My second post of January is now closed so I have to create this one for a following. You can look at the two previous post since they are directly related.
Like Dr. Handsfield said, I should probably have let it go long ago, but after the indeterminate Western Blot result of December 2013, I have been wondering a lot about my true HSV-2 status. So, I got another (third) Western blot. This was not a convalescent specimen, but a standalone WB. It was exactly 22 weeks after the December 2013 one.
Once again, I got the same result i.e. negative for HSV-1 and indeterminate for HSV-2.
My summary of testing if thus: one quite high positive ELISA, one Immunoblot with a negative result per FOCUS standard but still not the common negative result, one negative Western blot and two indeterminate Western blot. More precisely (in addition, in parentheses, I put in weeks unless otherwise specified, the last three or four times I had sexual activities before taking the first three tests):
August 16 2012: ELISA HSV-1 0.3 HSV-2 4.8 (1,12 days,15 days,6)
September 21 2012: Immunoblot: HSV-1 non reactive HSV-2 specific band
reactive but common band non-reactive (6,7,8,11)
November 8 2012: Western blot both negative HSV-1 neg HSV-2 neg
(13,14,15,18)
December 10 2013: Western blot HSV-1 neg HSV-2 indeterminate
(1,3 (no penetration, genitals might have touched briefly), > 5 months)
May 13 2014: Western blot HSV-1 neg HSV-2 indeterminate
I must say that this uncertainty is very stressing me out and I do not really know what to do and what to say or not say to partners. Could I ask, once again, to get your opinion on the matter? Should I pursue this covalescent WB as suggested per the lab?