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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.

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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?

[Deleted User]

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.

[Deleted User]

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.

[Deleted User]

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!

mud

failinis wrote: »

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

As far as I know anyway?

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

So horrible. Worst.

baldbear

L-lysine tablets. Try them when you feel one coming on.

failinis

Just checked online to clear any confusion

They are caused by the herpes simplex virus. There are two kinds of herpes virus: HSV-1, which is usually not an STD and occurs on the lip, and HSV-2, which usually causes herpes genitalis, which is essentially an STD in the genital area.
Both viruses can be transmitted by saliva, body secretions or oral sex.

http://europe.newsweek.com/herpes-cold-sore-std-89411?rm=eu

So you can get a non STD one on your lip, but you can give a non STD lip one to someones groin if you go down on them (who would let anyone down there with a cold sore anyway!)

Once you get the lip version it stays inside you, and flares up. You can't ever "get rid of it".
Just flares up and down.

mud

failinis wrote: »

Just checked online to clear any confusion

http://europe.newsweek.com/herpes-cold-sore-std-89411?rm=eu

So you can get a non STD one on your lip, but you can give a non STD lip one to someones groin if you go down on them (who would let anyone down there with a cold sore anyway!)

Once you get the lip version it stays inside you, and flares up. You can't ever "get rid of it".
Just flares up and down.

Yeah it's a balls and they're so easy to catch. Yock.

mud

Uncle Ben wrote: »

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

Olive oil is a good alternative. Seems to keep them moist for longer.

not yet

mud wrote: »

Olive oil is a good alternative. Seems to keep them moist for longer.

Would you ever stop with the duuurty references,

esforum

I use cream when I feel it coming, usually keeps things manageable. If that doesnt I rip them off, hurts like hell but doing that and then using the cream stops it reforming fully.*

*I am aware they advise against this but when you get a bad one, it makes you miserable.

Leogirl

cbyrd wrote:

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

+1 for tea tree oil.

Cold sores are a b*stard, look rotten, feel rotten+ everyone just cant stop looking at it!!

not yet

Many years ago lived next to a guy who ended up with stroke like symptoms when the virus doubled back and went into his brain...true story that.

Antar Bolaeisk

mud wrote: »

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

Yep, basically once you've got mouth herpes, it's for life.

Mine only flares up during severe weather changes, periods of high stress or when I'm really run down.