Reply To: HSV 1

[Betty]

I had negative results for over two years. It has been a year and a half since I was last tested by Western Blot. My doc is having my blood drawn again for testing I have not had anything that a doctor would culture. A few years ago I had white bumps on a hyper red irritated spot on my genitalia.,Two days later when I saw my doc she just saw a hyper red spot with a white streak and said it was not herpes until she saw the IgM a few days later. She had my blood tested a few times. The typing blood tests were always clearly negative. Even the western blot taken after 28 months from initial symptoms was negative. The problem had been that for two years a doctor said I had it and then retracted her statement. She never took a culture. A year after initial symptoms, the rash returned. There were white bumps without the hyper red skin but I did not know I should have had a culture done. My doc who was a gynecologist said she did not know that a person could have negative blood work but a positive culture. In the meanwhile, I developed full body parensthesia. It is a mystery illness. Can you tell me if your nine patients had type one or type two and if they developed other unusual symptoms?