Yes, I would take that as a negative. The QL Real Time PCR Test is their confirmation test, which is awesome that they do that, and yours was negative.
You can move on from this with no more testing.
I got my result back today and it was diagnosed in Quest Diagnostic. The test came back at 0.99 which is still in equivocal range, and it 0.01 higher. Should I worry about the 0.01 increase?
However, quest diagnostic also did a "QL REAL TIME PCR TEST" from my blood, it came back "HSV 1 DNA: NOT DETECTED ; HSV2 DNA: NOT DETECTED; REFERENCE RANGE: NOT DETECTED".
Does it mean I do not have herpes?
I don't know why your doctor told you that you have herpes, because we don't know that.
Equivocal means "we don't know yet", and official test guidelines say that anything over a 1.10 is a positive. As Tontonic mentions, experts think that anything under a 3.5 needs to be confirmed, which you are doing.
If you had gotten a 1.25, for example, you'd have at least an 85% chance of that being a false positive.
So don't worry yet. See what the results of this test say, and we'll go from there.
I'd relax and see what this other test says. 8 post exposure the igG. Should be past the equivocal stage. It's neither pos or neg. Disregard what the Dr said. It may very well be a false pos. Do you have any symptoms of concerns? Keep in mind anything over 3.5 is a pos when testing igG. Upon infection the immune system would recognize and start the antibody process. Meaning they spike up soon after infection. Not much later.