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Complementary Medicine / Re: Severe recurrent cold sores please help!!
« on: 06/02/2016 15:22:21 »
I just want to share that I also have had the issue of recurrent sores in my mouth, nose, ears and inside my head ... I dont know where, but I read a couple of years back that taking L-Lysine every day would help reduce the flares and shorten them. The instruction was 1000mg daily and 2000mg if you suspected a flare around the corner or if you ate anything with caffeine or had nuts, specially peanuts in any way (apparently peanuts trigger flares and for sure I have been able to confirm that myself). I found the L-Lysine in walmart, very cheap by the way and started inmediately using them. Since then, my flares cut down from having them every month to having a flare every 6-8 months. If I am under unusual stress or my defenses go down, I will have more flares but they are way shorter than the typical 3 week flare that I used to have. So hey, I hope this helps somebody out there cause these cold sores or shingles or whatever they are, are viciously evil. Also I recently walked into a walgreens and say they have a chicken pox vaccine offered. I wonder if that would also help since all these things belong to the same family... wish you guys, and me, the best!