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Hi i had protected sex and unprotected Oral in December 2014 with a Virgin and i also was a Virgin. All seemed Normal and find. Then on June 14th i had a really bad rash on my genitals. Theni scratched it and it seemed to create tiny splits in the skin. A little while after maybe a week or two small singular bumps appeared on the base of my shaft (they did not really hurt, a white chalky cream cheese discharge came from them when squeezed) my genitald did itch a lot. I then went to get tested for herpes and they at first gave me the wrong patient ID but quickly changed it and the nurse said he wasnt going to test because he didnt think it was herpes. He tested anyway by doing a pcr swab and that came back positive for hsv2. I then went to talk about the results a week later and how it could have happened and they could not find the results because they had not been filed properly and were for some unknown reason in the nurses room. He then said i definetely had herpes because of the test despite my low risk and history, he dismissed everything i said with a very vague answer and told me if i was to retest then it would also come back positive. I asked him for a blood test but he said in the UK they dont usually do blood tests unless you are a pregnany women - which seems to be true. Anyway i somehow got him to take blood and agree to test it but by the time i got home i recieved a text from the clinic saying the lab wont process my blood because of the positive CULTURE result when i had a PCR (i can only think that the health advisot that text me dont know the difference. I then developed the same symptoms a few weeks and a month later and had two more tests both of which were PCR's on more fresh sores with lots of liquid and they both came back negative. Can anyone explain this? Im young, careful and smart can anyone help me to what is actually going on?
The sores have now left scarring where they were.
What do you think?
How likely is it that the first pcr is false positive?
When clinics do test for herpes do they often do a viral culture and a pcr together on the same swab?
Due to me being really low risk, do you reckon it was a mistake on the first test?
The sores have now left scarring where they were.
What do you think?
How likely is it that the first pcr is false positive?
When clinics do test for herpes do they often do a viral culture and a pcr together on the same swab?
Due to me being really low risk, do you reckon it was a mistake on the first test?
So would you say i have enough information to put this to bed? A blood test just is not possible to get a hold of in the UK and believe in me ive tried. Saying that a pcr negative is more accurate than a blood test negative seeing as ive tested lesions and liquid from them. What do you think life360?
Thats what all the doctors are saying and due to everything that went on at the first test they say i cant take that test into any consideration so is like i havent even had a positive and then i thought il retest a few times on some lesions down there by pcr to confirm so thats what i did and they both pcr dna test on lesion liquid came back negative on two seperate lesions.
Well would it outweigh it due to my low risk, doubtful symptoms, aswell as the negatives by pcr which due to it being specific would pick it up even if the virus was dead. Not only this but pcr is only 95 percent accurate which research testing is done in std clinics which has a high prevalence of having the virus. Meaning for the average person if you have a positive its either the 5 percent false positive or the 5 percent its actually true meaning there is a 50/50 chance you have it if you get a postive result but you are low risk. This sort of proves that its more likely to get a false positive than a false negative in a pcr of a lesion.
You need a blood test. One positive outweighs 2 negatives. Negatives are not reliable only a positive is reliable.
No i dont think i had a any cultures it was three pcr tests so i had my first pcr which somehow came back positive and then two pcrs from a different hospital after that which came back negative
There seems to be some confusion since the lost the tests so not sure whats going on. False positve with a culture would be due to a lab mix up and since this is an issue, you need to have a blood test to confirm but a positive swab would be considered conclusive.
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