thank you!

Lipemia -- cloudy blood plasma due to elevated triglycerides, cholesterol, etc -- is known to interfere only with blood counts (especially hemoglobin level) and chemistry tests, such as those to evaluate liver and kidney function. It is not known to interfere with any other kinds of tests, including various antibodies and other tests used to check for infectious diseases, and the lab's warning about it really doesn't apply. They just have a boiler plate statement as a CYA legal strategy. You can be sure all the negative results of your comprehensive STD test panel are accurate and reliable. (It takes up to 12 weeks for HSV IgG testing to become positive, but this has nothing to do with lipemia.)

The exposure described was very low risk. In absence of symptoms, I would have advised that no testing was necessary. The risk was too low, and some of the tests not very accurate anyway (especially herpes IgG testing); and others are zero risk for the events described (hepatitis B and C, for example). In the future, I would advise avoiding such comprehensive STD test panels after any particular sexual exposure. With rare exceptions, the only recommended testing would be blood tests for HIV and syphilis and urine for gonorrhea and chlamydia (which you don't mention, but probably was included, right?). But in any case, your negative results were reliable regardless of the lipemia. You don't need repeat testing of any kind.

I hope these comments are helpful. Let me know if anything isn't clear.

HHH, MD

I also tested for Gono and Chlam aso negative. Just to make sure then, now its been over 3 months and since no symptoms you dont recommend testing again. STD wise?  you mean asking again regarding the high fat on the blood test correct?

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Thanks for the thanks!