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I was diagnosed last month with HSV-1 (23 index value) and HSV-2 (12 index value). I want to know if the high numbers can give some indication as to when I might have gotten infected. I was in a 17 year relationship, during which I didn’t have any symptoms or notice any symptoms in my boyfriend. After we broke up, I didn’t have sex (protected) for three years and it was with an old friend who I later had unprotected sex with a year later. Since I hadn’t had sex regularly, my vagina was torn and bleed. I noticed an unusual, watery, yellow/greenish discharge almost a year later, but no sores or blisters. I have a history of yeast infections; and for breast cancer prevention, I take tamoxifen which also causes a discharge. I had unprotected sex for the first time in two years with a new partner a little over a month ago which prompted me to have the IgG test . Considering my high HSV-1 and HSV-2 index values and sex history, can I get an idea of when I might have been infected?
Thank you so much!
There is no way to know when you were infected, no. The problem is that you have no negative antibody test to use as a baseline value, so you could know, for example, I was negative in 2010 and now positive in 2015. So I know i wasn’t from someone prior to 2010, do you see what I mean here?
At what point did you have sex with the new partner in relationship to the testing, before you had sex with him?
Terri
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