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[yellowfin10]

I have been married for 6 1/2 years and have never been unfaithful to my wife outside our marriage.  However prior to our marriage I had sexual relations with many of women.  My wife was a virgin when we married and she has not been unfaithful as well.  We have two children that are 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 who were both born vaginally and healthy.  Outside of yesterday when she was told the news by an Igg test, including having two uneventful pregnancies and never being told she has genital herpes, neither of us has no indication or tests that we have herpes.  She apparently has a genital lesion Trying to think back I am trying to remember ever having an outbreak and it is tough to say for certain.  I can remember having various jock itch irritations or an occasional bump in my groin, but really nothing that significant to make me even think that was a possibilty.  So my questions are, obviously I msut have given it to her, which I feel terible about, but could she really have her first onset after being married for 6 1/2 years and after having two children when it was not detected.  Also, wouldnt her ob/gyn doctor have detected this during the previous pregnancy work ups.  If she jsut contracted herpes now, how can she not have contracted it when she became pregnant.  Wouldnt she have obtained the virus through getting pregnant?  Could she have got pregnant from me, not contract the virus and have the two healthy children or is there something else going on

[yellowfin10]

As it turns out she tested positive for HSV Igg < 5.  Before she got thsi result the medcial assitant told her she had tested positive for genital hepes and that they were waiting for additional testing.  this caused alot of confusion and stress for us.  My wife ahd me go to a std clinic and I got a rapid hsvII biokit test which was negative.  My wife had me do this because we assumed she had HSVII and her gyn office wasnt clarifying things.  The next day she went down to their office and I had her right down the tests which was negative as well for HSVII and only positive for HSV II.  In addition this vaginal lesion she had she thinks was a "pimple"  It only lasted for two days and it was gone.  So with all this being said what do I do now

[Terri Warren, RN, Adult Nurse Practitioner]

It is possible that she has been infected for years and didn't know it.  OB providers normally do not test for herpes during pregnancy, though you could check with yours to be sure.  And yes, she could have been infected for years and didn't know it until recently and yes, you could have just recently infected her, as well, though that is less likely since she has a positive antibody test.

Could you clarify some things for me please?  Did she have a positive swab test as well as a positive antibody test, and if yes, what type was found?  And you could get me the value on the positive ELISA test?  It is called an index value.  If you can tell me those things, I can help you more.
Terri

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