Reply To: Western Blot

[blackhole22]

Hi Terri,

What is the probability that a single lesion not on the penis can appear on the first outbreak? Can you put a probability number to it.

I am also scared if I have passed the infection to my eyes too because one month post exposure, I was having redness in my eye (not extreme redness but few red branches). I also had eye discharges (white/yellow mucus discharge) consistently at the same time and there was a very very small stye on lower eye lid. It was colorless and came in right eye and vanished next day and 1 week later it came in left eye and vanished in 1 day. It doesn’t look like a lesion. Initially I thought this was happening because of my binge drinking and lack of sleeplessness but then I was thinking whether it could be eye herpes.
Eye discharge and redness have reduced now though not gone completely.
My question is in the event this turns out eye herpes and I meet a doctor, will he be able to diagnose it because at that time there would be no infection right? How do doctors identify eye herpes if there is no infection at that moment? Will this cause any scarring or do I need to wait for recurring breakout to confirm it?

Regarding WB test, Fedex agreed to ship the blood in 3 days time to US if there is no delay in custom clearance. I really need to do WB. I hope 13 weeks post exposure is sufficient right or do I need to wait till 16 weeks ?
Can you let me know further proceedings for WB test. I don’t have a doctor who can type me anything if that is required. Lab has agreed only to spin the blood for me. How do I go about packaging. Should we maintain any temperature consistency and if so how to do it ?
Video consulting with you is available on all days?