the luxury of time to comb through everything, right?☕
Based on what you've described, it sounds like you had it once, but it's gone now—kind of like how you move past the flu.
Those antibodies are actually a good thing; they protect you. You don't want to get rid of them. They're there to fight off the virus, and they develop because the virus was present. With some infections, they stay in your blood for life as a sort of shield, while with others, they just hang around for a set amount of time.
Now, if by any chance you actually had an active or chronic infection, or were just a carrier for Hepatitis B, that could potentially cause issues toward the end of a pregnancy (I guess I'm not entirely certain about the specifics during pregnancy), specifically regarding transmission to the baby during childbirth. Generally speaking, though, a Hep B infection tends to be much more dangerous for kids in the long run than it is for adults.
Thanks!