Reply To: Confused and worried

[Terri Warren]

PCR is a kind of test that is gathered in the same way that culture is but instead of growing something, like cultures do, small piece of genetic material are identified. This makes the test far more sensitive than culture.

I don’t know what it might be – skin splits from too much sex or too aggressive sex or some kind of bacterial problem. It’s just that when someone has atypical outbreak patterns (in your case very short and more frequent) I always like to be certain I’m dealing with their herpes, not something unrelated.

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Terri