Shameless Care Podcast
The Shameless Care Podcast delivers honest, sex-positive conversations about sexual health, STI testing, and relationships—without fear or shame. Hosted by the founder and a practicing medical provider, it’s where real talk meets real medicine.
Shameless Care Podcast
Are Herpes Tests Accurate? The Truth Everyone Gets Wrong.
Everyone says herpes screening tests aren’t “accurate”… but is that actually true?
In this week’s podcast, we break it all down: specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value, IgG versus IgM — everything you could possibly want to know about herpes simplex virus antibody testing (and probably a few things you didn’t know you needed).
If you’ve ever wondered why these tests are so misunderstood — or why people panic over results that don’t mean what they think they mean — this episode will make everything finally click.
Oh, and of course: our dirty joke of the week