Do you know in which situation you caught it? Was it 1 to 1 sex or in a group? I caught it once at my first Berlin visit in 2012, I guess after letting a few random guys fuck me in Laboratory or at a Coffee&Cream Party. Today I'm quite sure that the main way of transmitting Hep C is when Tops run from bottom to bottom without cleaning their cocks or even when "Safer" Tops use the same condom for a number of bottoms. The HepC Virus can be highly concentrated in the slime of the mucous membrane inside the rectum, also in small amounts of blood from the little lesions inside the guts caused by the fucking, and that slime and micro doses of blood can be carried on the dirty dicks of the Tops from ass to ass. The Tops seem to have a quite low risk to infect themselves. The Virus is quite difficult to transmit, but bottoms, especially in group sex situations, are at a quite high risk, when they get dicks inside which were already inside another bottom who is acutely or chronically infected and has a high viral load.
Did your Doc tell you something about the strain / subtype of HCV you have? There are a number of strains circulating which differ greatly in how dangerous they are, whether they require treatment and how high the risk is that they will lead to a chronic disease. I had the luck in 2012 that "my strain" was a quite low dangerous one and my Doctor decided to wait some weeks if my immune system is able to manage the infection, and of course I had the luck to get rid of the infection after some weeks without any treatment at all, and although I was already HIV poz but still without HIV meds at that time, so I wondered that my immune system is strong enough to to this. I think the chance to get rid of a Hep C infection is also a question of individual genetic differences which influence how efficient an individual immune system fights that special kind of virus.
So I hope that this and what the oothers already answered you will help you not to despair, and that, if you need treatment, there will be found a solution how it will get paid. I keep my fingers crossed for you. 💋❤️