Herpes and White Blood Cells

[stevesteverson]

I recently thought that I had a UTI and read up on the possibility of Ghonoria and Clamydia, and immediately went to the doctor for testing. My urine showed no white blood cells and the doctor said it was unlikely that I had and STD. A couple days later my labs came back and I did in fact have Clamydia, so I got my medicine from the Pharmacy. The doctor that called me on the phone , a different doctor than I had seen told me when I asked , that It was unlikely that I had Herpes as well. I have never had a symptom or a sore, and am going to get tested for everything but needless to say in the meantime I am going a little nuts with wonder. My question is what is the likelihood I could have Herpes 2 with no white blood cells in my urine and never having any symptoms? I will be glad when this is all over. And help is appreciated. Thanks!

[Fleetwood20]

That's usually after infection, at infection the chances of symptoms are very high.

Blood test for peace of mind if you require this.

[stevesteverson]

Thank you for your response. I think reading online may be doing me more bad then good. I've read that many of not most people with herpes do not have any symptoms... which is why I had the concern despite no symptoms. Any follow-up thoughts? Thanks again.

[Fleetwood20]

The correlation between white blood cell count and a herpes infection just isn't there to enable any such conclusion to be made.

Let's stick with symptoms and herpes would produce lesions on the penis (with unprotected sex which you must have had given the chlamydia infection).

I take it the sexual episode in question is a few weeks ago now such that without symptoms a herpes infection is highly unlikely. For peace of mind, an IgG antibody blood test for HSV1 and HSV2 at 12 weeks is conclusive.