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HOW DO I GET RID OF A COLD SORE?
ok so im desperate here. im 14 going 2 have my 1st kiss on wednesday. it is currently sunday night so i have 3 days to get rid of this cold sore. it is almost gone! you cant pop it because it looks more like a scab now. im taking about 4 lysine pills a day (thats how many you can take) and 2 little bottles of the liquid lysine. i am using every medicine i can think of on it. lip balms, liquids, creams. and i put hot tea bags on it. ive had it for a week or maybe 8 days now. please give me something that will work :)thank you so much for the advice <3
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Coldsores are herpes. Ususally the HSV-1 strain or oral herpes.
Coldsores are highly contagious and non-curable.
The peak times to be contagious is 2 weeks before a breakout and 2 weeks after a breakout has cleared.
Your sore is just now clearing off if it is scabbing. You're still highly contagious.
Be nice. Skip the kiss. Your boy will thank you for the respect later on.
There's no way to make these sores go away faster than what you're already doing. Take care of your body. It's a disease, not a cold you caught. Sometimes you just have to deal with things like this yourself. It's just a part of life.
If you happen to kiss him and he winds up contracting HSV-1 from you then he can sue you for bodily damages since you are well-aware of the coldsore outbreak being herpes now. I wouldn't risk it. Not at all.
"Yeah...I'd really love to get a kiss right now but I have a coldsore healing and it's really contagious so...I was thinking...maybe you should owe me one in a couple of weeks? (wink, smile)?"
Be cutesy. He'll like it. He'll understand you not wanting to give him a life-long disease he'd have to deal with too.
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Best of luck :)
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keep using the cold sore cream, it works the best. don't put too much on else it won't work! also, if it has already almost gone, then it's not really a cold sore anymore it's just healing. so it's easy to cover with make up - i know because i've done it many times!
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