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i’ve never had herpes symptoms that i’m aware of at all, and yet i just got a phone call on a friday evening that regular STI and HIV testing at an urgent care showed i was positive for HSV-2 (2.01 on an IGG test…it looks like they didn’t test me for HSV-1). i’m in a full blown panic. i’m gay (a bottom if that affects risk or anything) and i’ve been reading online about how HSV-2 and HIV can feed off each other. i’ve been on prep for years, and this is the most i’ve ever worried about HIV in a long, long time. furthermore, since i did test at a 0.06 a month ago, i’m guessing i was exposed at some point in september. i did have a few casual sex partners. but i have friends who have 5 partners a week and have never seemed to have this issue, making me feel very ashamed and like crap…like sex is going to be a big thing for the rest of my life because of one month of the life like the ones so many of my loved ones live always. to make things worse, in the last two weeks i recently started something that seems to be turning into ~something~, and we literally just had sex for the first time last night. i don’t know if i run to tell him now or wait until i have more information. i would hate to ruin his weekend as well if i don’t need to. either way i’m in tears because i feel like no matter when i tell him, this is going to ruin the first potential relationship i’ve been excited about in years. but again, some things i’m reading online say most doctors don’t even believe in using HSV blood tests in the absence of symptoms (i didn’t even realize they were testing me for herpes). i just don’t know how panicked i should be. the urgent care doctor made it sound like potentially nothing or potentially very serious (saying “at least it’s not fatal” at one point). i’m sure he meant well, but i don’t know what to do. i just moved to a new place and am very far from my usual primary care doctor (and haven’t found a new one here yet)
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This may well be a false positive as it is a low positive, but it could also represent a new infection. have you used condoms with encounters when you were bottom with anal sex? If yes, when was the most recent time?
Terri
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