Welcome to the STD forum.
You had an accurate response from gracefromHPP on the herpes community forum 3 weeks ago.
Your gynecologist is mistaken in her interpretation of your tests (or you misunderstood her -- but that doesn't sound likely). The IgM HSV tests are useless. All health professionals are taught that for most infections (not just HSV) IgM antibody appears first, followed by IgG, and that IgM antibody then goes away. Therefore, positive IgM indicates a recent infection. It's a nice theory, but there are lots of exceptions -- and for HSV, the exceptions are extremely common. Some people with new infections don't develop IgM antibody, and often IgM persists or reappears in people with chronic HSV-2 infections. More important (and the issue in your case), false positive results are very common.
For these reasons, herpes experts and STD clinics, i.e. professionals who really understand herpes, never order IgM tests and always ignore the results when they are done. That is what you and your doctor need to do. Only the IgG HSV tests are useful. (There are a bunch of not-very-good reasons that labs still do such tests -- I won't go into them here, however.)
And your HSV IgG results are clearly negative. Many results that technically are positive (over 1.1) but under 3.5 are false -- so your initial result was suspect of being false positive. The clearly negative repeat test confirms that interpretation. If you had a new HSV-2 infection, the second test would have had a bigger number than the first.
The problems with HSV IgM testing and interpretation of the IgG results have been discussed in great detail and many times. Use this forum's search link; you can find literally hundreds of threads. You may want to discuss this with your gynecologist; you could print out this discussion for her. In case she wants an entree into the medical literature about it, she can look for author name Rhoda Morrow, PhD for lots of sophisticated information.
Bottom line: Neither you nor your partner has HSV-2. Congratulations!
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
Thank you so much for the quick response and very good news.
I just wanted to let you know that I had spoken with my Dr. in regards to what Gracefromhpp said a few weeks ago. The Dr. was adamant that she was correct in her diagnosis. That is why I returned here for answers again.
Thanks again for the information. It was very clear and direct and made complete sense. Should I ever have one of these tests again I will stick with Igg only.
I hope this post helps others in the future also who are unsure of their results and seeking answers.