Thank you for your valuable resource.

I'm hoping you can help me out with a handful of questions and concerns I have.

My fiance was diagnosed with HSV-2 in February of this year, through a culture taken from what she believes was her first outbreak. Since February, she has had two additional outbreaks. Before we became sexually active together, well over a year before her diagnosis, I was blood and urine tested for all STDs, including HSV-1 and 2, and tests were negative. After her diagnosis, I was blood and urine tested again for everything, including HSV-1 and 2, and again the tests were negative.

Two weeks ago, I had an outbreak of some sort in the genital area. The first doctor I visited, the day I noticed the outbreak, said it looked like either herpes or molloscum. He treated the outbreak with liquid nitrogen, but wanted to rule out HSV with a blood test. The test again, through blood and urine, came back negative. The second doctor I saw, one week later, when the sores were painful and not diminishing nor spreading, said it looked like herpes.

The second doctor indicated that if I could have been a carrier of the herpes virus without ever having had an outbreak. She also said that without having had an outbreak before my blood would have no antibodies by which a blood test would reveal the HSV. In other words, the doctor was suggesting that someone could have HSV but that a blood test would offer a false negative if I'd never had an outbreak. (She indicated that cultures were a more reliable tool in diagnosing HSV, but that there was no culture to be taken from me at the time of that visit. She recommended a blood test again in a couple of months, suggesting that, if this was a herpes outbreak, my body would generate sufficiently-readable antibodies within that timeframe. Is that correct?)

I'm wondering if that's true/possible and if it's possible I received so many false readings from blood tests (four in the past three years). I'm wondering, more importantly, if it's possible that I gave my fiance herpes despite having clear blood tests and no previous outbreaks.

I would greatly appreciate any and all information you might provide on this sensitive subject.

Thank you very much,