well, only 5.5% of patients who get an antibody screen fall into the low positive category. And of those half confirm as positive. A very small portion is indeterminate. In my opinion, it is far better for most people to know they are firmly positive or negative for HSV 2 than to not have anyone test because a few people fall into this difficult position. Just my thoughts on the topic.
Sometimes we see a change after 16 weeks (UW’s recommendation to retest in 16 weeks) but rarely. Usually it stays indeterminate. We feel there is a cellular protein that some people just have normally that is similar enough to the ones the antibody test is looking for that is tripping the test artificially. Does that help?
Terri