Test results say negative but may be positive?

Hi, I received my herpes test results after 10 weeks since my possible exposure. I have been perfectly healthy with no symptoms whatsoever. The guy, who may have exposed me, isn't sure of his status either and is really freaking me out because his results came back inconclusive and is waiting for his new results that come on Thursday (2/2/2012) the CDC is involved and I have a new and great BF and I'm just really overwhelmed/confused by what I am reading online.... MY results are as follows:

Herpes Culture -  Negative

Herpes Simplex 1 IgG - 0.47
1.10 Positive

Herpes Simplex 2 IgG - 0.10
1.10 Positive

Herpes Simplex IgM (H) - 1.59
1.10 Positive

Doctors Comments (summed up):
There are no signs of past exposure to herpes. There is however evidence of recent exposure to herpes. This test cannot determine whether it is 1 or 2. You should recheck in 2-3 months.

I understand the IgG results to be completely negative and that the little trace of herpes 2 of .10 is probably how they test, and no one can have a results of 0.00. But i have read that I should throw out the IgM results completely. Is that true? is my doctor right, that I have had a recent exposure to herpes? Is it too early to tell?

the guy also thinks that I gave the virus to him.. if that is the case, the exposure must have been 12+ weeks (and i really can't remember that far...)

Any knowledge would help right now.. I'm going crazy with all these Herpes articles...

Thank you

[axxme]

Under my results it should read:

Herpes Simplex 1 IgG - 0.47
1.10 Positive

Herpes Simplex 2 IgG - 0.10
1.10 Positive

Herpes Simplex IgM (H) - 1.59
1.10 Positive

[axxme]

ugh

[gracefromHHP]

the herpes igm test is a greatly flawed test. current cdc recommendations are that it not be drawn on adults to diagnose herpes.

your hsv1 and hsv2 igg's are both negative. Waiting 10 weeks post encounter means you didn't contract it from the partner in question. it also means you didn't have it to give it to them. No need for any further testing for you.

did you have symptoms that a lesion culture was also done?

has your new partner been tested for herpes now that it's on your mind and you are more aware of it?

grace

[axxme]

Thanks for the response!

I had a sore that hurt when touched (i noticed in the shower) for a day or two on my perineum and went it away. It looked like a scratch.. that area has been a rather itchy place from puberty, I also have very dry skin, and I apply lotion all around my lower regions because I have been known to leave scratch marks on myself, so I am thinking I scratched too hard. While I had that lesion I had no other symptoms, no itch, no sense of malaise or fever. My doc looked at it and told me that it does in fact look like a regular  scratch and if it was herpes that i would break out within a few days and that never happened.. it wasn't raised, was fleshy and pink like a healing scratch. The culture was not done when it was hurting maybe a week after.

No my partner has not been tested and has no signs from what I can tell. I really didn't want to make a big deal out of nothing.

[axxme]

I have also have had chicken pox when i was little, shingles when i was a teenager and I might be exposed to mono since my current BF has had it and I have not. (may be why my iGm is a little above positive?)

Also, I think it is great what you are doing on here, Grace. :)

[gracefromHHP]

many things make the igm herpes test falsely positive which is why it hasn't been recommended to be drawn on adults for many years now.

you've opened up the proverbial can of worms so now that you are more aware of herpes and that it's not tested for, indeed talking to your current partner is worthwhile. would be very ironic if your current partner had herpes and didn't know it.

[lulucob7280]

I had a sore on my tailbone area that hurt if I sat down.  Went to doctor she said this could be herpes. Culture came out negative,
hvs 1abI negative
his 2 ab egg 4.6 positive
hsv ab gm negativehis so is it or isn't it

[lulucob7280]

Try this again.
Sore on tailbone.
Hsv 1ab egg negative.
Hsv ab gm negative.
Hsv 2 ab egg 4.6 positive