Reply To: Testing and Risk Assesment

[memphis]

Alright, well i still don’t know what to do…

If I were your patient, you would not reccomend testing, but your personal opinion is that I should…
I’m going to ask my doctor what they think, and proceed from there I guess.

I had post nasal drip before any other symptoms started, so I guess that probably wouldn’t signify any sort of genital infection. My glands in the groin that I though were swollen were not tender at all, and were not any larger than they are right now. I think I may just be working myself up for nothing. I’d hate to go through the testing, get a low HSV-2 positive, and then deal with the trauma of verifying those resluts. If I do decide to test, should I wait anyhow, as it’s only been 9.5 weeks, and I am already HSV-1+? I know having a positive igg of 6.2 is pretty definitive, but is it possible that the lab I went to might be incompitent, and has screwed something up? I guess the real questin is, can a lab mishandle things poorly enough to produce a false-positve that high?

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by memphis.