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Blood test in the army or national guard

My boyfriend just found out that he has herpes HSV-2 now he is blaming that I give it to him because he said he had blood test all the time when he was in national guard. He left national guard couple years ago and he had only me since then.

I was wondering if std testing in national guard includes herpes or not because he never asked for the special test or anything else besides what they had to test.
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101028 tn?1419603004
the armed services typically do not test for herpes as part of their testing.

do you know if you've ever been tested for herpes before to know your status?

grace
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1174003 tn?1308160819
I can confirm that they do NOT perform IGG testing for HSV in the Army as part of their routine physicals and unit rediness exams.  
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I never had the test until he told me to get the test done. I will get my result on Friday.
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101028 tn?1419603004
what testing did he have done?  did he have a lesion culture of active symptoms or a blood test?
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He had blood test, called Comprehensive STD Panel, It included hiv, hepatitis, syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes simplex virus(1-2), and chlamydia.
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101028 tn?1419603004
ask him to give you his herpes test results to post here - e.g. hsv1 igg 4.3 and hsv2 igg 2.3 or whatever they are so we can make sure he was properly tested and to see if he needs additional confirmatory testing done too.
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It is hcv-2 igg 2.1.
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101028 tn?1419603004
his hsv2 igg is a low positive and needs confirmed with additional testing. At this point get yourself tested and if your hsv2 igg is negative, he'll need to seek out a herpes WB blood test or a biokit hsv2 igg test to confirm his status.

there's a post on the forum onlow positives with more information in it - it's either on the bottom of this page or on page 2 I think since I had just bumped it back up the other day.
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How can I go the the page of low positives? Thank you so much for your info.
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101028 tn?1419603004
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We are living in Florida. How can he get the test? We would like to use biokit. There is no location near by. How? I have no clue... :(
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1174003 tn?1308160819
Does your doctor use quest?  

No need to start a new thread.

You provider can order the test directly from UofW and have them send you the kit have your doctor draw the blood and do the needed steps.  But Quest can do it for you and we have the order code for it.
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I got my result. I am negative on both HSV 1 and 2. My boyfriend's result got to be false.
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101028 tn?1419603004
you'll need to confirm his status with further testing. Unless he's never had another partner in his lifetime but you, you can't assume anything at this point about his status.
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