low positives - confirmatory results

[gracefromHHP]

If you were tested with a type specific herpes igg blood test and had a low positive result for hsv2 ( anything under 4.0 ) and sought out confirmatory testing, what were your eventual results?

I did not seek out testing

I got another test and was negative for hsv2

I sought out testing and was positive for hsv2

I'm still waiting to test more

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[gracefromHHP]

Thanks for your participation in this poll :)  Hoping to be able to refer future posters to this so that they understand that it is well worth further testing!

grace

[MBwantstoknow]

The first test taken was a blood test it was positive and the dr said sometimes those tests say positive since in most people the herpes virus is present ((cold sores etc)) so he did a viral swab and the results were negative

[gracefromHHP]

if that's all the testing you've had done, you need to get a confirmatory blood test done. I encourage you to start a post of your own if you haven't already and we'll go into all of this in more details together. If you can get the results of your blood test to post there, even better!

grace

[gracefromHHP]

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/STDs/Confusing-Igg-Test-Results/show/771141 ; is a terrific prior post by HHH that explains better why confirming low positive results is important for more reading.

grace