how do STD tests work and why do they sometimes give false positives?

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I once took an STD test series for all the typical STDs and everything came back negative….except for HSV-1 (cold sores aka oral herpies). It returned an ‘abnormal’ result of 1.05….not at the level of true positive (1.09 or higher) but not at ‘normal’ of 0.9 or lower. Of course I freaked, had a few days of intense anxiety and suicidal thoughts, then decided to get a second test. This second one came back full normal. WTF? Please explain how this works.

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The root issue is why you “freaked” over it. Saying ur suicidal over it is ur right bc it’s ur experience but just as a reminder… people reading this might also have it n I can’t imagine someone reinforcing a wack stigma is gonna help.

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