Ditto Kari's post....Herpes is HIGHLY contagious!!!

Use q-tips to apply medication, that way you don't have to touch it.

As well, after it's healed, change your toothbrush. Make sure you don't share towels.

Highly contagious...can't stress that enough! Once you've had it, then it could definitely come back. Abreva or Zovirax (prescription) used immediately upon the first symptom and throughout the course of the outbreak will help lessen the duration of the lesion and speed healing.

Alcohol will only help to damage the tissue further...I have a friend who used Dettol (sp) and basically burns her lip.

I hope your stress levels lessen...get better soon!!

quincy

Hi Kari...My husband gets them and I thought I was immune too. I feared them like the plague and did all the same things you do when he had one....until that dreaded day after 21 years of marriage (in 2000) and the flu hit me...the coldsore and a cough were the first symptoms, then the fever! Not only one but 4 in one and another just above it on the top lip. Took almost 2 weeks for it all to heal, and that was WITH Zovirax...I can't imagine how it might have been without.

I've only had one other since then tho....whew!

I think I'll take your suggestion and purchase Abreva to have on hand for when my husband gets his next one.


Hope....glad to hear you're recovering quickly. Keep the abreva on hand for the first sign of one.

Be well,
quincy