Reply To: Confusing test results

[Terri Warren]

The combined IgG test has, in my experience, false positives that are more frequent than the individual type specific tests (i.e., HSV 1 and HSV 2 separately). The IgM should be ignored completely and according to the CDC STD treatment guidelines should not be done at all. Your HSV 2 IgG negative is a little higher than we normally see. This may have absolutely no significance at all and you have waited long enough for an accurate test to be done. It sounds like the change between the two results is not significant either. Have you taken any antiviral medicine?

Terri