Herpes is quite common and quite a number of people have it. Have you had any outbreaks yet so far? Some people are just carriers with no visible symptoms.

What you can do is to keep your immune system healthy. It usually comes out when your body is stressed and weak, changes in lifestyle, environment, diet may trigger it too. Different people different. But once its in you, you live with it forever. There are creams and supplements to keep the virus under control. For oral herpes, you can just go to any pharmacy to get cold sore cream.

Google how herpes outbreak is like and you'll find your answer. Basically it's a whole lot of blisters which will burst and take a long time to heal. With proper prevention and awareness, you can reduce the outbreak/healing time. Also read on what you should be aware off when you have an outbreak so you do not pass it to others, especially your kids in the future, i.e. no sharing of utensils, towels, toothpaste, kisses on the cheeks, etc.

The one that you bite on your lips is most likely canker sores. It's different from cold sores.

Canker sores are not contagious and very different from cold sores. Cold sores are usually on the outside of your lips. It appears as small blisters then combine to become a huge one then burst.

There is always that risk when doing the test, if you are worried, go just for another test in the future. You might have gotten it way before your recent sex activity also, you won't know. Cold sores are commonly passed down by parents when the kids are young.

Honestly, I've no idea about the STD test. It's best to check with your doctor about that.

Gynae specialist? You're a girl?

Many people live with herpes. It's a life changing event for sure, but you will be fine.

All labs are the same. Just repeat the rest 1- 2 months down the road to confirm.

Actually you go to specialists/doctors/clinics, they will also send it to the labs to do the tests and the lab will send them the results and they will tell you the results.

If you ask me, it's all the same.

in any experiment done in the research, we always go for 3x to confirm if there's any discrepancy.

so, if you are bothered by it, you can always go next month (end of september) followed by nov.

btw, what did they measured exactly?that test results of yours?

erm..isn't that a positive results?  you have this infection before?

Right. What did your doctor say? If you have consulted a doctor regarding this, antiviral medication should be prescribe to you to treat it to avoid frequent recurrence. There's nothing much you can do except  for practicing safe sex with your partner. No vaccines are available for human use at the moment.

Actually, why do you want to go for another testing? to double confirm your 1st positive results?

It is common and not life threatening. But if one can control it, then why not? but then again, it's up to the individual since medication is an alternative.

You can get antiviral medication from the pharmacy. talk to the pharmacist. They may be able to recommend one.

since you want to do both together, get yourself tested towards end of nov.