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Hi Grace, no they really didn't answer my question regarding the Western Blot and how it tests and what it tests for. I'm trying to figure out if I should even do it or if I could get another false/positive to the HSV2.
I answered your question already on webmd under my betsyb1967 nickname. I am not about to go into exact details about why the WB is different - that would take about 20 minutes of typing. Knowing that it looks into more of the igg response than the other blood tests do is adequate. If you require more details then I encourage you to call the U of washington lab yourself and ask them personally. They get paid to go into that much detail for folks as part of their job. I also responded on the webmd livingAdvanced care directives day to day board this morning to your question there and was pretty frank about what are the next steps you need to take.
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