can a blood test and urine sample effectively test for herpes for someone with no symptoms?
my boyfriend and I had unprotected sex, after about two days I had some bumps around there, went to a free clinic where they tested me, and my results came back positive for herpes.
however, my boyfriend has been tested for std before and the results came back clean. he recently just got a urine and blood sample and his doctor said he is fine. however! my doctor told me that the only way I could have gotten herpes is from sex, not from being unsanitary or germs etc.
so, I really am searching my brain.. if in his tests he came back clean... how could I have herpes.. or are his tests skipping out on something?
(he has never had any symptoms)
I don't know if this applies to genital herpes as well as oral, but there is a chance that you were a carrier of the virus without showing any symptoms for a long time. Had you been tested before ?
There is also the possibility that your boyfriends' tests were wrong, they are never 100% accurate.
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quail
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 06:59 PM
Thank you for your response and ohyeah, I forgot to mention that before that one time, I had never had any sexual/genital contact before.. and that time was the only time I have had sex so I never had been tested. However my boyfriend has had a partner before me.
but from my understanding its just a virus, and one cannot be a carrier of it, and its only obtained through transmission hm.