Reply To: Herpes Testing Confusion

[Terri Warren]

Yes, please pay for two more questions.

I think it is extremely unlikely that you would have a 2.6 index value from an exposure 8 days prior, yes. Extremely unlikely. I never say never – STI’s are not like that. The earliest I have seen serconversion is a 1.2 (as I recall) 10 days later.

You are looking for absolutely, I think, and I can’t give you that – only that it is highly unlikely. And there is also a reasonable chance that the 2.6 is a false positive as we have discussed. That issue should be cleared up by the western blot.

Terri