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I just got my results from LabCorp as follow:

Igm <.90    Negative


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IgG 1    0.90 pos      My Result is 1.87 +

IgG 2 <0.90 Negative

Question: is it false positive?
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You should immediately dump any potential partner who believes HSV1 is "going to be an issue." That's laughable.
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101028 tn?1419603004
Unfortunately many things that sound good in the lab, don't work in humans.  Only time and years and years more of research into this will provide us with answers as to its usefulness.  

grace
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Is this good news??

Researchers at the University of Florida have made a hammerhead ribozyme that targets and cleaves the mRNA of essential genes in HSV-1. The hammerhead which targets the mRNA of the UL20 gene greatly reduced the level of HSV-1 ocular infection in rabbits and reduced the viral yield in vivo.[35]



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101028 tn?1419603004
I think you don' t know enough about hsv1 here. Most adults have it. It's incredibly common.  Not many of us make it to the old folks home without hsv1 orally.  It won't keep you from getting married by no means.

just lip swelling could be many things. I'd consult your provider for further work up.  No reason to doubt that you have hsv1, just reason to wonder if these symptoms are due to it.

grace
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2 Years ago I was Negative for both Igm igg1 and igg2.
Now:
IgG 2 Negative
IgG 1 Positive 1.87
Igm I/II Negative

My lower lip is swelling from inside sometime but no lesions or sores. It just bothers me that I was positive. Cant take it back to become negative.

I just want to get married and this is going to be an issue!!!!!!

How can I get married with Positive results??? I wanna know if there is a possibility that this could be a false positive Results from Focus Tech HerpeSelect??
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101028 tn?1419603004
So your hsv1 igg was 1.87.  What was your hsv2 igg?

No real reason to suspect that a hsv1 igg is falsely positive - that doesn't seem to be as much of an issue with hsv1 as it is with hsv2.  Most adults have hsv1 so it's not surprising that you would test +.

grace
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