Igg testing and Valtrex

[Rainbow21]

Hi Terri,
So I have anxiety towards hsv ever since I was diagnosed with genital typeb1 from a previous relationship had no idea it was possible. I then had protected sex about a year and a half later and gave oral two days later my lip was swollen and it was right on the inside of my lip and had a burning sensation I put ice on it and just kept applying normal chapstick for moisture it was gone in less than a week my neck glands weren’t swollen or anything other than my lip feeling that way being swollen and looking like a canker sore but was so close to the tip if lip it was on the outside a tiny bit to be visible. It is possible that I contracted oral
Hsv 1 at the time of Genital as he had a healing cold sore and we weren’t careful
due to lack of knowledge. Yet I never had a cold sore since then or previous and I was diagnosed genitally with a pcr swab. Due to my anxiety I kept overthinking my lip and started freaking out I may have gotten type 2 orally but it seemed far fetched and my doctor didn’t want to swab it because they say well you already have the oral kind as they don’t understand the concern. So I started daily suppressives as kind of a piece of mind after my lip because I never have had any issues with my Genital hsv 1 I use condoms and have never had an issue. But I routinely get a blood test on my yearly and I had one done and they called telling me I had been exposed to hsv 2 as I had a positive igm and a negative igg and both positive for type one which I knew. This is the second time I have now gone through this because I had them do this before after I had hsv 1 and it turned out it was a cross reaction of igm from my type one but now that I was on suppression during my only encounter without a condom which was only due to it breaking I don’t now what to believe. I was only on suppressives for maybe 2 months stopped for close to two months and got tested came back <.92 should I retest?

[Terri Warren]

The IgM test sucks. Many many false positives – in my experience, about 90% of positive IgM tests are false positives. You only want to pay attention to the IgG results.

Yes, you could have acquired HSV 1 orally at the same time you acquired it genitally.

I do not think you need to redo the testing with a .92 – you are just barely in the equivocal range. Have you recently had a new partner you are concerned about?

Terri

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