Suppressive therapy and herpes blood tests

Hi all. If you're on suppressive therapy and get an IGG herpes blood test, can the antiviral medication skew the results, so that it appears you don't have the virus? I was tested in June and received a 1.50 IGM result and negative IGG result...then was tested again in September (only IGG) and received a negative result, but have been on suppressive therapy since July. Any insight here would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Yes, it definitely can. Go off antivirals for a couple of months and retest.

Are you sure anti vitals can influence the igg blood test?

Terri Warren said it can, and she is a herpes expert. My answer was basically a quote from her book.

I believe that suppression therapy can sway (or delay) a positive result for an initial outbreak as the blood test looks for the virus antibodies not the virus.

I don't believe that suppression therapy will effect the results for someone who has had herpes for awhile (like longer than 6 months).

I saw Adrian comment on this and did a ton of research / Terri was advising someone (on the web) who was newly diagnosed to stop suppression therapy before getting tested but did not come out & say this was due to an initial diagnoses....

Side note: I read an article that some HIV positive people can test negative while on HIV suppression therapy. This is a bit frightening as HIV is a killer / but the question was: is a negative test equal to not having it. A quagmire of legal and moral questions

Anyways I'm not 100% sure what the deal is for HSVx....