Many people with hepatitis B won't experience any symptoms and may fight off the virus without realising they had it. If symptoms do develop, they tend to occur 2 or 3 months after exposure to the hepatitis B virus. Symptoms of hepatitis B include: flu-like symptoms, including tiredness, a fever, and general aches and pains loss of appetite feeling and being sick diarrhoea abdominal pain yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice) These symptoms will usually pass within one to three months (acute hepatitis B), although occasionally the infection can last for six months or more (chronic hepatitis B).