Blood work negative but Im still worried - Herpes Message Board

Don dada · 09-24-2003, 05:37 PM

I had unprotected sex with a chick and 2.5 weeks later I had painful urination oral thrush and a very small rash in my pubic region.

I was put on antibotics.

While on the antibiotics my skin and eyes started looking really unhealthy and very itchy. Vision became blurry and thrush became worse. My muscles and joints ached. My body tempature was consistentley low (96.7-97.2)

I felt good for a few days then it hurt to urinate again and I was put on Antibitics for over 2 weeks. (felt like crap and it still hurt to pee). My skin (especially my penis) got really sensitive. I starte noticing the "paper cut" things. They were not actually cuts but they looked like they could have been)

At the 6 week mark I had a HIV and Herpes test done. Both came back negative. I have to go back for another HIV test in November or December.

I was check by 10 doctors who all said that I did not have herpes. But I wanted to be tested and on blood testday the doc said that He saw no symtoms of a current outbreak and ran a "IGG" test.

the test had a "Less than .9 is negative for anti-bodies" standard.

My scores were : HSV-1 = .08
HSV-2= .04

I talked to a STD doc today and she said that a IMG test should have been run as well.

I called my doc and he said he would have run the IGM if he saw symptoms.

I also read that "immunocomprimed" people may not produce enough anti bodies to have an accurate test. Could the antibiotics depleted my immune system to the poin where I couldnt produce enough anti-bodies?

confused20 · 09-24-2003, 09:11 PM

I hear everywhere that that testing for IGM is pointless as this test is very inaccurate. I think u should be comfortable with ur IGG results but if ur still having symptoms u should keep getting it checked out. Try testing for Herpes again in 2 months.

jba112279 · 09-24-2003, 09:38 PM

i know what you going through. I am having some crazy symptoms but 3 tests have all come back neg!! I had the herpeselect igg bloodtest which from what i understand is next best to the western blot. (like 97% accurate). as far as the antibody count, i thnk that some people, like 1%, do not build-up enough. time is important some people need to wait as long as 6 mos. before a blood test will show positive.

mountainscene · 09-24-2003, 09:57 PM

IgM antibodies are short-term and generally last a month or so. After that time, the IgM's begin to disappear and the IgG antibodies begin to be produced. However, as a rule of thumb it can take 12-16 weeks for the IgG antibodies to be numerous enough to be detected.

You probably should have had IgM (due to it only being 6 weeks) as well as the IgG but it truly sounds as though you do not have herpes. To ease your mind, wait until 12-16 weeks has passed and test again. You can do so on your own through the internet.