Let’s Talk About It. Zap That Cold Sore FAST!
May 21, 2013 by alysha
We’ve been having some great discussions on our Facebook page on how to get rid of these cold sores fast, and we always get SO MANY great ideas!
Have you ever woken up to a very important day, just to feel a pesky cold sore forming? Oh NOOO!
They always show up at the worst times, don’t they?! If you’ve ever had a cold sore you know that they can be very painful, embarrassing, and downright annoying!
{Please excuse my ridiculous cold sore face impression.}
It was brought to our attention that we should make actual posts with these suggestions for readers to be able to locate and reference easily in case of emergency. 
Take a look at just a few of our FB friends’ suggestions!
Thanks to these tips, I’ve tried Abreva and LOVE it, and I even gave yogurt a try! {I’m not sure if the yogurt actually worked or if it was a combination of things.} 
Thanks for coming to my rescue gals!
You can get Tea Tree oil (another name: Melaleuka oil), here.
Have more suggestions to add or agree with the ideas already mentioned? PLEASE add in the comment section below. We’d love to have a great list handy, right here on the site!
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Thanks for your help ladies!! I love that we can help make eachother’s lives just a bit easier by sharing our idea’s with one another.
Hopefully we’ll all be cold sore free in no time!
If you’re not a HDS FB friend, you should be! We have great discussions like this all the time! Next up to post, Shelley had an emergency involving permanent markers and a leather couch! Ouch! Luckily our FB pals came to her rescue and she was able to get the stain out! How? Stay tuned…
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Im 12 and just got a cold sore this morning.I have tea tree oil at home,should i try it? i have this other cream that used to always work when i put it on when they were only coming up but i didnt notice it. I have them all on my chin too. What should i use that is cheap?
If you are smoking,and your getting cold sores,then that would be the problem
nail polish remover! definitely helped me last time.
When I get a cold sore, I use herpecin, abreva, and take lysine pills. Someone told me that licorice works too. Actual licorice powder not anise. You can rub it right on the sore and apparently it works wonders! Also, I heard to mix baking soda and milk and rub it on the sore as well.
Put bleach on a q-tip and apply to cold sore! It goes away within hours! !! It really works!
I used ice to numb and inhibit the virus during the prodormal stage (and for relief and swelling when blisters were present), toothpaste mixed with salt to dry out the blisters once popped (nail polish remover also works), heavy doses of L-Lysine throughout the presence of the sore, Vaseline or Lysine+ to moisturize during the healing stage. My prodormal stage lasted one day, blisters to ulcers and healing on day 2, healing and hardly noticeable and easily covered with makeup on day 3 and I’m sure they’ll be almost entirely healed by day 4! It’s good if you can prevent blisters in the prodormal stage, but 4 days from start to finish is amazing in my experience. Especially considering I only got two blisters instead of my normal 5 – 9 using this method.
Lysine!!!! I used to get cold sores horribly. My whole lip would swell up and pains would shoot to my ear!! They were horrible!! I started taking a Lysine everyday. It is an over the counter vitamin. I have only gotten one in the past year and it was tiny!!! Highly recommend taking it!!
You can also rinse your mouth out with salty water or even mouth wash I use oragel and it acually worked gone in less than 2 days and also make sure your lips aren’t chapped have Chapstick handy at all times
Garlic is our go to cure for a cold sore. At the first little tingle, we grab a piece of raw garlic, cut off a piece and rub it directly onto the skin. I rarely have an eruption now unless I am somewhere and don’t have easy access to the garlic.
My friend has a cold sore and we’ve been trying to get rid of it for a very long amout of time and it will not go away. We need help i think im getting one to!
My friend and I have cold sores and we’ve been trying to get rid of them for a few days now we need help ! were are 12 years old.
Me and my friend have cold sores and we’ve been trying to get rid of them for a few days now. Our moms haven’t ever had a cold sore so they don’t know anything about them. We’re only 12 so there’s nothing we can do much. Please give us some advice we want to get rid of them by tomorrow.
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I started getting a cold sore on the bridge of my nose 2 years ago at the age of 38. I think someone have it to me when they kissed my nose.
The first time I got it, I had no clue what it was and burned the crap out of it with a hair dryer. The doctor didn’t get enough of a sample for the test, and by the time I found out she dropped the ball, I had no more sample to give. It looked HORRIBLE.
The second time, I really didn’t do much and went through all the stages. Looked like crap again.
The third time, I knew it had to be a cold sore and started with the ice at the first tingle. It soaked the site so badly, that it started getting raw. I tried Campho Phenique and Lysine. Not as bad looking as the first two times, but still embarrassing.
Fourth time, started Abreva with Campho Phenique and Lysine. Less hideous and faster healing. I think it was 8 days.
The current one, I started Abreva with Herpecin, 4000 gm Lysine morning and 4000 at night. I was also exposed to below freezing weather most of the time. I’m on day 4 and it’s starting to heal. Only 3 small blisters that hardly weeped, HARDLY. The skin is flat and starting to heal with minor redness. I had no tingling and absolutely no pain at the site. This time around, you could hardly tell it was a cold sore. My symptoms may have calmed down with each break out, but this is definitely the regimen I’ll be sticking to from now on. As long as it continues working.
Lysine supplements and keeping an alkaline diet. If you eat something acidic (ex- tomatoes), be sure to balance your body’s ph levels by eating something alkaline (ex- zucchini or most green veggies). The virus is triggered by an acidic ph level.
A mixture of raw apple cider vinegar and vitamin E capsules works really well.
help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i need to get rid of a cold sore on my bottom letf coner on my lip help!!!!!!!!!!!!!
help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i need to get rid of a cold sore on my bottom letf coner on my lip help!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE
The BEST remedy to stop a cold sore from forming further is to crush an aspirin tablet and spread the residue on your cold sore. Do it overnight and through out the day. IT REALLY WORKS!
This is going to sound weird… But when you FIRST start feeling it come up..put some aerosol Lysol on a Q-tip And place it on the cold sore. I do this for 5 to 10 minutes 2 to 3 times a day when I first start feeling it for the first two days or so and it will never come up. If it does come up the healing time will be significantly shorter. It even says on the bottle that it kills the HSV 1&2 virus
toothpaste worked for me
my grandma will swear up and down that if you drink a glass full of buttermilk then you will never get them again. I have tried it a few times but cant get more than 2 swallows down before it comes back up.
Spray Lysol onto a q-tip and hold it onto the spot when you feel the first tingling sensation. Hold it there as long as possible. I try to hold it on for an hour longer if possible. Using a new Lysol soaked q-tip when each starts to dry. If your cold sore has begun to develop before you’re able to apply the Lysol, still follow same routine and it heals faster.
Make sure to use the aerosol Lysol only.
I take Lysine everyday to help keep them gone but when i feel one coming on, i ice it immediately. I generously apply campho phenique and toothpaste works great! Rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide to help dry it up. I’ll try some of your solutions! Hope this helps!
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The ice thing really works. I put it on my lips at the first tingle and they stay very small and heal in just a few days.
I have searched the web about a billion times for remedys and treatments. I do this just about every time I get a cold sore. And all I really see is what to do at the first “tingle”. Unfortunately not all of us are lucky enough to catch it that soon. Or what youve tried (ice, etc) just didn’t do the job and your cold sore has turned into a full blown swollen mess that eventually pops and leaves a bright red nasty slimy looking sore. Now it has become a waiting game. Waiting for it to heal. Cold sores on the lips are awful because its hard to keep them dry so that they can scab. ver and heal. Talking, smiling, eating, licking your lips. All make it impossible to heal. A friend of mine told me about camphor cream. (When i went to visit her and had two bloody cold sores on my lips) she said it dries them up fast and cost about 2 bucks. At that point I was willing to try anything! So i ran to the nearest store on my way home (Family Dollar) with the hope that possibly maybe they’d have some…they did. It cost me $1.50. I put it on my lips as soon as I got home and immediately felt relief. Within a couple hours I saw them start to dry up this was around 2pm. It is now midnight and I’m laying in bed, cold sores barely noticeable. I applied the camphor phenol several times throughout the day especially after eating or drinking. I know we would all rather not get them at all and I’ve started taking lysine supplements for prevention. But when we just cant stop one from coming I would 100% recommend camphor phenol!! Forgot to mention this is day 3 of cold sores. Day 2 of the bloody gross slimy stage. Also u can find camphor phenol in the chapstick isle! Hope this helps you as much as it helps me because these things are gross and embarrassing!
I got a huge cold sore the night before I was leaving for a weekend in vegas. I’ve tried everything in the past- abreva, lysene, dabbing the cold sore with hydrogen peroxide, garlic, nail polish remover etc etc etc Nothing seemed to work. BUT this time i tried something different and my cold sore only lasted for 2 days, and it’s now turned into a scab
I let the cold sore dry out instead of moisturizing it with creams. I used a tea tree oil face wash a few times a day that i bought from trader joes. I stayed out of the sun-and made sure that nothing touched the cold sore- not even lip gloss or chap stick. The drying out method worked great for me- hope it helps you too!
L-lysine is the absolute best thing ever. But you have to take it everyday. I take 1000 mg right before I go to bed, and have for probably 5 years. If I take it without fail I don’t get them at all. But if I miss a day there is a chance ill get one. I’ve missed one day and got one the next day, and I’ve missed a day and not gotten one. It’s kind of up in the air, but I have never gotten one if I take it religiously. Best preventative ever. It also helps speed up healing. I will pop like 5-8 of them a day if I get one. Now when I do get them-maybe once every year and a half(used to get them a few times a year)-they are super small. Maybe one blister or two rather than the 5-7 blisters it used to be.
Anyway, I know taking a pill every day sucks- but it’s a miracle pill and its def worth it to me…