I don't believe that I ever told you that I had patients with your exact symptoms who were positive on a swab and test but never positive on IgG.  I have had 10 patients in my career who were swab test positive from herpes lesions but were negative on the western blot.  Your timing on your previous blot was appropriate - you were off meds long enough for accuracy.  You should trust the results.

This is really all I have to say about this - we've gone around and around with the same questions and my answers remain the same.

Terri

This is 13 days post exposure.

I know that's not enough, however, can that indicate conclusively that the encounter from 12. years ago was not Herpes? My doctor claims that because he gave me Acyclovir 2 weeks after exposure (while I had some sort of sores that he did not swab because he said did not look like herpes) that we stopped the virus from becoming latent. My understanding is you either don't have it or you have it forever. But he is saying, it will never show up on an IgG because we took that antivirals and "cured it" and even if I did contract it and the IgG would have eventually became positive if I kept testing, it could go down over time, so 12 years is "too late" to test in a sense. Would I always test positive for it forever? Does any of that make sense?

And if I never got it and this is a new exposure, at what point can I conclusively test to put this to rest? 6 weeks? 12 weeks? 

 

Terri