if you tested negative for herpes and your gf was properly tested and also came back negative, unlikely this is herpes going on. The reason I say unlikely instead of definitely not is because even the best blood tests still miss 1 out of every 10 hsv1 infections so sometimes you can still have that and not test accurately for it. did your doctor offer any other suggestions as to what could be going on?
grace
Hi Grace,
He said it could be Molluscum Contagiosum, but after my research it doesn't appear to me that that's the case. I thought it might be a yeast infection because I've been taking antibiotics for my skin for a while now and I read it makes me more susceptible to those kinds of infections.
I know I can get false negative but I've read that after 3 months the odds are low. Given my very low antibody count I thought that may be even more true.
Even if herpes had stayed dormant for 3 months and gave me a false negative wouldn't it at least show more of a immune system response in way of the antibody count. IE .7<.89 as opposed to .1.
Thank you for responding.
when the herpes igg results are negative, the actual numeric results are actually meaningless. You could give two blood tests at the same lab at the same time and they could run the test together and you could get a .2 on one and a .9 on the other. It has to do with the way the test is ran, not your bodies response to infection.
at this point I recommend seeing a dermatologist. urologists are more for "plumbing" issues than they are rashes.