October 23, 2014 at 5:18 pm #1571

Participant

Hi Terri,

Just paid for follow up questions.

My medical team is trying to dissuade me from taking Herpes test again. I continue to struggle with these daily symptoms. Here is their response:

“As an organization, we tend to steer away from blood testing for Herpes as it often causes more confusion and there are false positives. Additionally, a true positive on a blood test may be from a previous infection or history, and that would
be confusing for the patient that has a rash currently – does that make sense?”

What do you think of this? How can you not test for it, do you just let people go on and wait for a blister? I definitely want to take the Western Blot. Quest Labs offers this, no?

When thinking about my case, I wanted to say when I describe the symptoms, they hit me in waves. I’ll start to feel run down all of a sudden, followed by tingling in my feet and genital area, followed by a dry cough, itchy eyes, warm temperature, itching, and light sneezing. Like I was mentioning, I use Ibuprofen to provide short term relief of the symptoms. I also started to try Monolaurin which also seems to be providing relief.

What else could this be if it is not Herpes? The ongoing symptoms are negatively effecting my daily life. I’m trying to find treatment, it’s been 14 weeks since exposure, approaching 8 weeks since outbreak.

Thank you for your care and advice.