Hmmmm. Interesting. And all of these questions and $20 could have been saved, just by asking for typing at the time of the culture as the CDC recommends!
I suspect that your doctor is correct but your HSV 2 level is a little higher than we sometimes see and your HSV 1 is in the low positive range and would normally need confirmation if that was our only piece of evidence. However ,with the positive swab test, I think it is likely that you have genital HSV 1. However, if you were my patient, I would probably run a western blot just to be sure with the antiviral therapy in for a couple of weeks.
I would guess that with 90% certainty, you have genital HSV 1. There are just a couple little things in here that make me very slightly less certain.
Terri