I am trying to get some clarification on the Western Blot test. I was under the assumption that the University Of Washington recommended waiting 12 weeks from last sexual encounter prior to testing.  My first question is that my partner got the Western Blot as a confirmatory test due to low Igg positive score.  He waited approximately 20 weeks before being tested with the WEstern Blot and he was not taking anti viral medications and never had symptoms I just requested that he get a full panel STD test before we engaged  in sexual activities/sex. His score came back indeterminate and I know the UW says it can either be because he has a protein that looks like HSV or he hasn’t had enough time to seroconversion. That is confusing to me when they first say that waiting 12-13 weeks should give you a 99% accurate score for HSV 2. Also I read a comment by the CDC that was confusing and it read as “in instances of suspected recent acquisition serologic testing within 12 weeks after acquisition may be associated with false negative results. So does that mean that even if he was negative and got the WB after 12 weeks it could still be false?

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Ok thanks Terri all of this stuff with these tests are so confusing sometimes I just want to make sure I’m making the right decision  and spending 1000$ for something that probably won’t change the results doesn’t make sense. 

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I guess nothing is 100% certain but I think we can feel pretty confident that in over the 30 years you have never seen an indeterminate go positive I know that you can’t tell him he is negative  but I think this is a strong indicator that he is especially since he was well past the 12 weeks and that he would be the only one to go positive. Is there any other test he can do that wouldn’t involve waiting 3 months that he could compare to the first blot?  I’m not sure it matters at this point since we did end up having sex but I just hate the “very likely” I want to be sure I don’t end up with something 

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