Phillymale
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1 minute ago, Bootsychootsy said:
To my knowledge testing a herpes sore is way more accurate than a blood test. There's more risk for false positives etc with blood tests.
Okay I see. Well isn't the fact that I have sores kind of a giveaway that I have HSV?
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@Flowerteacher55I don't know of any previous infection of HSV 1 and i have never had a cold sore. It was an IGG blood test.
I haven't been intimate with anyone since first sore because I wanted to get test results back, although I did masturbate occasionally. I didn't think I was particularly rough but maybe because there had recently been a sore. I didn't notice any prodrome symptoms.
Im from south jersey and moving to philly soon. Have fam there and all.
Thanks for the info.
@BootsychootsyBy the time I was able to get an appointment the sore was kind of healed so we just did a blood test. What do you mean it will be a more accurate result? What would be more accurate?
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So to preface this Im still waiting for my doctor to call and review my results with me, but the blood work was posted online and I saw that I was positive for HSV-1 with a 12.50 H value (so well above the positive value threshold. Annoyingly she's had the results for days now and I still haven't heard back from her, but whatever. I went into the doctors pretty sure I had HSV-2 due to a previous sexual partner telling me they were recently positive and I had a sore on my penis like a week after we had sex.
Is it possible for me to have already had HSV-1 and something about contact with my partner made a sore show up? I confirmed that they are positive with HSV-2 not 1, so how did I get HSV-1?
The original sore cleared up about 2-3 weeks ago but I am now seeing a grouping of a few more sores. Is this my first OB or a continuation? I'm trying to be patient for my doctor to call me back, but I feel like I should be on medication sooner rather than later.
I'm defeated, confused, and annoyed all in one.
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Confused and annoyed Male with HSV-1 G
in Just found out I have herpes
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@Flowerteacher55 Thank you so much for the inspiration and positive words.