Reply To: Herpes Testing Confusion

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Thank you Terri, that is helpful and what I thought regarding too high at 8 days especially with no outbreak and being a primary outbreak. I know that some people at asymptomatic, but I am vigilant about checking and I was during the prior period back in 2011. From the information I read on medhelp, to have a single encounter, have NO symptoms or lesions and test low negative at 13 weeks seems statistically almost impossible to have gotten it from that encounter. And to have no symptoms or outbreaks of any kind while being vigilant for the past almost 4 years. I don’t want to get my hopes up, but statistically seems a lot more probable of a false positive. I did the blood work today for the WB. I know this will only confirm I did not have it previously and will not mean I didn’t get it from this most recent encounter. If it is negative I will test again. From what I have read, 13 weeks with no symptoms from a single exposure is pretty definitive negative on the igg. especially low negative. Would you expect the number to be higher if it was from a previous infection???? I talked to a clinician at the virology lab today and they said they had never heard of someone having seroconversion is 8 days especially with NO symptoms or lesions with a primary and would never have a 2.6. They also said I would have to wait at least 8 weeks for another igg if there was something causing a false positive to clear my system. I know people are asymptomatic, but wouldn’t you expect someone with a true primary infection to have some symptoms or lesions??? Even if they are mild. Your thoughts and comments are truly appreciated. Thank you for all you do to help people dealing with these kinds of situations.