Hello. I recently had unprotected sex with a woman who told me she was HSV2 +, but was asymptomatic for 2 yrs. However, she had just finished her period and had small abrasions on her arms due to a bike accident. I've been with only one other woman in the last few years. I became anxious 3-4 days after this recent experience when I started feeling brief 'prickly/burning' and 'muscle ache' in my penis, as well as low-grade 'burning' around my anus (this during that initial time, not since). I also experienced a few muscle aches in my inner thigh and my gluts. I have had these ongoing symptoms for two weeks and seem to be subsiding. I have, however, had none of the stereotypical prodromal symptoms of itching or burning, tingling while urinating or deficating, no fever, and from what I can tell no swollen lymph-nodes in my groin nor flu-like symptoms. Most importantly, I have not had any lesions around my genitals.
I saw my dr. 5 days after the encounter and I got the entire STI blood panel done the next day. I tested negative on HIV, chlam, gon, syph. I tested positive for HSV 1, which I knew I had but had never been blood tested for. I haven't had an outbreak for years. For HSV2, I tested negative on the IgM, but borderline negative on IgG with a .91 reading. My dr. suggested a re-test at the 2-wk mark to see if the IgG reading goes up - which may indicate that I have the hsv-2 virus.
My questions are:
1) Is it possible that I took the initial IgM/IgG tests too soon to detect any antibodies? I understand that a more accurate IgG test would be done at the 3-month mark...
2) What does the IgG .91 reading mean if I ultimately don't have any HSV-2 antibodies?
3) How quickly/rapidly would an IgG antibody count increase if one is infected?
4) What impact, if any, would my + HSV1 IgG have on my HSV2 IgG blood reading? i.e. would my + hsv1 confuse the IgG reading, making it either false positive or false negative?
Thank you.