Reply To: Confused about test results

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Thank you for your response.

The reason I suspected that I may have contracted GHSV1 was because on day 12 after becoming intimate with my partner I developed pretty severe symptoms. Though there were no lesions I had red swollen painful labia, vaginal discharge and later on neuralgia. These symptoms seemed worse than just having BV which I’d had before but never like that. So that is why I went and got tested for HSV1. I am going to go ahead and get a Western Blot and still hoping it will turn out negative but have to adjust to the possibility I may be the one in 50,000 that you referred to which is pretty depressing.

If my partner gets either a Western Blot or Quest’s HSV2 confirmation test does he need to be off of his antivirals for 12 weeks prior to either of these tests for best accuracy or just for the Western Blot?

Thank you again!