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At home testing, does it work please help

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carla04812
carla04812

So I tested myself with mylabbox for hsv2. At 6 weeks and 4 days. It came back negative.

Should I trust these results? How accurate are they? Has anyone else done at home tests?

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  • faith_
    faith_ carla04812

    Posted

    I don’t know much about at home testing. How is the sample taken?
    • carla04812
      carla04812 faith_

      Posted

      So they send you a lot and they have you put blood on some kind of special paper and send it back in.

      So on the results, it says how they test:

      (The Herpes 2 ELISA IgG test is a qualitative test for detecting the presence or absence of human immunoglobulin G (IgG) class antibodies to HSV-2 in human blood.)

  • faith_
    faith_ carla04812

    Posted

    What makes you suspect HSV? It really depends how long you’ve had it as to whether you’d have enough antibodies present to test positive. 
    • carla04812
      carla04812 faith_

      Posted

      The guy told me after, we did use a condom. And I've been having strange symptoms for like 2 months. No lesions and i did the test at 6 weeks and 4 days from that day.

  • faith_
    faith_ carla04812

    Posted

    I can only really tell you my experience. I had sex and within 3 days, sores showed up EVERYWHERE! I had the skin culture done but the doctor looked at it and pretty much said that it was herpes. Of course the culture came back positive. Then I gave it to someone (not on purpose) and his showed up within a week. So, I would think that by 6 weeks post exposure, the blood test would be accurate. 
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