Reply To: Concerned with testing accuracy and symptoms

[Helpme0000]

I got a few more follow up questions today.
Yes I actually found a clinic near me after reading your response.
My questions are
Do you recommend that I get another IGG test now that it’s been about 20 weeks to see the levels?
Do you recommend that I just go with the blot since it’s over the 12 week mark for that?
Does HSV have an affect on your period, as in become irregular or any other type of affect you may know of?
How long does it change your vaginal discharge for?
Can the bumps be very small you can barely see them?
Do they always break open and ulcer, or do they fill back up and never open if for example you were to try and pop it?
Why does the CDC do IGG & IGM tests and not the western blot if that one’s the most certain? Is it because it’s only available at the university of Washington so they don’t have a say over it?
If you use a steroid cream on HSV what would happen, does it make it worse or improve it?
If it makes it worse what does it do?
I’ve seen you say oral hsv2 shedding is less than oral hsv1. Does that include the outbreaks as well?
When I went to have the swabs done, in my previous post was that too late?
When is too soon or a swab and too late as I often get confused by the timing as I know it’s critical.
If it’s scabbed can PRC it pick it up or no?
If it’s not open can PCR pick it up after 4/5 days or no?
My urine has wbc in urine (sterile pyuria?) and no UTI. Isn’t that a sign of HSV? I haven’t had an explanation to it. It’s been going on for months now. I’m getting an ultrasound on my kidneys tomorrow.
Also had my stool checked and negative for all tests ran.