Cold Sores Post Op??
Not sure how much I can help with this one, but when I start to feel a cold sore coming on I take the generic version of Valtrex, which I get from my dermatologist. They are miracle pills! My cold sores would blister painfully for a week, then take a month or more to heal. Then more time before the scar goes away. When I take Valtrex at the first sign, they never fully blister and heal within a few days. Truly a miracle for me!
Since you already have the cold sores, pretty sure this won't help you this time. But if you get the Rx filled and have it on hand all the time, you can really nip them in the bud.
Since you already have the cold sores, pretty sure this won't help you this time. But if you get the Rx filled and have it on hand all the time, you can really nip them in the bud.
Abreva works pretty good, but it's around $19 per 2g tube these days. I had cold sores once in a while the years before my RNY. But post op, I've not had one cold, one case of the flu, nor any cold sores. I've had 3 flu shots in the past 5 years. DAVE
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Hello. I am not sure if you can take this vitamin post op, but I struggled with cold sores from time to time and they were annoying. One day I asked my pharmestists is there anything that I could take on a daily basis that would prevent them or help them heal. Low and behold she told me to take L-Lysine 500mg and I have not had a cold sore in over a year. You may want to run that past your surgeon its one tablet a day. I hope this helps :)
L-Lysine. It's a natural chemical already in your bodies, in fact, you can't live without it. When our bodies get stressed, our L-Lysine levels get out of whack. When that happens, various viruses energy up, and cause various issues, including the cold sore issue. L-Lysine is not expensive, and you can find it in the vitamin dept at your local grocery or drug store.
Good luck to you.
Good luck to you.
Cold sores are the Herpes Simplex virus, which when it isn't active, lies dormant in the nerve tissues. When our immune systems are taxed, or we are stressed emotionally, or physically, a flare up can occur. With or without meds, most cold sores last 7-14days. The meds help manage the symptoms, not the virus.
It was probably the stress of the surgery and the emotions leading up to the surgery that did it. There probably wasn't too much stretching of your lips to intubate you for the surgery, so I wouldn't think that would be much of a factor.
Not sure if you or all on this post that has had them knows, that you are contagious to other areas of your own body and other people, not only from the time the lesion shows up, but even from before the typical tingling starts. As for getting one in your nose, have you gotten one there before? The virus can be spread to other areas of your body, if you touch the sore and then touch somewhere else. You may have touched your mouth at one time and then inadvertently wiped your nose and transferred the virus. It's also really important not to touch your lesion and then get anywhere near you eyes. It can also get under your fingernails if you are a nailbiter or have hangnails, or sores from dry skin which is more common this time of the year.
Hope you are feeling much better in a few days,
Paula
It was probably the stress of the surgery and the emotions leading up to the surgery that did it. There probably wasn't too much stretching of your lips to intubate you for the surgery, so I wouldn't think that would be much of a factor.
Not sure if you or all on this post that has had them knows, that you are contagious to other areas of your own body and other people, not only from the time the lesion shows up, but even from before the typical tingling starts. As for getting one in your nose, have you gotten one there before? The virus can be spread to other areas of your body, if you touch the sore and then touch somewhere else. You may have touched your mouth at one time and then inadvertently wiped your nose and transferred the virus. It's also really important not to touch your lesion and then get anywhere near you eyes. It can also get under your fingernails if you are a nailbiter or have hangnails, or sores from dry skin which is more common this time of the year.
Hope you are feeling much better in a few days,
Paula