February 28, 2015 at 9:34 pm #5265

Participant

Hi Nurse Warren,

I’ve ordered the Western Blot test, which I will take in a month. I had tried to put this out of my head until then, but for the past week I’ve been sick with a cold, and today I noticed a small cut in the same area that my doctor had swabbed back in December. I can’t tell whether this is an outbreak or a small tear from a yeast infection. I have been feeling under the weather and a bit itchy since my cold started, and my diet has been especially poor over the past two weeks, so I’m wondering if this is a symptom of a yeast infection or another OB. In HSV positive individuals, do lesions usually occur in the same place during outbreaks? In your experience, do many people have outbreaks that consist of a single tear or paper cut-like lesion?

A few more questions: in your experience, have people often tested positive for HSV even if their partners have tested negative? My partner tested negative, so I’m having trouble reconciling his negative diagnosis with my potential positive one. And is it possible to arrange to have the Western Blot done in Florida? Like I said, I have the test scheduled a month from now, which will be 18 weeks after exposure. I’ll be in Florida in two weeks—which will be 16 weeks post-exposure—and would love to test earlier, if possible.

Thanks so much!