I've read your other posts. First, congratulations on using condoms. Although condoms do not provide 100% protection, they still offer very significant protection and provide a very significant reduction in risk of transmitting the herpes virus.
Also, a negative IgG hsv2 result at 8 weeks is very very reassuring. Additionally, your symptoms are not consistent with a typical initial herpes infection. One, the timeline is not right. No one feels symptoms of herpes with in 24 hours; normally first symptoms of herpes is 3-7 days, sometimes up to 10-14 days, and very rarely up to 3 weeks. The symptoms you describe would make me be more concerned it's a UTI or other infection. Did you get a full STD panel test performed? If not, that is something you should probably do.
While herpes is not impossible in your case, it would seem unlikely just based on:
1. the nature of encounter, i.e. condom protected;
2. your partner was asymptomatic, which probably means he doesn't shed much virus;
3. your symptoms came on too early and are not consistent with an initial herpes outbreak; and
4. you have a negative blood test at 8 weeks.
All that said, I'm skeptical that you are infected from your recent encounter. I think your symptoms are due to something else and you should have full STD panel of tests performed.
I think some of the other posts may have confused matters for you. Just to clarify a few things:
1. There's in no test that can test for exposure to herpes. You either get infected and show positive for a lifelong infection or you test negative. You're either infected or you're not.
2. Also, a negative swab is never ever conclusive. A negative swab just means there is no evidence for the existence of the actual herpes virus on the skin. The lack of evidence could just mean that there wasn't sufficient virus present for the swab to detect. In contrast, the IgG test detects antibodies in the blood that the body normally produces in response to the infection. In most cases, these antibodies will be present by about 6 weeks and be detectable for life.
Stay calm but please get a full STD Panel Test performed.
Good luck.
Got home tested at 6 weeks and tested at doctors at 8 weeks. They both came back negative. How accurate can those results be?