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Confused about Herpes symtoms vs. IgG results
Nov 25, 2009 11:09AM in the STDs Expert Forum
Most newly infected people have positive tests within 9 weeks. Combining the low risk of the exposure, your lack of herpes symptoms, plus the negative blood test results, you can indeed be 100% certain you did not catch HSV-1. I suggest you stop testing, or at least follow the advice of a health professional about it.
Molluscum, herpes, genital warts, or nothing to worry about?
Nov 25, 2009 11:05AM in the STDs Expert Forum
This further description makes MC less likely. Molluscum lesions generally are painless. And if you really had MC before, you probably are immune to it now and could not have caught it again. Most likely this will turn out to be no STD at all and entirely unrelated to your sexual exposures and practices. Feel free to report the diagnosis after you are exa...
Do I need to get tested
Nov 25, 2009 11:02AM in the STDs Expert Forum
Congratulations on getting vaccinated. That should have settled all concerns you might ever have about HPV so now I cannot tell why you asked the question in the first place, and it means you have little or no risk of ever getting genital warts. It seems you are abnomrally obsessed with HPV. If you continue to feel the fears that obviously are driving all ...
Confused about Herpes symtoms vs. IgG results
Nov 25, 2009 12:18AM in the STDs Expert Forum
Welcome to the STD forum. First comment, in response to the opening line about "possible exposure to HSV-1 or 2 by recieving oral sex": Receiving oral sex carries no risk of HSV-2, only HSV-1. Second comment: IgM test results are always irrelevant. The test is inherently unreliable, should never be done -- and when it is done, the result is...
Molluscum, herpes, genital warts, or nothing to worry about?
Nov 25, 2009 12:09AM in the STDs Expert Forum
I saw this comment before I replied above. It does not change my opinion or advice. Your frequent masturbation probably has nothing to do with the skin lesion.
HSV-2 Blood Test
Nov 25, 2009 12:08AM in the STDs Expert Forum
Welcome to the forum. Directly to the specific questions: 1) Most likely you indeed are infected with HSV-2. However, it is not certain. Although ELISA results over 0.9 are technically positive, some results below 3.5 are falsely positive. There is a somewhat complicated relationship with HSV-1; your negative HSV-1 result makes it more likely your HSV-2...