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Odds of False Positive
I'm assuming this type of question gets asked all the time but I'll ask again:
Had unprotected oral sex and vaginal with the same partner for 7 months. Around the 7 month mark got a large red bump on my upper thigh near my groin (did not have the whitehead/puss), along with three very small zits/ingrown hairs/herpes lesions near it. Partner convinced me it was ingrown hairs. Had the large bump and an ingrown hair/zit/lesion show up again a month or two later (bump in same spot). Like an idiot I did not do any research and assumed only type 2 could occur on genitals so got tested for type 2 and was negative.
Fast forward 3-4 months and couple more ingrown hairs/zits/lesions (but no large bump). Got tested again this time for type 1 and 2. Came back positive for type 1. IgG at 8. Based on some of my research and looking at this forum there is no way that could be a false negative right? I had a little bit of hope because I called the company (stdexpress) about getting retested recently and they no longer offered the type 1 test. Was hoping this was because whichever test they were using was unreliable (no idea what type of test they used). They claimed since over 50% of the population has type 1 and it's harmless they saw no reason to offer the test. Logically and business-wise that doesn't make much sense to me (take people's money if they want to give it to you). Thankfully I did not have any contact with partners besides my ex during this time.
Long winded story, my questions:
Any possibility of false positive?
Any reason to get retested from a different company? And any suggestions for that company?
My ex claimed she was tested "for everything" after every partner she's had and never came up positive for anything and never had any outbreaks. The no outbreaks part I can believe but what are the odds she's been tested multiple times for type 1 and they call came up false negative? She has to be lying right?
I had to be pretty unlucky to get type 1 through oral sex right?
I'm assuming it would be pretty easy to spread type 1 thru unprotected oral sex to a partner who does not have type 1 correct?
Because I have type 1 genitally am I immune to getting it orally now?
I can still get type 2 genitally even though I have type 1 genitally right?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Had unprotected oral sex and vaginal with the same partner for 7 months. Around the 7 month mark got a large red bump on my upper thigh near my groin (did not have the whitehead/puss), along with three very small zits/ingrown hairs/herpes lesions near it. Partner convinced me it was ingrown hairs. Had the large bump and an ingrown hair/zit/lesion show up again a month or two later (bump in same spot). Like an idiot I did not do any research and assumed only type 2 could occur on genitals so got tested for type 2 and was negative.
Fast forward 3-4 months and couple more ingrown hairs/zits/lesions (but no large bump). Got tested again this time for type 1 and 2. Came back positive for type 1. IgG at 8. Based on some of my research and looking at this forum there is no way that could be a false negative right? I had a little bit of hope because I called the company (stdexpress) about getting retested recently and they no longer offered the type 1 test. Was hoping this was because whichever test they were using was unreliable (no idea what type of test they used). They claimed since over 50% of the population has type 1 and it's harmless they saw no reason to offer the test. Logically and business-wise that doesn't make much sense to me (take people's money if they want to give it to you). Thankfully I did not have any contact with partners besides my ex during this time.
Long winded story, my questions:
Any possibility of false positive?
Any reason to get retested from a different company? And any suggestions for that company?
My ex claimed she was tested "for everything" after every partner she's had and never came up positive for anything and never had any outbreaks. The no outbreaks part I can believe but what are the odds she's been tested multiple times for type 1 and they call came up false negative? She has to be lying right?
I had to be pretty unlucky to get type 1 through oral sex right?
I'm assuming it would be pretty easy to spread type 1 thru unprotected oral sex to a partner who does not have type 1 correct?
Because I have type 1 genitally am I immune to getting it orally now?
I can still get type 2 genitally even though I have type 1 genitally right?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Have you ever tested for hsv1 before this?
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No I had not. However I had never had an outbreak before and had a 2 year break between partners. And I dated that previous partner for 7 years. If it came from a previous partner I can't imagine the outbreak didn't occur for over 2.5 years after we stopped having sex or the 7 years we dated.
Genital hsv1 usually has very few outbreaks. I'm skeptical this is hsv1. Most people that have hsv1 got it as a small child and it's an oral infection.
What you need to do is the next time this pops up is get the sores or bumps swabbed and tested. This is the only way to know for sure.
What you need to do is the next time this pops up is get the sores or bumps swabbed and tested. This is the only way to know for sure.
But the symptoms plus the test results seem clear no? What else could it be?
All you can do to prpve this is genital hsv is to get the sores swabbed and tested the next time they show up.
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
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STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
Syphilis is an STD that is transmitted by oral, genital and anal sex.
