Should I get retested for Herpes?

[carefullyconfused78]

I recently went back to the doctor's office for a IgG test because I was told by a former partner that he may have HSV2 last year. I never had an official breakout but shortly after I started getting leg pain and sacral pain and the following month after coming back from vacation I got viral meningitis. I researched and found that nerve pain is associated with Herpes and that viral meningitis is also. I had a test done about a week or two after being told last year and it was negative but since I have done a lot of reading and found it might just not have been showing up then. I went again last week and was just told I'm HSV 1 undetectable and HSV2= 1 just 1 and my IgM is 2.01 last year the IgM was 1.86

[gracefromHHP]

Yes, odds are that herpes would've been detected in the csf if it was causing your meningitis.

You are testing negative for herpes.  Odds are you really don't have it.

grace

[carefullyconfused78]

Ok, so I read my medical record from when I was hospitalized Aug of 08  which was a month after I thought I had been exposed and a few days after coming back from vacation and the lab results on my CSF which was tested for both HSV1 and HSV2 and both were undetected. Would the Herpes have been detected at that time even if it was only 4weeks after exposure? I did find it very interesting that the doctors that treated me all dictated that I had been diagnosed recently through my OB/GYN office and so that it was likely a Herpatic meningitis. The interesting part of it is that I never said such a thing. I was in so much pain and didn't go into much detail except to say that I thought I might have been exposed the month before and that I had been experiencing vulvar pain, sacral pain, and leg pain but not that  had been confirmed HSV by anyone. I guess I will ask my ex to get tested and see if he shows positive for it because he never got tested we just looked up the symptoms and saw that it could be related and just took it as it was due to Herpes.

[gracefromHHP]

also when they tested your csf for meningitis, they would've sent off herpes cultures which evidently did not come back + or they would've told you.

grace

[gracefromHHP]

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/248394  is a prior post by HHH that shows why the igm shouldn't be drawn on you. totally disregard the results. they are meaningless.

A hsv2 of 1 is still negative.  

grace