Hi all,
I have a question about the reliability of my 7 week negative IGG results. Please read background information below before answering:
Over the past few months, I have had a few unprotected sexual encounters, all of them for just one night (stupid, I know - lesson learned). After my last encounter on May 7, I woke up 2 days later with intense burning during urination - I've never felt anything like this before. The burning went away in about a day, though I have these bumps right by the entrance of my vagina where it burned, that are still here 2 months later - My doctor says these are normal, so I suppose they have always been there, I just have never looked this closely. Anyway, I have been experiencing tingling on my left labia minora on and off for the last few months, and my lymph nodes in my neck periodically swell up a little bit for just a day or 2 randomly. Never any swelling of groin nodes though, and never any typical lesions or sores. It sometimes burns as well, though unlike that first time, it now burns not on a particular spot but rather my whole vulva/vagina in general.
I took 2 IGG blood tests (I'm not sure exactly what test - it was done at Quest) for both HSV 1 and 2, and results are as follows:
5/26/16 - 19 days post exposure (too early, I know)
HSV 1 - .04 negative
HSV 2 - .10 negative
6/24/16 - 6 weeks and 6 days post exposure
HSV 1 - .09 negative
HSV 2 - .13 negative
The IGG values have increased for HSV 1 and 2, but only minimally over the 4 weeks. I know variation is normal and they are all very negative still. If such burning and tingling were indeed prodromes or outbreaks, wouldn't it be likely that my IGG value would have increased a bit more over the 4 weeks between the tests?
Lastly, I was on antibiotics for acne for a few months, and experienced many yeast infections during this time (I'd say at least 5 YI in 4 months). Most of them were pretty minor, but still noticeable. I finally decided to treat myself with 3 day monistat under my doctors suggestion, and the burning did subside after about 5 days, though I didn't have any of the white discharge I usually got during yeast infections. I still feel the tingling sometimes, just on the one labia. Could the tingling and burning I have been feeling be nerve damage from the multiple yeast infections? Maybe a sort of vulvodynia?
Please please please, any information you have on this will be very helpful. Does it seem like I might have genital herpes? Or do my low IGG values at almost 7 weeks point to a true negative?
I am 22 and have just gotten into a new relationship, so I want to be confident in my status. Also, I have tested negative for all other STD's.
Thank you in advance,
Me