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You're being silly. I doubt your doctor would laugh you of the office for requesting an HSV test. Now a days HSV testing combines type 1 & 2 into a single test,
by findyoucef 8y ago
You're being silly. I doubt your doctor would laugh you of the office for requesting an HSV test. Now a days HSV testing combines type 1 & 2 into a single test, so if you ever go in for STD testing you would get tested for both. You don't have to have symptoms to go in for STD testing. You keep everyone safer by being tested regularly despite the lack of symptoms. It's not usual not to have HSV at that age, I'm 30 years old without HSV, and my father who was in his 70s when he died had never contracted the virus either.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 8y agoMost STD panels do not include HSV tests though, you have to specifically ask for those. Which is IMO a big part why 90% of people contracting HSV have no idea they have it, in addition to simply being asymptomatic. The typical set doctors look for are HIV, Syphilis, Gonorrhea and something else that escapes me right now.
- marvin 8y agoProbably Chlamydia. Can cause sterility and often doesn't have any obvious symptoms.
- fauigerzigerk 8y agoI didn't mean it quite so literally. The point is that those who do get cold sores regularly would know what it is and wouldn't normally seek treatment or get tested. So that's why I think the people included in that study must be somewhat atypical.