worried abotu herpes results

hello people

i hope u r all fine.

i am a male of 22 years.

i had a possible exposure to herpes virus about four and a half months ago(4.5 months)... there is only type non specific tests available in my country...

my results at 3 months were 0.4 for IGG...positive being over 0.9
at 4.5 months: IGG was 0.63... positive being over 0.90

the girl was herpes negative at the time we had encounter... she had tested the same way.. unfortunately i have lost contact with her...

all of the tests used ELISA method... do i have anything to worry about? can i be reassured that i dont have herpes???

[gracefromHHP]

there are type specific tests available everywhere just doctors don't know how to order them.

your herpes igg's are negative and odds are you don't have genital herpes.

grace

[CJC2011]

I think your 4.5 month test is at least 90-95% accurate.  What helped me a lot was adding up all of the percentages.  The risk of being infected in a one time, protected encounter being around 1:1000, figure at least 50:50 to have some sort of identifiable symptoms of primary infection, plus the low chances 5% of a false negative test and you're talking odds of somewhere around 1:40000 if it was a one time encounter.  I know that's not scientific, but it helps.  I'm not completely over my unwarranted paranoia either, but it's getting better.  

[worried19031989]

hello there

if i get a herpes type specific test, will the result be conclusive at this time?

i never had lesions..but i did have some intense itch that even break my sleep at night.... i had some red rash which i tried to pop and caused injury.. the ones which were left had disappeared by themselves... the groin itch is recurrent and occurs around every week...  will that be indicative of anything as herpes?

please help me... im worried and have exams coming up...but this is eating up my head!

[gracefromHHP]

you have no reason for more testing. it's time to let this go.

just groin itch is probably either normal itching or jock itch going on.