should I be satisfied?

[compton]

So, after a long time waiting for my results, I finally got them back......My blood test came back negative.

so here's the story. I had sex w/ my gf and a few days later she began to get sore and itchy and all that jazz. She got an appointment with her gyno and he said it looked like thrush. This is fine but the other doctor who saw her to refer her to the specialist said it was herpes, so that obviously concerned us. they ordered a blood test but it came back negative because it was taken a week after infection. we didnt know it mattered at the time. anyways since then I've had 2 painless blotchy rashes on my penis, so this gave us reason to believe that maybe something was messed up w/ us. I had a blood test ordered, (5 months after my only possible chance of infection) and it came back negative. Would everybody else be completely satisfied with this or what? I feel like I should be but I've been reading so much about it lately it's almost hard for me to accept that I don't have it. I really want to know what those rashes would be from also, I'm not at complete relief.

[WaxedWrong]

i would take another test, then if its neg, i would just be carefully and watch my body. if nothings happening, i wouldnt kill myself over it, but i would get tested 1 more time a few months later. your gf as well should have another test, or 2.

then, i would feel alot better accepting the results.

[compton]

ok, just one more quick question. How did all of you guys find out? How many tests and stuff did you g uys have to have done?

[WaxedWrong]

i took 4 test over a period of 8 months before i got a positive result.

[bluefrog]

i had symptoms and 3 pimples; by the time i got to the doc, all signs were gone. he felt that it was NOT herpes. i insisted on the blood work because i had never experienced anything like this before; the visual or the physical symptoms. first time blood work was taken, came back positive.

[luca]

I was test about 1.5 weeks after the beginning of my first ob. It came back postitive. I would wait another month or so and take another test.

[BoxofRain]

Your symptoms sound identical to me and my boyfriends.........never got a blister or anything like it to this day. Back when i contracted this I only got a blotchy rash in my pubic hair region and my boyfriend never had any symptoms and had no clue he was carrying the virus. I got the most horrible (what I thought to be a yeast infection) 2 years ago and it itched so bad and burned and I had no clue what it was, went to doctor thought it was an external yeast infection, "Didnt LOOK" like herpes but my smart nurse practitioner thought to get a blood test for herpes just in the off chance it was and thank god she did. I was positive,......had blood work done while the "rash" was still very pronounced. Sometimes it doesnt show up in blood work for whatever reason and may not show up for a long time, but you still could very well have it. Especially since you have had it reoccur more than 1 time and it was the same "blotchy rash" as you described that came back another time. I wouldnt be satisfied with the negative results.....especially since your g/f got itchy and diagnosed by a specialist that it was herpes..........Id assume you have it and keep getting tested and watching for any other signs or symptoms that are even slightly abnormal below.....you and her.

[WTH]

My 1st check for H was in 2003, I was experiencing pain, thought maybe I nicked myself shaving. Went to the doctor, he said it looked like H gave me treatment, did cultures, everything came back negaive. Did some blood test, all negative.Since then, I decide I would get a STD check every year when I go in for my "well woman exam", I figued since I'm there, better safe than sorry. I have had cultures every year ALL negative. Just last month experienced pain AGAIN, went in again. Doc says "that's H" and this is me :neutral:Well I came home cry and cry and cry. Took my medication he gave me, inform my current partner, cultures came back negative:confused:I was very confused, asked for a blood test, I wanted a "double" comfirmation of the negative result, since the doc said it could be a false negative. Blood results came back Positive:( According to my doc he thinks I've had it all this time and the blood test I had back in 03 was for everything else BUT H. But my OBs are very mild, no fever, no body aches, nothing like what I've been reading. I just hope they continue to be this way.