alright thank you for your help
swab test = lesion culture
even the best blood tests still miss 1 out of every 10 hsv1 infections. if you have hsv1 genitally, the lesion culture hopefully will pick up on it.
if this lesion culture is negative and you had the proper igg blood testing done a few months after sex, time for a dermatologist to find out what is going on because it's very unlikely to be herpes.
grace
I understand i think what lesion is, but the blood works betwee the occurences came negative, and i didnt have sex or oral sex or anything other than kissing in between..
it doesn't make sense..
i don't know what a lesion culture is, and from the first blood and swab test to now i haven't had sexual activities with genital area to now
and it happened less than a year but more than a couple of months after having sex the first occurence
and are you saying that it probably could be herpes then :( lol.. ?
lesion cultures have a high false negative rate so you really can't rely on negative culture results from just 1 culture.
how long after you had last had sex did you have the igg blood test done? do you have a regular partner and if so, have they been tested yet?
grace
this time they did a swab test to see if it is herpes, even though the blood test and the other swab test showed negative for everything
shingles doesn't reoccur for you to be getting shingles repeatedly.
what testing did they do on you when you were seen this last time with symptoms?
grace
I've done pretty sure everything possible for stds or whatever the doctors all checked off, i'm pretty sure it said negative on everything and yeah i do have shingles that is confirmed, but on the swab last time said it wasn't shingles, or herpes
what testing have you had done so far?
zovirax ointment is ineffective on genital herpes recurrences.
grace