cold sores, ulcers, cracked lips...

I have all of these, and they have been occurring regularly over the past 6 months or so. I've taken Zovirax and Blisteze/blistex for the cold sores, but they only work a bit and they come back very soon (like in a couple of days).
The pharmacist says they're caused by stress/being run down.

For the ulcer (which the pharmacist says is caused by the same reason) I've used bonjella and for the craked lips blisteze and excessive amounts of vaseline. But they all come back.

Can anyone recomend something, as these are really irritating and are starting to have a serious affect on my day to day general hapiness..seriously lol

Could it be that the only way to permanently stop this is to end the stress/being run down, rather than just using products? And if so, how???
Thanks!

Reply 1

a_t

16

You should be using vasaline everyday before you sleep or your lips just get dry again

Reply 2

red_Rose

1

Firstly you want to avoid acid in the mouth so keep away from fruit juices and make sure your using a mouthwash like cordosyl or listerine on a regular basis. Next i recomend taking vitamin C or a mulit vitamin tablets and getting pleanty of bananas and dark green veg.

Vaseline seems to make my lips worse, use some blistex relief cream as well as the intensive moisturiser.
http://www.blistex.co.uk/intensivemoisturiser/
http://www.blistex.co.uk/reliefcream/

I really cant help you with the cold sores as ive never suffered. I suggest you manage to find half an hour to an hour every day to chill out listen to music or something. Making sure you drink 2l of water a day and get some exercise and non take away food.

Reply 3

Lucy_88

10

use aciclovir for the cold sores. for the ulcers use adcortyl. use carmex 4 the cracked lips.
My work here is done.....

Reply 4

Fleece

15

Sounds like you're majorly run down.

How's your diet?

Reply 5

jonny_stevens555

OP

red_Rose

Firstly you want to avoid acid in the mouth so keep away from fruit juices and make sure your using a mouthwash like cordosyl or listerine on a regular basis. Next i recomend taking vitamin C or a mulit vitamin tablets and getting pleanty of bananas and dark green veg.

Vaseline seems to make my lips worse, use some blistex relief cream as well as the intensive moisturiser.
http://www.blistex.co.uk/intensivemoisturiser/
http://www.blistex.co.uk/reliefcream/

I really cant help you with the cold sores as ive never suffered. I suggest you manage to find half an hour to an hour every day to chill out listen to music or something. Making sure you drink 2l of water a day and get some exercise and non take away food.

thanks a lot - really useful. im using the mouthwash but irregularly, now i know it matters so ill make it regular. I'm only using the relief cream, but i looked at that link for the intensive moisturiser and it looks as though i should be using that too.

As for the chilling out, well its spending time relaxing and getting behind on my incredulously large heap of work that I have to do (10 a level retakes in january) that stresses me out the most. But you're right, I think its key to fit that in somehow.

Lucy_88

use aciclovir for the cold sores. for the ulcers use adcortyl. use carmex 4 the cracked lips.
My work here is done.....

thanks - ive never heard of any of those, would you know if they're available without prescription or anything?

Fleece

Sounds like you're majorly run down.

How's your diet?

I don't know actually, but i dont think its good. I eat very little during the day and have two quite large dinners. The dinners are usually healthy, with veg and no bad prodcuts used, but my concern is during the day. Is there anything healthy that you know of that I can carry with me and have on the go? Actually ive been meaning to find out, is dried fruit as good as the real thing. It seems common sense that its not, but whats worse about it?

Also, does anyone know of a good amount of time to sleep per night. Recently Ive got about 3 hrs per night - i know thats not good but what is good?

Reply 6

Lucy_88

10

yeah they're all available over the counter (well they are at boots at least cos i work there)
carmex is just a lip balm in a little yellow pot but i find it the only thing that works for my lips and it makes them all tingly.
i think the ulcer stuff is calledl adcortyl orabase and it heals the ulcers instead of just numbing it.
Aciclovir is in zovirax.

Reply 7

toddlers crossword

12

8 hours sleep a night is generally recommended i think (heehee lol I'd better go to bed pretty sharpish if I want to get MY eight hours!)

As for healthy foods you can carry around with you...an apple, a little tub of grapes, a cereal bar, one of those little boxes of raisins...some ideas

ps - i suffer from coldsores as well, i know how they can get you down :frown:

I use some coldsore cream that my dad gets, i think it has aciclovir in it. Just try to apply it as soon as you feel that first little telltale 'tingle' or soreness I guess...as the earlier the better.

but i think the underlying problem may be being rundown and lack of sleep, it certianly sounds like it. Perhaps you could buy some cds of relaxing classical music to help send you to sleep, I know when I used to listen to my violin music when I was little and I was out like a light! Also if your mind goes crazy and you keep thinking of stuff that you need to do when you're trying to sleep (I dont know if this is a problem for you but it might help) - keep a notebook by your bed and write down anything you need to do and things you're worrying about to try and get it out of your head.

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