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Hello, I am a little confused about something. My girlfriend went to her gyno because she had a small irritation and feared it was cancer. The doctor told her that it was a yeast infection and took a blood sample anyway. Her results came back that she was herpes 1 positive igg 1- 1.7 Herpes 2 positive Igg2 - 3.41. The doc said to come back after her period and yeast infection were gone. He said that she had a very high level end must have recently gotten infected. We have been together for 18 months and both have been faithful. We have had occasional unprotected sex since we started dating. The first few times were in the beginning of our relationship. Neither one of us has any symptoms and I had an exam about a year ago with no +. Wouldn't one of us have seen some symptom within the last 18 months if we had it before our relationship? Is the gynecologists diagnosis correct?
you could be with a partner for a lifetime and not contract their oral and/or genital herpes. your gf really isn't a walking biohazard and you really aren't at higher risk for anything.
The chances of acquiring it if the infected partner is not on suppressive therapy and the couple is not using condoms is only about 4% per year for men. People have very long relationships in which the uninfected partner never acquires the virus. It is entirely possible that she could have it, and you would be uninfected, even after 18 months.
Just a little update. I got my results back. Negative for both 1 and 2. Now my gf is going again. Shouldn't I have atleast acquired 1 if she has both f
if your gf confirms that she does have hsv2, you will need to repeat your own herpes igg blood testing too since it was all done too early.
I went to a doctor, he said redness on groin was herpes. took blood and it was negative. sent me to dermatologist who said psoriasis. He sent me to rheumatologist who said he would test me for everything including chest X-rays because if I did have some infection in me, the medication would cause it to become stronger and possibly kill me.. It also blows my mind that if I had a blood exam and I asked I be checked for everything while i am here, herpes would not be one of those things. In about a year of monthly blood exams, I assumed that some sort if irregularity would show up.
her doctor is misinformed about what the actual numeric results mean. You absolutely can not ascertain how long someone has been infected by the actual numeric result. she is under 5 though and had no obvious symptoms to culture so if you tested negative, she needs to seek out the WB to confirm her status.
My main concern was her doctors diagnosis. From what I have read from your other posts, it seems kind if odd for him to say it is a high index. Shouldn't one of us show symptoms by now?
make sure that you were actually tested for herpes with your last std testing. it's not a part of routine std testing. If you were tested and it was negative, she should seek out a herpes WB blood test to rule out a false positive hsv2 igg.
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Also, for the first 6 months of our relationship and about 3 months prior I was using a heavy dose of humira for psoriasis. If one if us had it wouldn't my immune system being so low, cause the infection to reveal itself in someway?
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