October 16, 2014 at 9:47 pm #1520

Participant

Hi Terri,

First, thank you for all of your help!!! You provide a great service. I went and paid for additional questions. Wanted to give an update. First igg test positive for hsv2 at 2.6 8 days after sexual encounter. Took another igg test 11 days after encounter positive hsv2 at 2.9. Took another igg test at 21 days positive at 2.8. Took Western Blot at 17 days post encounter negative for HSV 1/2!!! Got the results today 35 days post encounter. No symptoms or lesions 35 days post encounter. I will do some more testing in a couple of months, but feeling very good about the WB results. Since it is extremely unlikely to serconvert with NO symptoms or lesions in 8 days post exposure and still have had no symptoms or lesions think it was just a false positive in the low range. Please let me know your thoughts, but feeling much better after the results today. If had already seroconverted in the 2.6 range 8 days and 2.9 range 11 days after exposure, most likely WB would have detected at 17 days. That is a fairly high reading even if still in the low positive range.

Thank you!!!