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Reliability of IGG blood tests
What is the reliability of Herpes IGG blood tests?
I had unprotected sex about 3 years and did contract an STD and was given medicine to cure it. About a month after having sex I had a red spot on my penis and had a doctor look at it and they said it was a hair folicle. I then had an IGG and IGM blood test done 4 weeks after that and had an ELISA IGG herpes 1 and 2 types specific test done about 9 months later. A year later I had another red spot show up and I had and IGG herpes 2 type specific test done about 9 months after that showed up. A couple months ago I had spot that looked just like an ingrown hair, which as maybe 1 and half years after that last time something showed up, that did have pain and itching with it. The pain and itching was only there for maybe 5 days but the red spot was there 6 or 7 weeks. Even though everything I read says these test are pretty accurate and two of the IGG tests were done 9 months and 1.9 years later, which they say is a long enough time to make the accuracy higher, in the back of my mind still think I could have herpes. If it weren't for this last time, I probably wouldn't be concerned, but seeing something like this several times in past 3 years makes me wonder. I just want to get a different perspective about these tests than what I have read.
To sum up the time frame of the tests, I had an IGG and IGM blood test done after 2.5 months of having sex. I had an IGG Herpes 1 and 2 type specific test 9 months of having sex and I had an IGG Herpes type 2 specific test done 1 year and 9 months of having sex.
Below are the acutal tests I had and and I went to LabCorp to do the test.
http://www.stdweb.com/herpes-testing/herpes-type1and2-testing-herpes-igg-testing.htm
http://www.stdweb.com/herpes-testing/herpes-type2-testing.htm
I had unprotected sex about 3 years and did contract an STD and was given medicine to cure it. About a month after having sex I had a red spot on my penis and had a doctor look at it and they said it was a hair folicle. I then had an IGG and IGM blood test done 4 weeks after that and had an ELISA IGG herpes 1 and 2 types specific test done about 9 months later. A year later I had another red spot show up and I had and IGG herpes 2 type specific test done about 9 months after that showed up. A couple months ago I had spot that looked just like an ingrown hair, which as maybe 1 and half years after that last time something showed up, that did have pain and itching with it. The pain and itching was only there for maybe 5 days but the red spot was there 6 or 7 weeks. Even though everything I read says these test are pretty accurate and two of the IGG tests were done 9 months and 1.9 years later, which they say is a long enough time to make the accuracy higher, in the back of my mind still think I could have herpes. If it weren't for this last time, I probably wouldn't be concerned, but seeing something like this several times in past 3 years makes me wonder. I just want to get a different perspective about these tests than what I have read.
To sum up the time frame of the tests, I had an IGG and IGM blood test done after 2.5 months of having sex. I had an IGG Herpes 1 and 2 type specific test 9 months of having sex and I had an IGG Herpes type 2 specific test done 1 year and 9 months of having sex.
Below are the acutal tests I had and and I went to LabCorp to do the test.
http://www.stdweb.com/herpes-testing/herpes-type1and2-testing-herpes-igg-testing.htm
http://www.stdweb.com/herpes-testing/herpes-type2-testing.htm
labcorp offers the captia test which is fine to use for testing.
odds are this isn't herpes going on. continue to be seen every time you have symptoms to try to get to the bottom of this. not unusual to get ingrown hairs repeatedly so if they think that is what this looks like each time you are seen, it very well might be.
grace
odds are this isn't herpes going on. continue to be seen every time you have symptoms to try to get to the bottom of this. not unusual to get ingrown hairs repeatedly so if they think that is what this looks like each time you are seen, it very well might be.
grace
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