Two negative blood tests 10 years after a visual diagnosis. Can I still have it?
To whoever is listening,
10 years ago I had sex with a woman who didn't disclose. The next day, I noticed some kind of rash or small lesions on my upper pubic area that quickly spread to my junk. They turned into larger, very painful blisters/pustules. I had an MD working at my school's health clinic take one look at the situation and say "yep that's herpes." That was good enough for me so I didnt take a blood test at the time. I had a few secondary outbreaks for a couple months, then they stopped forever. After a while the woman confessed to me that she indeed had been diagnosed with GHSV years ago. 10 years later, on a whim I decided to see what kind of herpes I have. My doctor gave me a blood test (A Roche-brand serological assay). It was negative. Non-reactive. I said that can't be right. So we repeated the test 8 years later. Still negative. As a person living GHSV-positive the past 10 years, I started to see some light at the end of the tunnel after the 2nd result. What are the chances that both non-reactive results are false negatives? One would think after 10 years I'd be full of antibodies and would light that test up like a Christmas tree. But I don't know what else those horrible outbreaks could have been?