For someone who has hepatitis C and they want to detect their viral loads in their bloodstream?

Can someone explain to me what is the normal viral load and high viral load. I will gladly appreciated.

As Bayla and Stephanie said, there is no "normal" viral load. A viral load of less than 1,000,000 (or by some scales 800,000 IU's) is considered low, anything over that is considered high. However, it is very typical for people with hepatitis c (HCV) to have viral loads in the millions and tens of millions. There is no correlation between your viral load and how much damage has occurred to the liver, but there is a correlation between the viral load and how probable it is to clear the virus on treatment. That doesn't mean someone with a high viral load won't clear the virus; it just means they may have to be on treatment for a little longer time. Hope this helps. Best wishes.

When one has HCV infection and it is chronic active, it doesn't really matter what sort of viral load you have-there is no such thing as a normal viral load because you have HCV infection.

Now, if you were one of the lucky ones who's body actually fought it off, there would be no viral load only antibodies.
(antibodies will either show active or resolved).

Treat early!

a normal viral load?

Normal would be not having any virus. <10iu/mL at the last PCR..

My viral load was 660,000 and I was at,
Stage 3, Genoytype 3

My g/f had a 2 million viral load and was only
Stage 1,Genotype 1a or 1b?

Both of us cleared at seperate times.

Can you see how the viral load alone doesn't matter?
I was much sicker than my g/f and look at how low my viral load was.

I'm a HCV Advocate and 2yr SVR..myspace friends are advocates as well.

hope this helps!