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What is "Unclear Results"?!
I have a man who I trust for sex and we have known each other for years. After he visited me for a sexy weekend we decided he should go in for an STD checkup. Not thinking much of it until a week later the doctor called him and told him that his HSV2 results were unclear. Neither of us understand what this could mean and the doctor told us to wait 2 MONTHS before he gets tested again! I am no saint and was seeing a boy for a few weeks before the sexy weekend with my friend and gave the boy oral sex but the relationship didnt last. And I know my friend slept with another girl a few weeks before visiting me and he told me they were safe but I now I dont know how safe. Either of us could be to blame here. Anyway I have been in knots since we found out and do not know what to do. And I honestly dont think i can make it two months worrying constantly. So what could this unclear result answer mean? I have done tons of research and since I havent had any symptoms and he hasn't either I just dont know what to make of this. I do not know if his "rating" on the test was <.09 but I assume it was in that range to be unclear.
I guess what I want to know is honestly how much I should worry. When people get results like this how often do they have HSV2? And I know I will wait 6 weeks before I go in because I heard that is the earliest time for results but if my results are unclear as well, what should I do?
Im sorry for rambling I feel like damaged goods. I am stressed beyond belief and I wish there was someone who could talk to me about this. Please help if you can. Thank you.
I guess what I want to know is honestly how much I should worry. When people get results like this how often do they have HSV2? And I know I will wait 6 weeks before I go in because I heard that is the earliest time for results but if my results are unclear as well, what should I do?
Im sorry for rambling I feel like damaged goods. I am stressed beyond belief and I wish there was someone who could talk to me about this. Please help if you can. Thank you.
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well screw everything because i think i found another one and this one looks more like a lesion... i cant believe this could be happening. i already made an appointment with the doctor and am going in tomorrow at 9 am.. and im freaking out.. i dont know what to do..
Ok, so no more talk of dirty or clean.
And regarding my testing, i went in and had bloodwork done and they told me i should know by the end of the week.
And i have a question for grace mostly, i know i have been staring at my vagina for the last few days hoping i see nothing, but yesterday i noticed something odd. It doesnt seem to be herpes by any standard form of how they appear but it is a small red area. it is right outside my opening and at the edge almost of where hair grows. wierdly enough this isnt freaking me out because it doesnt itch, burn, or hurt to the touch. I almost think it is an ingrown hair, but im not sure. If it isnt an ingrown hair and does not begin to reproduce like herpes should or would, what could it be? I have looked online at pictures of what it could be and it doesnt seem to be a cyst. Nor a rash because it is just in that spot. I do work out daily and got off of my period recently so am wearing pantyliners, could this just be an irritated area? its very small though.. I know you dont want pictures and im sorry for my graphic description but what is your take?
And regarding my testing, i went in and had bloodwork done and they told me i should know by the end of the week.
And i have a question for grace mostly, i know i have been staring at my vagina for the last few days hoping i see nothing, but yesterday i noticed something odd. It doesnt seem to be herpes by any standard form of how they appear but it is a small red area. it is right outside my opening and at the edge almost of where hair grows. wierdly enough this isnt freaking me out because it doesnt itch, burn, or hurt to the touch. I almost think it is an ingrown hair, but im not sure. If it isnt an ingrown hair and does not begin to reproduce like herpes should or would, what could it be? I have looked online at pictures of what it could be and it doesnt seem to be a cyst. Nor a rash because it is just in that spot. I do work out daily and got off of my period recently so am wearing pantyliners, could this just be an irritated area? its very small though.. I know you dont want pictures and im sorry for my graphic description but what is your take?
Generally speaking and as a piece of advice from one to another. Ask to see their results. Also let's change the terminalogy. Because someone may have an STD doesn't make them "dirty". The use of the word clean is flawed highly in the sense that you are clean because you shower/bath/whatever it is that girls do.
Regarding your testing. Knowing your status after your last partner is going to be helpful. At this point if appears you have gone 3 months without any encounters from your ex-boyfriend. I would say testing now will tell your status from that point if negative. Though you won't know much from this current partner until you have 3 months past him as well to find out if the virus was transmitted.
I hope we are getting things taken care of now.
Regarding your testing. Knowing your status after your last partner is going to be helpful. At this point if appears you have gone 3 months without any encounters from your ex-boyfriend. I would say testing now will tell your status from that point if negative. Though you won't know much from this current partner until you have 3 months past him as well to find out if the virus was transmitted.
I hope we are getting things taken care of now.
ok.. well i dont know how the information got mixed up.. Probably because the doctor was never straight with my friend and laid out the details of which tests he was getting and their results.. but now even i am a little confused.. and thouroughly frustrated..
BUT to talk about my previous partner, we had dated for a few weeks in early may and had discussed std testing and we both had said we had gotten tested and were clean. and then had sex at the end of may. when we had sex the condom fell off inside me and we got the plan b and took care of the whole pregnancy scare but i never thought twice about std's. After after a few more successful tries with a condom my school year was over and i went home and he went off in may to do work in a different town as me and i went to visit him once around late june..?, and i was on the pill because we had decided to be official so when i visited we didnt use condoms because the reason the condom fell of in the first place was that he was very well endowed. after the first visit i came home and got either a canker or cold sore.. either way i was worried so i got tested for hsv1 and 2. hsv1 positive hsv2 negative. When his job was over we were together for a few more months then split. I havent gotten an hsv test since but had done other std tests which were negative.
does that help?
BUT to talk about my previous partner, we had dated for a few weeks in early may and had discussed std testing and we both had said we had gotten tested and were clean. and then had sex at the end of may. when we had sex the condom fell off inside me and we got the plan b and took care of the whole pregnancy scare but i never thought twice about std's. After after a few more successful tries with a condom my school year was over and i went home and he went off in may to do work in a different town as me and i went to visit him once around late june..?, and i was on the pill because we had decided to be official so when i visited we didnt use condoms because the reason the condom fell of in the first place was that he was very well endowed. after the first visit i came home and got either a canker or cold sore.. either way i was worried so i got tested for hsv1 and 2. hsv1 positive hsv2 negative. When his job was over we were together for a few more months then split. I havent gotten an hsv test since but had done other std tests which were negative.
does that help?
had you waited 3 months after you had last had sex with your prior partner and you are sure that herpes igg blood testing was done when you tested? herpes isn't a part of routine std testing hence why I ask that specifically.
if the hsv2 igg was negative, then hsv1 wasn't affecting it. Hsv1 causes false positives, not false negatives.
if the hsv2 igg was negative, then hsv1 wasn't affecting it. Hsv1 causes false positives, not false negatives.
genital prior to this partner? that would be back in september with a boyfriend i had. and i got tested for everything after we broke up and came back clean.
And i agree, this answer from his doctor is very odd. I dont understand why this is so hard to interpret and why they even werent straightforward with us from the beginning. and also why they still cannot give us a numerical result. All they have told us is that swab result was negative and didnt have a numerical result and the blood work for hsv2 was also technically negative ("<.9") but they want us to wait and retest because the hsv1 may be interacting with the number but they dont know for sure.
yea i didnt know men could get the gardasil shot but he had one done when he found out men could
And i agree, this answer from his doctor is very odd. I dont understand why this is so hard to interpret and why they even werent straightforward with us from the beginning. and also why they still cannot give us a numerical result. All they have told us is that swab result was negative and didnt have a numerical result and the blood work for hsv2 was also technically negative ("<.9") but they want us to wait and retest because the hsv1 may be interacting with the number but they dont know for sure.
yea i didnt know men could get the gardasil shot but he had one done when he found out men could
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The challenge we face here is having 2 things against us. No results and time to accurately test hasn't been met. If this is an inital infection for him then we risk having a low positive right now being a true positive.
The other challenge with HSV-1 people when they get HSV-2 sometimes their outbreaks are more mild than say someone who just got infected with HSV for the first time. Not trying to scare you but give you the facts. I know this isn't comforting at all but this is the reality to it.
The other side of self checks is this. Yes you should look once a day not all the time in the bathroom. But even the Herpes experts visually misdiagnois someone half the time with either having it or not. This is why we say be seen by the professionals when you have symptoms. But yes if you were to have an outbreak it should have been within 2-20 days. Typically 2-14 days but we do say 2-20.
Believe me when I say this. I know what you are going through. You get bored one day go look at my oh 50 first posts here a year ago. You will see I was more freaked out then you. Spent over 1000 dollars on testing, exams, and freaking out. So I know telling someone to relax isn't always going to help but it often doesn't hurt to try and talk someone down from the fear. Any STD has a bad rep. The first thing people think about when they hear STD is something along the lines of you sleep around a lot. Reality is that isn't the case at all. HSV isn't going to dominate your life if you don't let it. The virus isn't going to kill you and hey if you ask me its a way to find out a potential partners dedication to the relationship. There is medicine to help control outbreaks and viral shedding. But none the less I know people fear what they don't know.
My theory for HSV education is that it isn't a deadly virus. It's not going to kill you or destory your immune system. So for some why bother with it. We know more about HIV/AIDS because of the impact to human life. How many people know about Strep or Staph infections? Not many. But HPV, HIV, Syphilis, etc we go through sex ed classes at school (not sure your age but) and in my class we covered every major STD but HSV. People think you put that condom on and its going to stop everything. It doesn't stop HSV because its shed from the skin where an outbreak is at or the virus viral sheds from. Lot's of skin touching in sex. Thats my theory on it. You yourself probbaly wouldn't have spent the time to look into much had your partner not tested the way he did.
I try to help those that I can. I don't have much of a life since my girlfriend and I split. So its either the forums, driving around, spending time out with the few friends I have, or volunteering at the hospitial.
Let us know what happens with your friends appointment. I hope he doesn't mind you sharing with us.