March 17, 2015 at 12:14 am #5611

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Hey Terri.

I got another lab test done and results came back today. My GF also got re-tested

To recap: both of us had exposures in early December.

Her Results both Negative for HSV-1 & HSV-2.

My results came back negative for HSV-2 and positive for HSV-1 at a value of 1.10. I got testing done back in Late January and the results were the same except HSV-1 was at .99 instead of 1.10. So a equivocal result followed by basically another equivocal result.

So what’s the deal? I know that HSV-1 tests missed 10-20% of cases but what are the chances of it showing almost identical values back to back?

Does the small difference in numbers from January to March mean anything? Or it is pretty much negligible?