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 Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:17 am |
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| Hey,
Strange question but a very important one for me...... Whenever I spend a lot of time in the sun I seem to get a coldsore, which takes forever to go. I will be spending 5 months in continious sunshine and wondered if anyone knew of anything I could use to prevent me getting them? I have tried using all different types of creams before and during my holiday but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Please please please can someone recommend something. I just want to look gorgeous and tanned in my photos and not wearing a crash helmet to cover my face  |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:21 am |
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Hmm not any of the creams work? Id make an appoitnemtn with your doctor they are bound to have some creams to will do the job  |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:20 pm |
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| Get yourself some Nivea sun protection lip balm, its factor 25 and always works for me. About £5 in Boots, yellow tube. I suffer terribly in the sun and this always helps. If you are going to Oz in their summer beware!! I was out in the sun for about 20mins there and forgot to put it on my lips and I got a coldsore within the 20minutes! But I went straight to nearest pharmacy and they sold me a cream called Vectavir and it was excellent. My coldsore was gone by that evening! And I never get that over here - even Zovirax doesnt work for me! I wouldn't bother going to your GP - unless it is one long constant coldsore you have then it is likely they won't be able to do anything. | |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:49 am |
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| Hi,
I also get really bad coldsores but I went to the doctor and moaned and moaned about it until he prescribed me Aciclovir anti-viral tablets. I now only take them when I feel a coldsore coming on and it stops it dead in its tracks before it really appears. The doc told me that you can take a low dose continually if you get them very frequently - might be worth having a chat with your GP.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:17 am |
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| I have exactly the same problem... sun = coldsore!! I have found when i,ve been on hols if you put factor 25 lip sun screen on it works a dream, plaster the stuff on!! So far that has worked for me. Aciclovir cream is good, you can also get valacyclovir (something like tha) tablets that work to but i,m crap with tablets, i,m always thinking was tha tingle or not a tingle?!
So i say stick to the sun screen!! Good luck!! Cris |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:14 pm |
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| If it's something that happens often, there might be some other reason than sun for it, so ask your Doc, and as you'll be there anyway, ask the good doctor for a nice cream for it :-)
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:22 pm |
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| The creams only work when you first feel the coldsore tingle once the coldsore has appeared it doesnt work for some medical reason - so my mam tells us. But carmex is not only a lip salve but a cold sore treatment as well and if you get the cherry one it has spf 15 i think so its a multi use product!
xxx |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:32 pm |
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| Yeah, a lip balm with a good SPF factor helps, though I still get breakouts anyway.
I bought some of those Compeed patches from boots, approx £6.50. Expensive, but they worked. They don't make your coldsore totally invisible, but you can't see it from about 6ft away with these patches on, and if you're closer you can kind of see it, but nowhere near as bad if you didn't have a patch on. I bought them for a night out. They say you can put make-up on them too, but it just made mine crinkly so I removed it and stuck a new patch on. Imagine my disappointment when I saw them in the £1 shop! I've bought some for when I go to Oz, lol. |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:15 pm |
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carmex is not only a lip salve but a cold sore treatment as well and if you get the cherry one it has spf 15 i think so its a multi use product!
xxx Great advice, that stuff is AMAZING... it smells well nice! And it makes your lips tingly :-) X |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:25 pm |
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So how did you get the old herpes in the first place? You sure it's the sun that brings them on and not the odd summer "romance"?  |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:05 pm |
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Think I caught mine from my mum when I was little. I can't remember I time I didn't have coldsores  Gutted |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:22 am |
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| Hi,
I got several in one go across my bottom lip and one on my top lip while I was in Thailand last summer, a lot of the locals thought it was very amusing and kept pointing, the photos for that week are disgusting!! But to agree with Kim the Compeed patches work really well for me now. Even though you can still see them I've found that they stop them drying out and scabbing and the scab falling off etc, that whole painful cycle, so I'd deffinately recommend them! But I'll deffinately pack some spf lip balm when I go away to try prevent them! xxx |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:56 am |
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| Mate....Not pleasant but herpes (in any of its forms) can easily be managed. You can pass it on so easily. Go to a doctor and explain. I've read that the prescriptions available are much more affective these days. Good luck. Does sunblock help?
W/o sounding like a mother hen, Maybe? Listen to your skin! It's trying to tell you something! Our skin is one of our 5 major organs. Take Care, Whitney Whatever Bay of Plenty |
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