coldsores
if you use a (new) hard skin file (low grade sand paper type) and gently rub/remove one layer of skin on the tinger area when a cold-sore
is just starting to form cold-sores will not take a hold and grow like a shankerous STD on your lip.

I must warn the above will feel like you have pulled a layer of skin off your lip for one day.
But it will heal in about two days instead of a week. I use this trick all the time.... works like a charm.

Sorry if this sounds like a tip but its a a low level surgery of sorts depending on your pain threshhold.
(Cov Boy, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 14:42, 4 replies)

you get cold-sores that often?
(Turtlenuts, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 18:05, closed)

Or...
just take Zinc supplements. Only had 1 since I started taking them a few years ago.
(Megamoss, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 19:40, closed)

i get them occasionally when i feel run down/stressed
same as most folks i guess.

I only get a couple a year but people who do get them notice the tingle when they start flaring up.

Good to read other tips too
(Cov Boy, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 1:15, closed)

Triple threat treatment
When you feel the tell-tale tingle:

1) Start using an aciclovir based cream such as Zovirax

2) Take lysine tablets

3) Wrap an ice cube in a tissue and hold it on the spot where you felt the tingle for a few minutes, a few times a day

Do this for a few days or until the cold sore is gone.

I get one or two cold sores a year, and doing this seems to reduce the severity and duration (probably mostly due to the aciclovir - the others are more placebos, really).
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 23:20, closed)