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Cold sore help Lysine

Submitted by Ela Spire

For those people who get them chronically, the over the counter supplement "Lysine" will help prevent getting them. You must take it every day for it to work!

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L-Lysine Comments By: V.

Proven healing booster. Also works for "below the belt" cold sores (aka: herpes).

I took lysine for a month and have had no sores since Comments By: anon

I used to get cold sores monthly. I took l-lysine for 4-6 weeks about 18 months ago and have not had one cold sore since then. My son was also prone to cold sores, did the same and has had no recurrence yet. (I bought 2 jars of lysine tablets and one is still unopened as we haven't needed it!)

I agree Comments By: May-c

I have used L-Lysine everytime I felt one coming.

No help at all... Comments By: H

I have suffered with coldsores all my life & have tried many a treatment. I was recommended Lysine at my local health shop. I started taking it every day in hope that it would help, when in fact it made it worse. I suffered from one coldsore after another after another.As soon as one cleared another appeared.As soon as I stopped take the Lysine & my latest coldsore cleared, they stopped.

Lysine Comments By: anon

Fantastic!!I use it everytime I feel a cold sore coming on.My son use to lick or touch his cold sores,they use to spread onto his face, until my friend told me about Lysine-within a week all the cold sores were all gone

Lysine is the Sh*t Comments By: Scott

I have been granted the gift of the fever blister since I was a little lad. A doctor told me about "Lysine" and that I should take it as a pill twice a day. It works, but now I just drink 100% whey protein from GNC. It has 1770mg of lysine per serving, and a lot of other good things for your body. I stoped drinking it for about a month due to no money.. and guess what I now have a fever blister.. great

l-lysine and peanuts Comments By: kitschy

the lady in the health food shop told me that often cold sores are caused by a depletion of amino acids. It took me a long time to discover that i got a cold sore whenever i ate peanuts - these must have reduced my amino acids - if i ever get the first signs of a tingle now i take two L-lysine tablets and it usually disappears. If i can't take them quickly and it does turn into a cold sore i use nail polish remover to treat it.

Patience Comments By: LaKenya

taking 3 tablets a day when you feel a cold sore coming on will either prevent it if it hasn't come up yet or shorten your outbreak. taking lysine too often like any other drug your body can build up a tolerance to the medicine.

it works Comments By: annoyed

l-lysine works to help the healing process, and if you take 1000 mg a day its suppose to help eliminate them, with me it did not eliminate them but it did reduce my outbreaks and since i take it on a daily basis when i do have an outbreak it seems to work alot faster