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Might I test positive for Herpes if I have Grover's disease

by George560, Apr 13, 2009 10:36PM
Hello, I am a 36 year old male who was diagnosed with Grover's disease 12 years ago.  The condition flucuates between being barely noticeable and very unsightly/obvious.  Whatever the case, there is always some form of the Grover's present.  

My girlfriend and I agreed to get tested for STDs recently.  To my absolute shock, I came back positive for type 1 and 2 herpes.  I have never had a lesions on my gentials and have never had a cold sore, so I was shocked to hear this news and continue to be very confused.  As I read more about herpes, it sounded similar to my grover's -- at least, in that they both involve lesions.  I understand that my blood test for herpes involved testing for antibodies that the body may be producing to fight the virus.  

At the time of my STD bloodwork, my grover's disease was very inflammed.  SO MY QUESTION IS THIS:
Is there any way that my body, in trying to suppress/fight my grover's disease, produced antibodies that could result in a positive testing for Herpes 1 and 2?  Another way of phrasing the question is whether the antibodies tested in the herpes test is specific to herpes and only produced by the body when faced by herpes.
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