Posted 3/20/2016 5:43 PM (GMT 0)
No idea about the cream, but cold sores have been driving me bonkers lately. I normally only get one about once a year, but I've had 3 or 4 in the last few months. The worst one took weeks to go; in fact I thought it might leave a permanent mark on my upper lip but it is fading now, if not entirely vanished. I'm getting over another one in the bottom right corner, which was cracking and bleeding for a few days. I really hope this is the last of them for a long time.
I use Compeed cold sore patches. It does depend partly on the cold sore and where it is, but for the most part they are excellent and I wouldn't use anything else. They do a really good job of covering up the cold sore, reducing the pain/itching, and stopping you from touching it. They also reduce the risk of you passing HSV onto somebody else.