Positive on HSV2 test score 1.71

[Kamala]

Just got tested for STD’s and to my astonishment was positive for HSV2 with score of 1.71. Also positive HSV1 with score of 30.1

Was married 25 years 4 sex partners in 35 years.

I have NEVER had any symptoms of genital herpes ..no sores pimples warts etc.

Into Healthy living and eating…. not wanting to take anti virals for rest of my life.

Have new wonderful man in my life. He tested negative. He knows about my score and wants to be in my life.

What can I do? I am in total astonishment that I may have his disease with out symptoms.

I want to protect the relationship but… as mentioned taking anti virals forever… not anything I wish to begin.

Thanks

[Terri Warren]

So at 1.71, there is about a 75% chance this is a false positive. You need confirmatory testing with a herpes western blot. In the US, it is done only a the University of Washington. Our clinic can order that test for you to be drawn at a lab near you or the University can send you a test kit, you have it drawn by your provider, spun down and you ship it back. Either works. Please get this done either say ASAP to set your mind at rest, or worse case scenario begin to take some precautions to protect your partner as best you can.

Terri

[Kamala]

How do I get U of W to send me the test? Can I do this anonymously so that I dont have to go to primary care physician ?

Thank you

Kamala

[Terri Warren]

I don’t know that you can do this anonymously but you don’t have to go through your primary care provider to do it. If you opt to order the test directly from UW, you will need to find someone to draw your blood, spin it down and then you will need to ship it back. If you don’t want your primary care provider to know, you’ll need to have an alternative someone to draw and ship it. If you do it through our clinic, we just transmit the order to a Quest lab near you, they will draw your blood and ship it for you to UW. All you do is show up at the Quest lab. But either one works. Both need identification however. We can’t produce an official record of a test result without someone’s proven name attached to the test.

Terri

[Kamala]

Out of curiosity: Why would there be so many false positives with labcorp scores that you would suggest my oddso f having false positive is 75% ( which gives me hope). Is it because I have high HSV1 score, or is it because I have never had any outbreaks … or is there another reason that you believe that there is a 75% chance that this is a false positive?

[Terri Warren]

We actually don’t know why people in this low positive range have false positive both on the quest and labcorp tests (and others as well). And in our recent study we did not find a correlation between having HSV 1 and having false positives. It is just is. And it is the fault of the test, not something about you. It just gets confused sometimes on the low positives. Thankfully, in our population over 7 years of data collection, this only happens to 5.5% of people who take the test. Of those, half of those between 1.1 and 3.5 are false positives. I hope you will pursue the western blot one way or another.

Terri

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