Can some please explain HSV 1 Infection and HSV 2 seropositive as these were my results. I have never in my 40 years ever had a cold sore. I have never had a mild or severe OB. No symptoms ever.....
That's how your results were presented? Sounds more like an odd diagnosis than your actual results. Were you not told any numbers? What test did they do? Ask for a copy of your results.
Anyway, that would seem to indicate that you're infected with both types. Infected is infected and seropositive means your blood is positive for it, so also infected. It's possible to be a carrier without recognised symptoms.
About 80-85% of the people with HSV1 and HSV 2 have never had a symptom and they don't know that they are positive until a partner gets infected and/or they get tested. One in four women has HSV 2, and something like 80-90% of the general population has HSV 1 (but this can manifest as oral or genital herpes, so you can pass HSV1 to someone's genitals through oral sex).
However, with your test this means you tested positive for oral and genital herpes, which ultimately means that you are a carrier but you are a lucky one who doesn't get any symptoms (but you still can pass it on to your partner). The person who passed it on to me says he didn't know he had it since he never got any symptoms, however, I still got infected and I get mild symptoms. You might even have had a symptom once, perhaps you thought was a pimple, that you didn't know was HSV2 or HSV1. It can also be highly contagious (as I didn'y have sex with the person I got it from, only genital contact, but I still got HSV2).
Whatyour results ultimately also means is that you need to inform any future partners that you have tested positive for these (you can always get another test, igG to be sure). One of the reasons HSV1 and 2 gets passed on as much as they do is that there are a lot of asymptomatic carriers who don't know they have it, so they don't inform their partners and they pass it on. Some people (only about 15% who have HSV1 and 2, even know they have it). Since you are an asymptomatic carrier you most likely do not know who you got it from, unless you have been regularly tested after each partner (and the antibodies take several months to build, so this means a few months after each partner, given you haven't been with others in that time frame).
I see from your other post that it was by IgG. You should still ask for a copy of your results, so that you can check your index values.
I've been tested yearly for everything including herpes. I've been with the same man for years. I took the IgG test and I've had a retake the results came in today. I've never had a mild symptom pimples or nothing. But at this point I've got to learn how to live with this and move forward. He knows because he's the first person I looked at.
My results are on my chart there were no values or index available. I ask for them she told me the test didn't show them. My testing was done with Mayo clinic in Jacksonville Florida. Should I try to contact.
Yeah, what I am learning about this is it is a weird virus. I too had been tested each year, and always my tests were negative. In fact my last BF was my last partner and that was over 5 years ago. I always was in long term monogamous relationships (less than on one hand by my mid-30s). I made the mistake of getting intimate (no sex) with the wrong person I guess and I ended up getting HSV2. I think it is the stigma of this virus that is actually worse than the virus itself.
Like FelisCatus has suggested, I would ask for a copy of my results and would go over them with the doctor.
Another possibility is that the man that you are with is a carrier and you contracted it from him. You could have been with him 10 years and never have caught it (it is something like a 4% chance annually of catching it with a partner who has it) , but you happened to be sexually intimate with him at a time when he was asymptomatically shedding. Just because you have been with him for a long time and just now catching it does not indicate infidelity, rather it just indicates that you had sex during a session in which he was asymptomatically shedding (as apparently must have been what happened to me. I engaged in fooling around with a guy who says he doesn't know he has it and he was asymptomatically shedding. He too needs to get tested. Sucks, but like you, I am now learning how I must live with it.
meaning your partner needs to get tested, as he may be a carrier if you have been tested every year and just now have contracted it.
You can try. Some places don't divulge the exact number, only something like >5, but they should still have an index value if you were tested by HerpeSelect, for example.
I remember your case, by the way. It was the one that made me mad at your partner, lol. Is he still refusing to do the proper test? It's true that he could be a long-time carrier and you only got it now, but I also recall you saying he recently cheated, passed on trich, did a useless test as proof he's HSV negative and won't co-operate any further, which are all big red flags...
Yes that's me! I asked for the test and never received. However he's still trying to be with me and claiming he's not positive. That's definitely a red flag for me!
He claims he has been tested and his results were negative. I asked to see the test and have yet to see it. However he's still trying to be with me which draws a red flag for me. I have done everything I'm suppose to do and would never jeopardize another. I posted my story in another discussion you should read it.
Why don't you tell him that for you to even toy with the idea of being with him again (even if you have no intention to!), he needs to do the IgG test first and show you his results.
I've said everything you could imagine. We are no longer together and we are not in the same home any longer. The fact that he tried to have sex with me let's me know his test was positive or that he OK with catching it.
Before the moderator stepped in, I was trying to tell you to just go online and order an hsv1 and hsv2 blood test. You will go to a reputable lab they will draw your blood and you will discreetly get your results with numeric values via email. I found one site that charged around $40 for this service. Many of these doctors offices are disorganized. The fact they only told you you are positive is ridiculous. If you have a low positive number this could be a false positive. This was my case with hsv2.
Oddity's suggestion is good. If the lab won't tell you your index values, you can test elsewhere, even online, and get your index values that way (but maybe check first that they will give you that info). If you recently tested at the same place as previously and were always negative by the same tests until now, then that would seem to indicate that something has changed. I would still want to know my index values, though. Were you previously negative or positive for Type 1?
Yes I negative from my knowledge....I
I do want to know index values....would that help me to know how long I've had it? Do you think I'm a carrier?
Thank you I appreciate that information.
Unfortunately, the window period for determining that is rather short, so probably not in your case. Helps to also have a suspected first outbreak at the time, too, then the person can be swab and blood tested simultaneously to find out, instead of having to go back for another blood test months later.
Everyone who has herpes is a carrier and infectious. However, having said that, if your IgG index value for Type 2 is a low positive, especially if you have existing Type 1, that should be followed up and reconfirmed.
I just had another test done last Wednesday and got the result on Monday it still says i'm positive. So really I thought it must be accurate.