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Hi Terri,
I had a sexual encounter with someone back in April who had HSV-2. It was protected, they were not having an outbreak and haven’t had one since. I still decided to check so throughout the past few months I’ve gotten IGG blood tests (once in May, once in June). Both were negative.
I recently got another last week and now my results are 1.08 equivocal on a scale that is .91-1.09 equivocal.
Does this mean that I’m trending towards positive? Could this be a false positive? What should I do. It’s been 5 months since that initial April encounter so I’m confused as to why it is equivocal now. Thank you.
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The cutoff between negative, equivocal and low positives are arbitrary. if you had an equivocal IgG test 6 weeks after a potential exposure, I would say repeat in 6 weeks and if still equivocal, forget about it. If you are still worried about this, you could do that western blot now. Enough time has passed for an accurate blot.
Sometimes people have a protein in their blood that looks similar to a herpes antibody protein and it can look equivocal on the IgG test.Terri
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You likely have another protein in your blood that is showing up on the herpes test, but the protein is unrelated to HSV. If your blot is negative, you are not infected with HSV 2.
But you need to wait 12 weeks from any concerning sexual encounter to do the testing.Terri
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Some people just always have equivocal results on this test – I suspect you are one of those. yes, you can do the blot now, for sure. Plenty of time has gone by for accuracy at this point.
Terri
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The blot does not give a number result – I’m not sure what results you got back but with a number, it is not a western blot. The blot would say positive, negative or indeterminate with no number values.
Terri
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