Hello Doctors,
I will tell you my sad story, I am a male 21 years old, I had unprotected oral sex twice with a sex worker in 2012, and a protected sex with another sex worker in 2012 as well, I had 5 HSV IgG tests, the first one was after a week from the protected sex, the second one was at 80 days from the protected sex, third one was at 9 months, the last two tests where at 13 months. all the results were the same, Positive for HSV1 and Negative for HSV2, I am just worried about HSV2.
The thing is, I was happy with my results, until I read about the Urine herpes test PCR, I read a thread in Freedomhealth Clinic forum, Dr Jose answered a question and wrote : "Most people have been exposed to one or both types of herpes at least once in their lives. That is why the blood test for antibody serology is not very useful. The most useful test for detection is a PCR test (urine or swab), even in absence of any symptoms." THIS THREAD WAS ON THIS DATE 04-18-2009
Dr Sean and Dr Jose are in the International HIV forum as well, you must know them, and I called the same clinic ( Freedomhealth clinic) and they said that they still providing this test ( Herpes urine test PCR ), and there are so many threads in their forum discussing about this test.
So what do you think Doctors about this test? is it accurate? should I go for it?
Just to let you know that these are my only exposures I had in my life and it was the first time for me to have sex.
Thanks,