It would be best to be off antivirals for 12 weeks at some point after acquiring an HSV 1 infection – it doesn’t have to be now. I would strongly advise against any other confirmatory tests – we are seeing lots of false positive inhibition assays now, which is a problem.
The thing is, you could have acquired HSV 1 in childhood and had no symptoms and could be positive for it on a blot.
Terri