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If you got a negative ELISA or Biokit, could you put aside the western blot? If not, I don’t think it would help you. If you could, then you should. Your choice
As I said before I think it is likely that the western blot will be indeterminate in 6 months also because nothing you have said makes me think you are seroconverting.
I personally in 32 year of practice have not seen of someone being indeterminate at 4 months and positive at 6 months, but I have read about that happening to people, yes. I have seen people who have taken antiviral therapy taking a long time to seroconvert, but you are not reporting that you have taken herpes medication.
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If you live in the US, you can get a PCR through any health care provider that uses Quest labs, they just need to look it up in their Quest test directory. I was not concerned about your symptoms because they didn’t sound herpetic to me; dry skin is not characteristic of genital herpes. If you have a blister or an ulcer in the skin, you could seek a PCR. If it would be helpful to you to have a PCR swab done of any symptom, then I think you should find a provider to have it done.
I think it is difficult for you to believe that you have no reason to believe that you have HSV 2, based on your exposure. I hope you can begin to believe that at some point. If you have HSV 2, which I don’t believe you do, it isn’t from that contact.
Terri