I can’t believe OCD kept me from celebrating my birthday today. Well, technically yesterday. I’m so afraid of contaminating myself with my cold sore that I wouldn’t go out and do anything because I wouldn’t wear my hair down or put on makeup in case it spread to my eye. I feel defeated.

I feel you. I spent my last birthday bitching and crying the entire day because things weren’t “perfect” because they can never be and my ideas of perfect are far too out of anyones reach

I haven’t had in a long time because I get social anxiety. It’s hard. I also had contamination fear around cold sores. What I did was took qtip and dunk it into liquid bandaid and then used fresh qtip to put on a concealer. If that would help. I used to get big clusters and at one time four back to back. Take lots of l-lysine supplements and drink whole milk. Look for anything rich in lysine and not arginine.

That will help to heal faster.

Ouch. Yes, google lysine rich foods. You want to take foods that are higher in lysine than arginine. I think I took 5000 mg of lysine pills when I had it. Also if you notice a bump that might become full blown blister, put ice on it. Place it for ten seconds. Then stop. Then repeat again. The coldness will make it go dormant again. I researched so much home remedies. I think this is one good thing about OCD because it’ll make you research like crazy. Lol

For preventive measure, if you get them so often, take 500-1000 mg a day. Also don’t buy abreva. That only helps at a beginning stage and if you Ed the early stage bump then just use ice. It’s expensive and it’s not worth your money. Instead I use lip clear lysine plus cold sore treatment. Put it on as often as you can.

I totally feel you.

I can try the milk and lysine. I’m allergic to adhesive bandages ever since a bad reaction to the glue they used in the hospital after I sliced my hand open. ?

I actually did buy Abreva during stage 2 less than 48 hours ago and now I’m in the scabbing stage.