Please read about IgM

[MaryJo44]

This is not a question.  This is a reply to the multiple posts I have read on this site
regarding testing for HSV2.  After dating a guy for several months, he finally broke down
and told me he had HSV2.  I freaked out and went to the doctor for tests the next week.
I tested HSV1 (oral, cold sores) positive, HSV2 negative (not detected) on early detection IgG.  
An IgM was run as well indicating a high positive result.  The counselor I talked with said that it
was very unlikely that the HSV1 from childhood would produce such a high positive now
and that it probably meant a recent infection of HSV2 and that I would have to wait 90 -
120 days to have another HSV2 IgG run.  

For 3 1/2 months, I have thought that I surely was infected.  I have lost weight, couldn't sleep,
almost could think of little else other than I was now HSV2 positive.  I have broken out in hives
and psoriasis all over my body and every shaving bump from bikini prep, tingle or itch has set
me over the edge.  This week I got the final results.  HSV2 IgG negative.

I want everyone who reads this to believe everything on this site about the IgM . . . . do not
for any reason submit yourself to this especially if you already know you have HSV1.  I
have survived 100 + days of agony and if I can do any good from my experience, I want to
tell my story.  HSV1 reactivates during illness, stress, menstruation, etc. and can produce a
positive IgM at any time.  And from other posts, an IgM is often falsely positive.  

I have a graduate degree in Statistics.  It angers me that there is not enough information
out there about the reliability of IgM other than this site.  I will praise this site forever because
you did at least give me hope.  HOPE

DO NOT EVER TAKE AN IGM for HSV2.  

MaryJo