OMG cold sore vent!

I just started to feel that tingle of a cold sore coming on and I'm SO upset! FH is a GM in a wedding this weekend and we're going to three wedding-related weekend events! I don't want to be walking around with this monstrous cold sore! I hate the way they look and feel! Does anyone else struggle with them?

Typically I use Abreva for them and I just went on their website. They have an 'Abreva reminder' for which you tell them the date of an upcoming event and it'll send a reminder and a coupon for Abreva 2 weeks before, just in case! I just set up a reminder for my wedding date!

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Posted by T E R I

This is going to sound really weird to use on it, but this is what i do and found that it works better and faster than abreva, i put visine on my cold sore when i get one and it works great

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wow! Interesting! Did you read that somewhere? I'd never have thought to use Visine! And it's cheaper!

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Posted by Future Pepper

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Posted by T E R I

This is going to sound really weird to use on it, but this is what i do and found that it works better and faster than abreva, i put visine on my cold sore when i get one and it works great

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wow! Interesting! Did you read that somewhere? I'd never have thought to use Visine! And it's cheaper!

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someone at work told me about it and i figured i would try it and was definitely shocked and happy to see that it worked, now i don't have to spend soo much on abreva

There's a vitamin supplement called LYSINE... as soon as you notice or get the feeling you're getting one... if you take that a couple times a day it gets rid of it before it even comes out, or if it already started, cuts the time WAY down...

I take 2 in Morning, 2 afternoon, and 2 at night (just for the first day or 2 until it's gone), which is more than the bottle says to take, but it totally works for me!

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Posted by 08JulyBride

There's a vitamin supplement called LYSINE... as soon as you notice or get the feeling you're getting one... if you take that a couple times a day it gets rid of it before it even comes out, or if it already started, cuts the time WAY down...

I take 2 in Morning, 2 afternoon, and 2 at night (just for the first day or 2 until it's gone), which is more than the bottle says to take, but it totally works for me!

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thanks so much for the tip! Can I get this anywhere they sell vitamins? I'll google it!

yup, can get anywhere vitamins are sold.. i got mine at waldbaums..

definitely google 'cold sores lysine' to read up for yourself.. lysine is also an ingredient in a lot of topical cold sore creams

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Posted by Future Pepper

I just started to feel that tingle of a cold sore coming on and I'm SO upset! FH is a GM in a wedding this weekend and we're going to three wedding-related weekend events! I don't want to be walking around with this monstrous cold sore! I hate the way they look and feel! Does anyone else struggle with them?

Typically I use Abreva for them and I just went on their website. They have an 'Abreva reminder' for which you tell them the date of an upcoming event and it'll send a reminder and a coupon for Abreva 2 weeks before, just in case! I just set up a reminder for my wedding date!

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I totally hear you girl. I HATE HATE HATE cold sores. I usually get them at or around the time of my period but sometimes it is random. I try to stop them before the break out but it just doesn't work all the time. And once they open it takes so long for them to go away. My doctor had given me something that seemed to work but I don't remember the name of it. Abbreva works well too. They are just so annoying and I feel like everyone is looking at this disgusting thing on my face when they are talking to me.