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Herpes Blood Test question?
by BDL84, Jun 27, 2008 04:23PM
Ok my Baby's Father might have HSV-2 cuz of sores he has on his genitals but his results wont be back till next week. I was with him 2 weeks ago tomorrow but i have no sores as far as i know so i called the Doc. office for the Blood Test an they told me i had to wait till next week to take it cuz its gotta be 2 weeks after possible exposure or something. Ive been reading on different internet sites that even if you have HSV it wont even show up positive till 3 months after exposure. So why would the Doc. office tell me to come in next week if i could just end up getting a false negative? they also told me they have to specially order this kind of Blood Test. So someone please help me out here.
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Also be on the lookout for any unusual genital symptoms, like sores or blisters or irritation. If you notice anything, get seen and get it cultured.
If you've never been tested for herpes ever, you might want to go in and get the HSV1 and HSV2 blood test just to see where you are right now. Then you can retest again later for this recent possible exposure. The one you want is IgG Herpeselect test.