Low Positive for HSV-2 after 7 weeks?

[donewaiting]

I had an exposure 7 weeks ago. It was with a nevada sex worker (in a regulated brothel) and we had unprotected oral and protected vaginal.

I've been freaking out about the possibility of STIs, and have been tested clean for everything except herpes. I decided to get a test from labcorp, and here were my results:

Negative HSV1,

HSV 2 IgG, Type Spec 1.66 High
index 0.00 - 0.90 01
Negative 1.09

To the best of my knowledge, I haven't had any symptoms (any were probably due to paranoia, no real lesions to speak of, though there have been pimples which aren't all too uncommon).

Do I just lie down and accept that I have it now?

[Life360_Dave]

yes

[donewaiting]

I know testing is really the only way to be sure, but do you think the likelihood of the IGG value increasing to above 3.5 values to be small?

[Life360_Dave]

fairly confident its false.

[donewaiting]

I'm assuming the likelihood of it happening through oral is low then?

Is it a possibility that the antibody levels haven't risen enough yet since it's only 7 weeks, or are you fairly confident that it's a likely false positive?

[Life360_Dave]

Hi and welcome. Your value falls into a false positive reading and would need another test to confirm this. Wait at least to the 8 week mark as a good indicator but if she did not have any vaginal sores at the time you can pretty much rule out herpes. Your pubic mound area would have been the area more of a risk but pubic hair would act as a barrier to some extent.