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| Anyone have some insights or tips to make them go away? I'm too late for valtrex, so that's out. Thought I had this one kicked, all healed up but it decided just to relocate a inch to the left
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Location: The barn...where else? SW Missouri | I use Abreva. The prescription kind just got too outrageously expensive for me. It does a decent job just gotta start it as soon as you feel one coming on. I also start taking L-Lysine when I start getting one. |
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| The only thing that works for me is Zoverax (sp). Its a script but it works! |
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Location: Sperry, OK | SassyPirate - 2014-04-08 9:42 AM The only thing that works for me is Zoverax (sp). Its a script but it works!
This is what I use too. You can also have your Dr. call you in a pill antiviral that will kick them quick. You only take when you start getting one. |
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| Thank you all for your tips! Will definitly go to health food store at lunch and get some lysine |
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Location: Alabama | Denavir - I get the prescription from my dentist. It's expensive, but lasts a long time. If you start as soon as you "feel" it, it often will not even surface. If it does come up, it's gone in 3 - 4 days rather than 8 - 10.
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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere | SassyPirate - 2014-04-08 8:42 AM
The only thing that works for me is Zoverax (sp). Its a script but it works!
I use this also....but if OP is interested in using this med, make sure you have insurance for the prescription. |
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Location: Way down yonder in the indian nation~Oklahoma | Melaleuca oil works great too! Don't have a clue why, but it does!!!
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Location: CTX | I put carmex (the jar is the only thing that works, so not the tube or the stick!) on as soon as I feel the tingling. And I start taking 5 of the lysine everyday till its gone. ( i know thats 5 times the suggested dose but it works!!!)
Had one just last week. Started to feel it Saturday, by Tuesday the sore was gone and had a little cut. By Saturday the lip was completely healed! |
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Location: Texas | I use nexcare it works fast and has a numbing agent. Mine usually go away within a day. |
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| Kathyg - 2014-04-08 11:24 AM
I use nexcare it works fast and has a numbing agent. Mine usually go away within a day.
Is that just the liquid bandaid stuff with the tea tree oil in it? |
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| I just use any triple antibiotic and it completely freezes it from growing. I just use it like a lip gloss. Of course it is nasty and I make sure that I am not licking it, but it is the only thing that has worked for me. Abreva makes mine worse much worse. I have found that the cream triple antibiotic doesn't work and good as the clear on. Butbitbis usually completely gone is 3 to 5 days. |
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| Put a dab of Mylox on it at night! A doctor recommended this to my sister and it helped a lot. |
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Location: Texas | can_chaiser - 2014-04-08 12:32 PM
Kathyg - 2014-04-08 11:24 AM
I use nexcare it works fast and has a numbing agent. Mine usually go away within a day.
Is that just the liquid bandaid stuff with the tea tree oil in it?
No it's for cold sores I get it at wal mart by the rest of the cold sore treatments. :) |
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| uhg cold sores are the worst! i use valtrex/ acyclovir (gengeric) but recently found Orajel™ Single Dose (OTC) to work oustanding at putting a stop to them as quick as/ or quicker than the prescription. |
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| Abreva, camphophenique, and an aspirin a day. |
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Location: Is it Summer Yet? | Blistex in the blue container, put that stuff on like crazy when you feel it coming. Once you have it abreva and keep gobbing it on like crazy. |
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