Being on antivirals for 1 year & having hsv1 already

[Roadkill64]

Good Morning!
I contracted GHSV1 11/2020 – Swab test positive. IGG .2 so new infection. I took antivirals for a year and got off of them about 6 weeks before being retested by blood .4 – 10/2021 (reason for retest was to see where my antibodies where at.) Retested again 5/2023 now I show positive 1.2 for the antibodies. I read shedding after 2 years is 1.3% of days – do I fall in this category or did I lose a year being on the antivirals/

Study out of UW – taken from their research article:
They enrolled 82 men and women who had been diagnosed with their first episode of genital HSV-1 infection. Fifty-four (66%) were women and 28 (34%) were men. Their ages ranged from 16 to 64 years, with a median age of 26. Antibody studies indicated that about half of the participants had been infected with HSV-1 before.

It’s the last sentence that I’m questioning. If the people in the study were first episode GHSV1 how is it that half the participants already had antibodies for HSV-1 before?

I thought that once someone has hsv1 in one location on their body it is highly unlikey that they would get the virus in a new location?

This seems to contradict everything else I have read??

Thanks for your time

[Terri Warren]

They were antibody positive because they were previously infected and didn’t realize it. It’s really pretty simple. It is still unlikely that they acquired HSV 1 in a new location but rather, they didn’t realize when they were first infected with genital HSV 1.

Terri

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