Good morning,
Both of your HSV tests are both certainly positive. The cutoff value for when we want to confirm the testing is 3.5 and as you can see, your HSV 2 is above 4. I will say that in the past year I have had three patients with value above 4.0 that have NOT confirmed when tested by western blot, the gold standard for herpes testing. Recently, I had a person with a 5.4 NOT confirm with western blot. That is highly unusual, however. Have you had any symptoms of genital herpes? A person who is HSV 1 positive and then acquires HSV 2 is less likely to develop symptoms genitally.
I”m so sorry that you first experience with telling someone about herpes went so poorly. We all bring some things to the table in relationships that aren’t terrific; I’m sure he has some too, they just aren’t as “out” there immediately, but they are there! Please don’t get too discouraged as I think he is the exception rather than the rule.
You may be outside the US since the title of your post is about translation, but if you want to do a western blot just to be sure, let me know.
Terri