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I recently got tested for STI's. I texted negative for everything except for HSV2. HSV1 was negative .68 but HSV2 was equivocal .93. I haven't been sexually active in a year and a half and it was protected. I had unprotected sex twice. Three years ago twobyears ago. Two different people. No symptoms or outbreaks for three years. Why is the HSV2 equivocal?
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There's really no definitive answer for this. It could be that you have a protein in your blood that sort of trips the blood tests, or it could be in the way it was read in the lab.
If you haven't had any symptoms, I wouldn't even worry about this. Anything under a 1.10 is considered a negative. Even if yours was higher, anything under a 3.5 needs to be confirmed as it could be a false positive.
If you haven't had any symptoms, I wouldn't even worry about this. Anything under a 1.10 is considered a negative. Even if yours was higher, anything under a 3.5 needs to be confirmed as it could be a false positive.
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Yeah. I haven't been sexually active in almost two years. No symptoms since the first time I've had unprotected sex in almost three years. It was just confusing that it was equivocal. I'll probably test again just to make sure. I'm not gonna stress about it. Thanks
Good luck, and let us know what happens. We're here if you have questions.
I saw that you posted about whether or not BV can give you an equivocal herpes result - it can't. They aren't related at all.
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