Can Shingles Cause A Positive Herpes Test
Herpes and shingles are clinically distinct diseases with different symptoms and modes of transmission.
Can shingles cause a positive herpes test. That s the whole point of vaccines to create a strong response that will in turn hopefully force the body to create anti bodies. The headache and feeling rundown is caused by your immune system white blood cells attacking the shingles vaccine. Hence the question on the form i signed before the vaccine. If that s the case doctors will likely seek confirmation of the diagnosis by ordering lab tests in addition to conducting a physical exam.
Both the infections shingles and herpes are caused by viruses. Varicella zoster is part of a group of viruses called herpes viruses which includes the viruses that cause cold sores and genital herpes. Once you re older that same virus can wake up and cause shingles also called herpes zoster. It usually appears as bands of blisters in back or chest.
Some agency and or pharmaceutical company knows that this can happen. Shingles causes painful rashes in any part of body. The public should be informed before taking the shot that it may cause herpes breakout. It is unfortunate that you were tested positive for hsv 2.
Of course the shingles vaccine initiated the genital herpes outbreak. Patients with herpes zoster may mount a transient igm response and would be expected to mount a memory igg response. A blistering rash on one side of. But shingles is caused by varicella zoster virus and hev is herpes simplex virus.
Shingles is more common in older adults and in people who have weakened immune systems. Primary infection can be distinguished from reactivation or reinfection with vzv igg avidity testing. It gives you a rash too but it s often more painful than itchy. Because of this shingles is also known as herpes zoster.
Though it s not common in some cases you can have pain or stinging associated with shingles without the rash a condition called zoster sine herpete. In addition i didn t realize that epstine bar virus is a herpes virus and i had ebv in my early 20s.