HSV-1 and HSV-2 high index values

[Dee]

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!

[Terri Warren]

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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