The IgM antibody would only be present for 2, maybe 3 weeks. If this was your 6 month results, then it shouldn't have been done at all. It looks for a certain type of antibody that is only there in new infections. My own IgM was negative when it should have been positive, and positive when it should have been negative. It can cross-react with other herpes family viruses, like the chicken pox, and can sometimes be positive during a recurrence, and it's just not reliable. It is an unreliable test that shouldn't be done on adults. The only important thing is that you are definitely well under the positive range. Some of it is just kind of background noise on the test. It doesn't mean that tomorrow I have less of an infection than I do today or the day after tomorrow. I could test tomorrow, and it might be 7.65, and the following day could be 11.34. I could test today, and the result could be 9.78. First though, the numbers don't mean anything except that you are definitely negative. Ok so ignore the IgM entirely, but I'll get to that in a minute. If it's been more than 2 years since you've had it, and you've had normal paps, you don't need to tell anyone this. Some experts say 90% will get it, some say everyone will. There are no decent tests for men, and since a lot of the time, HPV doesn't give symptoms, men don't often know they have it. If your partner has had partners before you, he's had HPV, whether or not he knows it. HPV is an inevitability of being sexually active now. One instance of a lapse in judgement - or even a few - doesn't define you. Guilt is usually an exhausting emotion, and so you slept with someone you didn't know well, without protection? Lots of us have done that at least once, and it doesn't make you a bad person, or stupid, or any of those things. Is anxiety a normal thing for you? Even if it's just centered on STDs, consider getting help for that. No, you had an IgG at 6 months that was negative. How confident should I be that this was just a fungal infection? Or should I detest with the blot again. I took the igg test at 6 weeks and it was negative and then again at almost 6 months. I would like to assume that since the fungal cream cleared me up so quickly that it wasn’t in fact herpes. But he also told me you can’t just have an internal outbreak. That night I get to my gyno and he said everything looked fine. Looked like the kind i get right after my period. Wednesday i had a little blood after i wiped. ![]() Tuesday less red, glands (or what I think they were) still open but no real pain. I’ve had both irritation and contact derm before but this looked weird. I went to the walk in and that PA said irritation/contact dermatitis, she said if I had herpes I would be on fire. Each of the bumps i had appeared to be on a gland with some redness in that area and others. Monday night it looked worse and like the glands had opened. But the culture for yeast and bv came back negative but still advised me to use and Antifungal cream. She felt I had some discharge maybe it was a fungal infection. I went to a nurse practitioner that I see. So I looked and I had a rash on my right side of my labia Majora. I noticed it on a Sunday night, what appeared to be two bumps, Monday morning I wiped and felt slight irritation. I was with a new partner right after the western blot. I get tested regularly and even had the western blot done last November. Good morning, I have been dealing with std anxiety for years.
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