F*cking cold sores

mud

I have my third one in six months. I can't leave it alone either, constantly picking at the crust and then bleeding profusely.

Anyone else suffer from "de huuurpes"?

I cancelled all my plans for the weekend because I can't be arsed trying to disguise the f*cker.

I'd love to know where I picked it up. I had one in October when I was in Amsterdam and it left a mark on my face :eek:

I don't freak out when I see someone else with one but when I have one I just want to hide away.

I think mine are brought on by stress.

I had one at a wedding once and in every photo I'm in I have a strategic prop hiding my poor lip but sadly that just made me look like a gowl.

Please share your cold sore stories.

Duff

Nah, don't get them at all.

jimmy180sx

Try pink eye

biko

"Cold sores" are a nice euphemism instead of mouth herpes.
Like "athlete's foot" instead of foot fungus.

ruahead

Take lysine tablets. I find compeed patches great especially at night , more hygienic and speeds up the healing.. I know it feels awful but it will go away and keep on the lysine a bit to ward them off

Do not for the love of God pick at them OP.

allthedoyles

few minutes on a sunbed might help

mud

ruahead wrote: »

Take lysine tablets. I find compeed patches great especially at night , more hygienic and speeds up the healing.. I know it feels awful but it will go away and keep on the lysine a bit to ward them off

I tried a Compeed patch before and all it did was spread the thing around.

Deleted User wrote: »

Do not for the love of God pick at them OP.

Can't. Leave. It. Alone.

allthedoyles wrote: »

few minutes on a sunbed might help

Evil.

The One Doctor

The best solution is an emergency head amputation.

maudgonner

mud wrote: »

F*cking cold sores

Yeah, you don't wanna f**k them mud, you'll end up with herpes on your ding-dong/hoo-haa and that's not a good look.

kneemos

Zovirax,nine quid for a little tube of the stuff though.
Even Vaseline will stop them enlarging I find.Dap of aftershave or perfume will apparently help as well.

failinis

If you keep getting them often maybe your immune system is suppressed?

When I am run down, or a few weeks after recovering from a cold/flu/fever/etc I tend to get them, or sometimes stress?

I second the compeed - I always found vaseline trapped the crap where it was and seemed to give it fuel to get even bigger, yuck.

Fox_In_Socks

Not sure if I ever had a coldsore. Is it a thing that you need to be ashamed of?

SteM

I don't know how or why but this thing works for me

http://m.boots.ie/h5/cat_hub?path=%2Fen%2FBoots-Electronic-Cold-Sore-Machine_1129542%2F&unCountry=roi

Haven't had one come up in 18 months since I started using it.

suicide_circus

"Dirty whore mouth"

mud

kneemos wrote: »

Zovirax,nine quid for a little tube of the stuff though.
Even Vaseline will stop them enlarging I find.Dap of aftershave or perfume will apparently help as well.

I raided my Da's Old Spice earlier :P

maudgonner wrote: »

Yeah, you don't wanna f**k them mud, you'll end up with herpes on your ding-dong/hoo-haa and that's not a good look.

I don't have a ding-dong

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Not sure if I ever had a coldsore. Is it a thing that you need to be ashamed of?

It looks rotten.

mud

suicide_circus wrote: »

"Dirty whore mouth"

:eek:

matchthis

I used to get them when stressed or on hols, with extra sun. Vitamin c helps with the healing process for me anyway. If I'm heading away, I'll up the amount of orange juice I drink to build up the ol immune system.
Used to get them really bad in the sun. Heard about getting some sort of injection that knocks them on the head, but doctor never heard of it.

ebbsy

As long as that's all ye picked up in Amsterdam you should be ok.

mud

Yeah the sun really encourages them. I have a halogen heater in my room and now i'm para that that's what's making this one so bad!

looksee

Just to be serious for a second, if you have a cold sore, don't go near a very young baby, it can be fatal to them.

mud

looksee wrote: »

Just to be serious for a second, if you have a cold sore, don't go near a very young baby, it can be fatal to them.

Yeah part of my plans for the weekend was meeting a new baby so obviously I nixed that plan immediately!

tinyk68

If you catch it early Zovirax is brilliant at stopping it from turning into a monster. I personally found compeed only made them bigger! Other than that I have no help to offer but I feel your pain. I've been getting them since I was ten years old. I kissed the boy next door when he had one. Early lesson in keeping my mouth to myself 😉

El_Dangeroso

ruahead wrote: »

Take lysine tablets. I find compeed patches great especially at night , more hygienic and speeds up the healing.. I know it feels awful but it will go away and keep on the lysine a bit to ward them off

+1 on lysine, clinically proven to help reduce the severity and occurrence of outbreaks, 1g lysine a day should do it.

not yet

mud wrote: »

I raided my Da's Old Spice earlier :P




I don't have a ding-dong



It looks rotten.

You should get one..they are great laugh altogether..

cyning

looksee wrote: »

Just to be serious for a second, if you have a cold sore, don't go near a very young baby, it can be fatal to them.

I had a 10 month old baby that got herpetic stomatitis (first time getting a cold sore). It was frigging awful: she ran constant 40 degree temps for days, we were in hospital, she went into rigors. We came home from hosp on 17 doses of different meds throughout the day. She had over 20 different lesions on the roof of her mouth. This isn't one of these overprotective things in case anyone thinks it is: never ever go near a baby with a coldsore.

Op l lysine and vit c are my go tos for coldsores!

mud

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

+1 on lysine, clinically proven to help reduce the severity and occurrence of outbreaks, 1g lysine a day should do it.

One of my favourite choons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Fx-_7oN5U

I must get me some Lysine.

mud

not yet wrote: »

You should get one..they are great laugh altogether..

I do enjoy laughing at ding-dongs

not yet

mud wrote: »

I do enjoy laughing at ding-dongs

Even the big ones..?

mud

not yet wrote: »

Even the big ones..?

They're all hilarious to be fair.

FizzleSticks

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dmc17

Another vote for Lysine. Only thing that worked for me. Haven't got a proper one for years since I started using it. The second you feel the tingle of one staring to come on, take Lysine supplement and continue for a few days. No more cold sores

mud

FizzleSticks wrote: »

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They definitely work for some people but not for me. It completely exacerbated the outbreak. Getting shivers remembering it.

Just dosed it with TCP and it feels way better.

hairyprincess

mud wrote: »

They definitely work for some people but not for me. It completely exacerbated the outbreak. Getting shivers remembering it.

Just dosed it with TCP and it feels way better.

TCP is the biz. Keep lashing it on

not yet

Funny enough I got them all the time when I smoked and partied hard, which would indicate they are brought on by a low immune system.

Very rarely get them since I gave up the cigs and stopped partying hard, or as I call it...getting old.

milehip

+1 for zoravax, use it as soon as you feel the start of the sympthon. Always get one when ive been working extras hard for a week or so outdoors and the auld immune
system is run down.
Must try ths lysire(sic) stuff aswell.

JustTheOne

Why do they come out on your lip of all places?

Why not your knee or somewhere noone can see?

How convenient.

Uncle Ben

Sitting here whacking vaseline onto my chapped lips. Its driving me mad.

mud

JustTheOne wrote: »

Why do they come out on your lip of all places?

Why not your knee or somewhere noone can see?

How convenient.

Just reading about them and it's to do with a nerve in the area that the virus travels down and then sets up shop 5ever

not yet

JustTheOne wrote: »

Why do they come out on your lip of all places?

Why not your knee or somewhere noone can see?

How convenient.

The virus never leaves you and is in the nervous system. It always comes out at a point of least resistance.

R P McMurphy

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

+1 on lysine, clinically proven to help reduce the severity and occurrence of outbreaks, 1g lysine a day should do it.

Does lysine not cause some other issue though. Kidney rot or liver damage or something like that

cbyrd

Neat tea tree oil on the fcuker. Lots of decent vitamin D and C sleep and don't kiss your kids.

mud

R P McMurphy wrote: »

Does lysine not cause some other issue though. Kidney rot or liver damage or something like that

Say whaaaaaaat?

Are cold sores not a sign of certain (not so serious) STDs? I remember reading this a while back?

Could be nonsense, all the same.

mud

mud wrote: »

Say whaaaaaaat?

Don't mind him. He hasn't been the same since nurse Ratched got a hold of him

mud

Deleted User wrote: »

Are cold sores not a sign of certain (not so serious) STDs? I remember reading this a while back?

Could be nonsense, all the same.

Janey, I don't think so because (a) I have regular STI check ups and (b) have seen kids with cold sores.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Are cold sores not a sign of certain (not so serious) STDs? I remember reading this a while back?

Could be nonsense, all the same.

It is nonsense. Herpes simplex virus type 1 is what causes cold sores. Type 2 is what causes an STI.

failinis

mud wrote: »

Janey, I don't think so because (a) I have regular STI check ups and (b) have seen kids with cold sores.

You can get a variation of a strain of herpes on mouth vs groin or something.

As far as I know anyway?

SteM

Deleted User wrote: »

Are cold sores not a sign of certain (not so serious) STDs? I remember reading this a while back?

Could be nonsense, all the same.

See, this was one of the reasons I hated getting a cold sore. People that don't suffer from them have all sorts of crazy theories about what they are.

Well it seems there may be a connection. I'm on my phone so can't link to sites. If a person with a cold sore performs oral sex then the receiver may get the virus on their genitals. Similarly if a person performs oral sex on someone who has the HPV-2 virus then they may end up with cold sores.

mud

Imagine letting someone with an obvious cold sore go down on you. Puke!