Tuesday, October 27, 2009 djon asks

Q: Should I still be worried after negative hsv-1 and hsv-2 blood test after 7 weeks?

FACTS
Aug 12th - I had oral sex w/girl who may/may not have had herpes at that time.
           Both performed oral for short period of time and we had gential
           rubbing of some sort but not full intercourse.
Aug 17th - (around this date) - Girl said she was infected by cheating husband.
Aug 23rd - (around this date) - Girl went to clinic with first ever outbreak of w/herpes.
Aug 25th - (around this date) - Husband took test (I don't know what kind) and came up negative.
Oct 4th - Girl called about something else and mentioned getting herpes to me.
Oct 5th - (7 weeks 5 days after contact with girl).
- I went to std clinic for herpes blood test .
- Actually tested for everything else too
Oct 13th - My blood test was negative for both hsv-1 and hsv-2 and all other tests were negative.
         - Was told to return after 12 weeks after initial contact w/girl for most accurate results.
         - Was told I am low risk.

QUESTIONS
1) Can I be confident in any way with the results of the test I took after 7 weeks 5 days?
2) If I come up negative after 90 days can I assume I am not infected?
3) If not, what can I do to be confident I am not infected?

Any answers and additional infor would be great.

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Answers (1)

Honey

12/ 1/09 12:50am

Interesting to know that someone is like me! I will tell share my story with you. I've seen 7 drs. about my concern over having gential herpes. I had debateable symptoms initally after possible exposure such as sore throat, sore lymph nodes in neck, flu like feeling, like my body was having an immune response only who knows what that was about b/c I got tested two times now for igg and igm antibodies to hsv1 and 2 and all came out negative. I even had folliculitis that I thought was herpes, but the drs all told me no.It's been 3 mos since possible exposure. Since I've had symptoms I would assume that is the immune systems response and if I should have developed antibodies already. But most recent test was oct. 28th or so and that was negative. It is said that even if there are no symptoms or lets say recognizeable symptoms the antibodies will develop/show in the blood test. SO I'm curious now...It's another month later....did you get retested. Yeah it does seem like you have a small risk of being infected. Let me know what happened.

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