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what are the chances of a false positive?
I see my gynecologist once or twice a year since I had my daughter. I've been negative for all the routine swab tests like gonorrhea or chlamydia. last year in February I got a new primary care doctor and had to do blood work. I've never been tested for this because apparently doctors don't check for it unless you ask? so I got tested for hsv 1 and 2. 1 came back negative which is oral herpes. I tested positive for hsv2 which means genital. I have only had 1 sexual partner and I've never had a single symptom. The only thing I can think of is sometimes odor but usually only when I'm active and get sweaty a lot. my results were like 10.4 so on labcorp it says it's very hard to be inaccurate. Its been a year and I still feel like falling apart. I haven't gotten a second opinion because I'm scared. Are there actual chances to have this be wrong?
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I am a person who tested positive and yet I had no symptoms. After a divorce, I starting dating but when a relationship ended, I asked to be tested and one time it came back positive. I think just knowing about it made me nervous. I let people know before even going on a date in case things would lead that far. I got one guy who said it didnt matter to him as he tested positive and had never had a break out ever. Here's where I will mention something I learned. A person can have the herpes virus in their body but never break out because they do not stress about anything. The virus usually rests at the bottom, the root of nerves and only rises to the surface when the person is distressed. I had plenty of that with my ex in the form of verbal abuse and later, moving, new jobs and then dating again. My new husband I met in online dating said he too had herpes, but # 1 only, the oral kind. He has never gotten the genital one from me and I have never got the oral one from him. reason is that we are very in tune to how our bodies feel, symptoms for when getting sick and so on. I will tell him when it feels like I might have an outbreak in a couple days. I notice most when wiping after urinating and wiping. The wiping makes some of the skin down there feel sore like I got an abrasion. If you have ever barely scraped knees or elbows before, that is what it feels like when the virus is traveling up to rest on the surface of your skin. It is invisible at the point and this is the point at which a partner can catch the virus because I can guarantee with the pain an outbreak causes that nobody is going to want to have sex. It is even difficult and uncomfortable to sit in a chair. As for time frame, I found out my diagnosis in 2008. Met my future husband in 2009. We ended up living in our vehicle, a van and that is stressful so around 2 yrs later I had first one and about 6 months later, another and thats when I learned about that subtle warning that an outbreak would occur. I can't say that you will feel something, it may be just me but it is true that you are more susceptible if you worry alot or are depressed often or undergoing stress. Just let future partners know and find out how well they know their bodies, particularly if they will feel different right before an outbreak. There are actually dating sites online for people with herpes. I will say that thinking its no problem if you already have it, to have a partner who has it, may be a bit reckless. I myself in wiping in streaks rather than just dabbing when I first felt the abrasion feeling at the exact site of my first outbreak means that I can actually give myself a new outbreak site. The virus pops up in same site where the virus 1st made contact. So I have another site closer to the anus, since I wipe from front to back as females should do to avoid UTI's. In wiping back when I didn't yet know that the virus can be sitting invisible on my skin before the outbreak, meant it was too easy for me to wipe the actual virus when going to bathroom so now I know to dab only at the skin to dry it which you'd do anyways once outbreak is there cus its to painful to do anything other than just dab at yourself. So if its so easy to reinfect yourself at another site, then the same goes for a partner who is a carrier of herpes but has no idea when the virus is traveling about the nerve to rest on the skin. Condoms do little to protect because the outbreaks most often are anywhere on the skin not covered by the condom. So unless a guy has it on his penis, which I haven't heard of anyone I knew with herpes having that issue, it is most often caught from skin contact with a partner. the virus is not in the semen so it can be caught if partner has virus. Funny thing though is that this means a person can pass the virus on, even if the virus sitting on your skin, never goes on to the point of break out but quietly goes back down to lay dormant a while again at the bottom of the nerve. This is why there are a very great number of people who have herpes, because tho they can pass it on, they have never had an outbreak and people assume that if you've never had an outbreak, that you are not a carrier of the virus.
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