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Rikkeo
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Ok I've been diagnosed with genital herpes with a swab test. I'm not in denial and won't refuse to believe it but can Herpes Zoster (shingles) cause me to be positive? I was only 18 or 19 when I got shingles which sucked ass. The very first time I got blisters was after I shaved my pubic region. I got some ingrown hairs and then they became itchy. I scratched it nice and hard and it became small blisters. I thought nothing of it. It was never painful at all and they were clear blisters. Never did I have a painful discharge and it should have been my very first outbreak. I showed my doctor and she said it's probabaly not genital herpes but I told her to take a swab test. She told me I was positive. Is it possible that having had shingles I could have tested postive for HSV 2 as well? I also had cold soars when I was a kid inside of my mouth.
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- Shingles Cross Reactivity on Herpes ... Hugo
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,342,175Going back 15 or 20 years ago some of the early herpes tests had some cross-reactivity to antibodies produced by other members of the herpes family. Today, that should not be true with any of the modern tests. Was your swab a culture or PCR and if a culture, was it type-specific? There's still an unfortunate tendency for some doctors to do non-specific cultures and then assume type 2 if it's genital. The PCR analysis is great because it looks for viral DNA through Polymerase Chain Reaction and is very sensitive and specific.
Regarding the sores in your mouth.. Those are not too likely to be oral herpes. Oral herpes is generally around the lips and it's not uncommon to confuse canker sores with cold sores, but they're not at all related.
I'm a little frustrated about your percentage results as I've not found any tests that express the results that way.
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This is a reply to # 1,342,252it was a culture and the type was for herpes =(. I wish there was a cure.- Type-specific culture.. Hugo
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This is a reply to # 1,345,377Sorry, I didn't make that clear. What I meant by type-specific was differentiating between Herpes Simplex types 1 or 2. Some less up-to-date doctors or clinics just do a simple culture looking for Herpes Simplex without determining the type even though the type-specific culture testing has been around for a couple of decades. They assume, wrongly, that if it's below the belt it's type 2 while the truth is that about 1/3 of genital herpes cases are actually type 1, usually from the patient receiving oral sex from a partner who carries the type 1 virus as cold sores. An active cold sore is not necessary for transmission, although it makes it a lot more likely.
- Type-specific culture.. Hugo
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- Shingles Cross Reactivity on Herpes ... Hugo
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