Reply To: Determining false negatives

[Puzzled12]

Thanks Terri – apologies but I’m slightly confused…

So any score on IgG results are essentially questionable as 30% of the time they are completely inaccurate and unreliable?

What you’re saying is it’s more a test failing completely and not picking up antibodies at all rather than it getting a slightly inaccurate scoring – for example someone with an IgG of 0.181 could have as much a chance of a false negative as someone with a 0.899?

I’m in the UK so not sure how feasible / affordable the Western Blot is or if it is that necessary as I’ve not had any genital symptoms in over 2 months since the encounter.

As an alternative, should I keep doing IgG tests weekly up to 12 weeks at different places here in the UK to ensure I’m getting as wider group of sources for a more reliable means test of IgG results?

Also, would you say i should avoid intercourse whilst I await the 12 weeks cut off? What are the chances of passing it on if i do have gHSV1?

Many thanks