test results-seems likely

[BB6]

Sorry if I'm not doing this right by posting another question here.  I didn't know if anyone would answer on my old post.  My tests came back like this:

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1) .16  and 2) .67  

This was after about 40 days...

Type 2 was at .17 before...which means by 4 mos I should have a positive, right?  Seems like the antibodies are building...


I ask, because my symptoms were classic minus the blisters.  I think I was in denial, and everybody was trying to be super cool and make me feel better by saying that it wasn't herpes.

[petal130]

Negative is negative with anything under 0.9. You are negative based on those results. If you've only waited 40 days, it is premature to be certain. 4 months is when you can pretty much put it to bed if it's negative.

And no, a higher or fluctuating number doesn't mean anything. It has to do with the body's immune response it makes against a virus at that point in time, and that differs from person to person.

Nobody was being super cool, because nobody can give a visual diagnosis. Only proper testing can diagnose herpes - of which you've had.

[treesnake]

That does not mean that at all. The test varies and anything in the negative range is negative. Now if you have a third test in a month and it is positive, then you have a pattern there. Just have to wait and see, but right now you can't say that for sure.