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F*cking cold sores

  • 30-04-2016 09:45PM
    #1
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭


    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.


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  • #2
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭Duff


    Nah, don't get them at all.


  • #3
    jimmy180sx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭jimmy180sx


    Try pink eye


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


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


  • #5
    ruahead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭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


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


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  • #7
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,891 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    few minutes on a sunbed might help


  • #8
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    The best solution is an emergency head amputation.


  • #10
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


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


  • #14
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,867 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    "Dirty whore mouth"


  • #16
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    "Dirty whore mouth"

    :eek:

    :(


  • #18
    matchthis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    ebbsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,450 ✭✭✭ebbsy


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


  • #20
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭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!


  • #21
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,712 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭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!


  • #23
    tinyk68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭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 😉


  • #24
    El_Dangeroso
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    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.


  • #25
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭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..


  • #26
    cyning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭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!


  • #27
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    not yet wrote: »
    You should get one..they are great laugh altogether..

    I do enjoy laughing at ding-dongs :p


  • #29
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    mud wrote: »
    I do enjoy laughing at ding-dongs :p


    Even the big ones..?


  • #30
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    not yet wrote: »
    Even the big ones..?

    They're all hilarious to be fair.


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  • #31
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


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