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Herpes igM testing is a Negative that good?
Hey I'm scared to death. I had 10 seconds unprotected oral sex with a girl a month back. Later I saw some things on my penis that worried me. I through it looked strange kind of like a blister/boil so I put some neosporin on it and treated it like a burn and within 3 or 4 days of treatment it went away. I started looking on the internet and the more I looked the more the thing looked like a blister and therefore herpes. I went in for an igG to soon 2 weeks after exposure and it of course came back negative. So a week later I went in for a igM test (3.5 weeks after exposure), and it also came back negative. The guy at the clinic convinced me that if these two come back negative i'm fine. No prior exposure and no recent. What do you guys think. I was wondering if its worth it to get the igG again a month from exposure, just to be sure.
Hey thank you for your response. I was wondering though how accurate is the IgM testing for negatives? I am still going in for an IgG but I was wondering (for some piece of mind) how common is a false negative with an IgM examination.
Has anyone here had a negative IgM and later been positive?
Hellp
Has anyone here had a negative IgM and later been positive?
Hellp
At this point all you can do is, if this comes back, don't self treat and go and be seen promptly. otherwise get a type specific herpes igg blood test 3-4 months post encounter.
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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.
Millions of people are diagnosed with STDs in the U.S. each year.
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.
