October 10, 2014 at 6:36 pm #1515

Anonymous

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Thank you for your response. After posting this, I did go back to my Doctor’s office to have the sores looked at since they had changed. He thought they definitely looked like they could be from herpes. He did a swab test (I don’t know what kind) and called last night with the results. The test was negative for HSV 1 & 2. Since the test was over 6 weeks from my exposure, do you think there is any value in the negative results? I was able to talk to the girl and she confirmed that she does have herpes and says she just gets a rash from time to time. She didn’t know it could be spread with use of a condom but she got worried when it broke and didn’t want to talk about it. I am no longer seeing her and recently met somebody that I am interested in starting a relationship with. I want to make sure a am not putting her at risk so I want to hold off on any possible intimate situations (and let the sores heal).

I will get another igg test at 9 weeks (mostly for peace of mind, assuming it is still negative). Would a final confirmatory test at 12 weeks be sufficient or do you think I need to wait 16 weeks to be confident that I am not positive? The 12-16 weeks seems like a large window. What factors into when a person seroconverts? If a person has a healthy immune system would antibodies tend to show up sooner? Thank you for all of the information. You really help to inform a lot of people.